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.
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Quotes of the Day
.If we compare Carlsen with Anand or me or someone else, by ten criteria, he will be stronger in eight of them.
Veselin Topalov 2015
I will be World Champion, if not now I will be World Champion later, but of course better now!
Sergey Karjakin 2016
It’s always better to sacrifice your opponent’s men
Savielly Tartakower
Never felt more like singin’ the blues, cos I never thought that I’d ever lose…
Vladimir Kramnik 2017
I understood that through chess I could express myself and chess became my natural language.
Boris Spassky 1995