A performance of a chess game with living pieces. A traditional event since 1954 in Morostica, Italy. The Sultan Mohammed is said to have played the first game at Grenada in 1408. Botvinnik drew with Riumin in 1962 and in 1962 with Smyslov.
ECHESSPEDIA
Quotes of the Day
After an upsetting defeat the best psychology for the next game is a placid draw
Dr. Vidmar
FIDE is now a political organization. And being a political organization, it, of course, means that people in FIDE have some other interests – that is, to sit in their positions for the next hundred years.
Silvio Danailov 2016
Not this time, Mr. Carlsen! (after winning the World Blitz Championship 2016)
Sergey Karjakin 2016
Kasparov doesn’t care about chess, but only about himself and his political goals
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov 2015
” Chess is a sport. A violent sport.”
Marcel Duchamp