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☆ Sexism, Cheating, and Nightclubs: Inside the Dark Heart of Chess
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Rob Price | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +18 min

Socialites are playing chess on "The Real Housewives of New York City." In 1990, according to the US Chess Federation, only 4% of chess players were women. Out in the world, chess' resurgence has been accompanied by a wave of new clubs and events. I made a pilgrimage to the Marshall Chess Club, a 109-year-old institution in Greenwich Village. The following evening, I went to an East Village bar and found a very different scene at Club Chess.

Persons: we'd, she'd, I'd, festers, Judit Polgár, Gary Kasparov, —, Juliana Gallin, Jennifer Shahade, Alejandro Ramírez, Ramírez —, Ramírez, Shahade, Levy, Hikaru Nakamura, Rey, Anna Cramling, Miguel Pereira, Cramling, Nakamura, Bill Withers, Frank Marshall, Alexander Luke Bahta —, athleisure, you've, it's, Magnus Carlsen, Hans Niemann, Carlsen, Niemann, Dean Mouhtaropoulos, I've, Kasparov, they're, Vladimir Kramnik, Chess.com, Kramnik, Fabiano Caruana, Dan Timbrell, doesn't Organizations: Mechanics ' Institute, Housewives, New, US Chess Federation, FIDE, Washington Post, Marshall Chess Club, Chess, The Guardian, New York, whacking, Computer, YouTube Locations: San Francisco, New York City, Berkeley , California, Greenwich Village, hipsters, American, East, Canadian, Romanian, Netherlands, It's, New York, Russian

☆ ‘A Death in Malta’ Review: Lost in a Sea of Corruption
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Tunku Varadarajan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Daphne Caruana Galizia and family. Photo: Paul Caruana GaliziaImagine the corrupt Tammany Hall of old reborn in a sovereign state in postwar Europe—a tiny archipelago, no more, in the southern Mediterranean. Meet murky little Malta, democratic Europe’s notable outlier—not just geographically and linguistically (having the only Semitic official language in the EU) but morally and ethically. And its rule of law, rickety at best, is shockingly derelict for an EU country. This isn’t just the judgment of fastidious outsiders, predisposed to look askance at Malta.

Persons: Daphne Caruana Galizia, Paul Caruana Galizia, Muammar Gaddafi, rickety, Labour Party — Organizations: Tammany Hall, European Union, Labour Party Locations: Europe, Britain, Libyan, Soviet, Malta, EU, Maltese, “

CNN —Millions in India will be cheering on the teen chess prodigy known as Pragg as he takes on Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen for the title of World Chess Champion on Tuesday. Born and raised in Chennai in southern India, Praggnanandhaa took an interest in the game after his older sister, Vaishali, started playing at age 6. Then, in 2016, he created history after winning his ninth round game at the KIIT International Chess Festival in Bhubaneswar, India. Arun Sankar/AFP/Getty Images/FilePraggnanandhaa earned his third international master norm, an achievement handed out for high level of performance in a tournament. Having earned two previous norms already, at the age of 10 years, 10 months and 19 days, he became an international chess master – the youngest ever.

Persons: Magnus Carlsen, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, Fabiano Caruana, Praggnanandhaa, Carlsen, Narendra Modi, Sachin Tendulkar, ” Praggnanandhaa, Vaishali, Andrzej Iwanczuk, “, Arun Sankar, ” Organizations: CNN, CNN Sport, Bloom, KIIT, Getty Locations: India, Baku, Azerbaijan, Chennai, Vaishali, Warsaw, Poland, Bhubaneswar, Indian, “

☆ Dommaraju Gukesh beats Nodirbek Abdusattorov in battle of the teenaged chess prodigies
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Dommaraju Gukesh beat Nodirbek Abdusattorov in the battle of the teenaged chess prodigies at the Norway Chess tournament on Sunday. Seventeen-year-old Gukesh and 18-year-old Abdusattorov could not be separated during the classical portion of the match with it ending in a draw. Gukesh faces Dutch grandmaster Anish Giri in round six on Monday, while Abdusattorov faces the US’ Fabiano Caruana. Gukesh surveys the board during his round nine game against the Azerbaijan team at the 44th Chess Olympiad on August 7, 2022. “It was very similar to the Gukesh game [Nakamura won 3-0],” he said afterwards.

Persons: Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Gukesh, Magnus Carlsen, –, ” “, ”, chess.com, White, Abdusattorov, Anish Giri, ’ Fabiano Caruana, Arun Sankar, Hikaru Nakamura, Nakamura, Caruana, “, he’d, Tari, Wesley So, ” Carlsen, Giri, Carlsen, Tarjei J Organizations: CNN, Norway, Azerbaijan, Getty, Tari Locations: Catalan, Stavanger, Norway, American

☆ Dommaraju Gukesh: Indian chess sensation defeats Magnus Carlsen on his 17th birthday
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

1 and five-time world champion must rank up there among the best for chess grandmaster Dommaraju Gukesh. On his 17th birthday, the young Indian chess star beat Magnus Carlsen in the blitz event ahead of the Norway Chess tournament. After three games of the official tournament, Gukesh sits fourth in the standings with one win, one loss and one draw. Last week, Carlsen won his first tournament since he relinquished the world championship title he had held for a decade. Since then, Abhimanyu Mishra broke the record and became the youngest chess grandmaster at the age of 12 years, four months and 25 days.

