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LookAtVietnam – The Asian Team Chess Championship, which kicked off yesterday, December 22, in the city of Kolkota, India, is the last event of the year for the regional masters series. Among the contenders competing at the event, …

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Chess masters take part in last 2009 event | Look At Vietnam

Above, Alexandra Kosteniuk, 25, the reigning women’s world chess champion, takes on 34 players during a simultaneous exhibition Sunday at Tucson’s Mast boutique. A Russian by birth, Kosteniuk defeated 30 of the 34 players and played four to a draw in a little less than three hours, going down to the wire with 12-year-old Bryan Hu of Tucson, the last man standing. “The last one was very close …

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Women’s world chess champ visits (Arizona Daily Star)

The lightning kid of the chess world has indeed grown up! But, for Shobha Warrier who first interviewed him 15 years ago when he was a young man of 25, Anand hasn’t changed a bit in the last decade-and-a-half.

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Susan Polgar Chess Daily News and Information: We just had a quiet …