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                                An extraordinary chess match between 17-year-old US champion Hikaru Nakamura and former women's world champion Susan Polgar was held in Virginia Beach recently. Both players executed their moves in separate rooms on demo boards, explaining to the audience their thoughts and their plans – during the game

                                 At the press conference after the Linares tournament Garry Kasparov, the world strongest player and leader of the world rankings for twenty consecutive years, stunned the public and journalists by announcing his retirement from professional chess.


                                The final day in Linares saw exciting, turmultuous chess, with shock losses by the two top seeds. But just as people were about to get to work reporting on the games Garry Kasparov's shock announcement stopped everybody in their tracks. After thirty years of professional chess, twenty at the top of the ratings list, the world's number one has decided to retire from professional chess. The game he lost today against Veselin Topalov was the last we shall see, ever, in serious competition from Garry Kasparov.


                                 Government of India have announced cash awards to chess players who have won medals in International Events



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