Persons: Dommaraju Gukesh, Magnus Carlsen, Gukesh, he’d, Carlsen, Alireza Firouzja, Anish Giri, Wesley So, Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Caruana, ”, Russian Sergey Karjakin, Abhimanyu Mishra Organizations: CNN, Norway Chess Locations: Indian, Stavanger, Norway, Poland, Russian

☆ They've been beaten, trolled, threatened with sexual violence but refuse to be silenced
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Adie Vanessa Offiong | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Ixchíu Hernández had already been the victim of years of online threats -- attempts to humiliate and silence her. Published in April 2021, it reveals: "Online attacks on women journalists appear to be increasing significantly, as this study demonstrates, particularly in the context of the 'shadow pandemic' of violence against women during COVID-19. "Online violence against women journalists is designed to: belittle, humiliate, and shame; induce fear, silence, and retreat; discredit them professionally, undermining accountability journalism and trust in facts; and chill their active participation...in public debate. Ricchiardi-Folwell explains that because of the often-sexualized nature of the attacks, women remain silent about their harassment, which leads them to believe they are alone. Editor's note: This story was originally published in 2021 and updated to reference the latest report by UNESCO.

☆ Media Freedom Faces Threats Even in EU, Says Press Group
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Daniel Michaels | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

People demonstrated in Valletta, Malta, in 2019 over the killing of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia two years earlier. Photo: Guglielmo Mangiapane/REUTERSBRUSSELS—The European Union, among the world’s strongest proponents of media freedom, isn’t doing enough to protect reporters within its own borders, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, an international advocacy group. The group, in a new report, identifies growing restrictions on media across the 27-country bloc and spotlights the murders of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017 and of Slovak journalist Jan Kuciak in 2018, both of whose killings were linked to their work.

☆ Britain, Malta sign deal covering defence, migration
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

VALLETTA, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Britain and its former Mediterranean colony Malta signed a wide-ranging cooperation agreement on Friday covering areas including security and defence, migration, education, health and trade. The agreement was signed during a short visit to the island by British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, who met Foreign Minister Ian Borg. Malta gained independence from Britain in 1964 and the two countries have traditionally enjoyed a close friendship. Britain and Malta have worked together on migration. Malta is on the main migration route across the Mediterranean from Libya to Europe, with many migrants then attempting to carry on to the UK.

☆ Malta to maintain energy prices at pre-COVID levels
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

VALLETTA, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Malta's government said on Monday it would spend 10% of its recurrent expenditure next year to maintain a freeze on energy and fuel prices. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register"Without this measure, economic growth would have been halved. You would have been asking me how many businesses are expected to close and how high unemployment is expected to reach," Caruana told reporters. "Our economic growth projections are still double the European average," he said. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Christopher Scicluna; Editing by Crispian BalmerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Malta demonstrators mark five years since Daphne Caruana Galizia's murder
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

People take part in a protest march on the fifth anniversary of the assassination of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, in Valletta, Malta October 16, 2022. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit LupiVALLETTA, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Demonstrators in Malta marked five years since the car bomb murder of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia on Sunday, two days after two brothers admitted to her killing and were each sentenced to 40 years in prison. Many of those present carried pictures of Caruana Galizia and Maltese flags. She said Caruana Galizia was: "A Woman of Steel, because she was a woman of principle, a woman who could tell right from wrong". No government representatives were present at the demonstration but Prime Minister Robert Abela said earlier that Caruana Galizia's death was a dark episode "that we must learn from".

Deputaţii subliniază că libertatea mass-mediei, pluralismul, independenţa şi siguranţa jurnaliştilor sunt elemente esenţiale ale dreptului la libertatea de exprimare şi de informare şi sunt vitale pentru funcţionarea democratică a Uniunii şi a statelor sale membre. „Libertatea mass-mediei a fost afectată în ultimii ani”, avertizează rezoluţia, iar epidemia de Covid-19 a agravat această deteriorare. O mai bună protecţie a jurnaliştilor, în special a femeilorEurodeputaţii consideră că „s-a dezvoltat un model de intimidare din ce în ce mai extins care vizează reducerea la tăcere a jurnaliştilor”. Deputaţii subliniază că încercările de a îngrădi libertatea şi pluralismul mass-mediei trebuie considerate un abuz de putere grav şi sistematic şi o încălcare a valorilor fundamentale ale Uniunii. Deputaţii subliniază că acţiunile voluntare ale platformelor sunt „necesare, însă în continuare insuficiente” pentru a combate dezinformarea, conţinutul ilegal şi interferenţele străine.

Persons: Ei, Daphne Caruana, Jan Kuciak, transparenţa Organizations: Uniunii, Europeană Locations: Europa, Uniunii, Bruxelles, Uniune

☆ "Europa Azi": Liderii ţărilor UE au convenit asupra distribuirii echitabile şi la preţuri accesibile a vaccinurilor împotriva Covid-19
▼ + stars: | 2020-10-16 | by ( ) tvrmoldova.md time to read: +2 min

VACCINURILE VOR FI ÎMPĂRŢITE ECHITABILLiderii ţărilor UE au convenit, la summit-ul de la Bruxelles, asupra distribuirii echitabile şi la preţuri accesibile a vaccinurilor împotriva Covid-19. Potrivit concluziilor Consiliului European, imediat ce vor deveni disponibile, vaccinurile vor fi împărţite statelor membre, în funcţie de numărul populaţiei. UE LANSEAZĂ PREMIUL PENTRU JURNALISMParlamentul European a lansat azi, premiul "Caruana Galizia" pentru jurnalism, care va recompensa ziariştii pentru reflectarea valorilor UE. Legislativul european a anunţat că, până la sfârşitul anului, va fi selectată o organizaţie independentă care va desemna câştigătorii. Premiul va fi acordat o dată pe an, pe 16 octombrie, în ziua în care e comemorată ziarista malteză.

Persons: Ursula von, . Ea, Von der, Ea, Boris Johnson, Johnson Organizations: Comisia Europeană, Parlamentul, European Locations: Ursula von der, autoizloare, Bruxelles, Regatul Unit, Londrei, UE, Malta

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