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☆ The World Chess Champion Could Lose His Title, and It Might Not Be Close
  + stars: | 2024-11-22 | by ( Dylan Loeb Mcclain | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Never has a chess world championship titleholder seemed as vulnerable. On Monday, Ding Liren, the reigning world champion, will begin a match in Singapore to defend the title against the 18-year-old player Gukesh Dommaraju. His results were far below his previous level and also below the level of what might be expected of a world champion. A month later, in a Chess 960 tournament in Germany, he lost 10 of 13 games. (Chess 960 is a variant in which the pieces on the back ranks are shuffled into one of 960 possible starting configurations.)
Persons: Ding Liren, Gukesh, Ding, Ian Nepomniachtchi Locations: Singapore, China, Netherlands, Germany
☆ The Next Winner of the World Chess Championship Could Be the Youngest Ever
  + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Dylan Loeb Mcclain | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Dommaraju Gukesh, a 17-year-old Indian grandmaster, made history on Sunday: He won the Candidates Tournament in Toronto, held to select the challenger for the World Chess Championship in the classical time control. With that achievement, he became the youngest player ever to qualify for the title match. Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, previously held the record; he became the challenger for the crown in 1983 at age 20. “The way that I handled myself during the event and the way that I played my games — it was really something that I am happy about,” he said. It will be a best-of-14 match, with a minimum prize fund of 2 million euros (about $2.1 million).
Persons: Dommaraju, Garry Kasparov, Gukesh, ”, ” Mr, Ding Liren Organizations: Chess Federation Locations: Toronto, China
☆ Herbert Kroemer, 95, Dies; Laid Groundwork for Modern Technologies
  + stars: | 2024-04-09 | by ( Dylan Loeb Mcclain | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Herbert Kroemer, a German-born American physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for his part in discoveries that paved the way for the development of many trappings of modern life, including high-speed internet communication, mobile phones and bar-code readers, died on March 8. The death was announced by the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was an emeritus professor. Dr. Kroemer’s most important contributions were in the development of so-called heterostructures. They vastly enhance the speed, and therefore the power, of transistors and other types of semiconductors that are the building blocks of all electronic equipment. But by the time he received a share, with two other scientists, of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000, the impact of his work was so enormous, it could not be denied.
Persons: Herbert Kroemer, Kroemer’s Organizations: University of California Locations: German, Santa Barbara
☆ Lisa Lane, Chess Champion Whose Reign Was Meteoric, Dies at 90
  + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( Dylan Loeb Mcclain | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Lisa Lane, an early star of American chess who was a two-time United States women’s champion and the first chess player to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated, died on Feb. 28 at her home in Carmel, N.Y., in Putnam County. Her death was confirmed by the town clerk’s office in nearby Kent, N.Y., which registered her death. Ms. Lane was a late bloomer in chess. Within two years, she had won the United States women’s championship. Wherever she went, people commented on her looks as much as on her chess ability, if not more so.
Persons: Lisa Lane, Lane, bloomer Organizations: Sports Illustrated, Temple University, United, United States women’s Locations: States, Carmel , N.Y, Putnam County, Kent, N.Y, Philadelphia, United States
☆ The Winding Climb to Play in the World Chess Championship
  + stars: | 2024-02-05 | by ( Dylan Loeb Mcclain | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The Candidates Tournament to select a challenger for the World Chess Championship will be held in April in Toronto. The ensuing chaos led to criticism of the International Chess Federation, the game’s governing body, also known as FIDE. Six of the eight players in the Candidates Tournament were decided before December, leaving two places up for grabs and five players vying for them. One spot was for the player with the highest rating on FIDE’s list on Jan. 1 who had not already qualified. In an attempt to secure the remaining slots, some players entered last-minute or obscure tournaments that FIDE had not anticipated they would participate in.
Persons: Wesley, Alireza Firouzja Organizations: International Chess Federation, FIDE Locations: Toronto, United States, France
☆ In a Bitter Lawsuit, Chess Combatants Agree to a Draw
  + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Dylan Loeb Mcclain | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
As the statement made clear, all parties in the litigation will now be allowed to “talk openly about their views,” meaning without fear of legal repercussions. It would not be surprising if people in the chess world, including Carlsen, Nakamura and Niemann, continued to weigh in. In addition, there is a looming investigation from the International Chess Federation, the game’s governing body, into the matter. At the time, the federation said it would release the report in October. We always strive to do what is best for chess, and we believe this decision to move forward together is good for the game.”
Persons: Carlsen, Niemann, “, Magnus, Nakamura, Louis, Erik Allebest, Chess.com, ” Organizations: International Chess Federation Locations: St
☆ Overlooked No More: Sultan Khan, Untrained Chess Player Who Became a Champion
  + stars: | 2023-05-27 | by ( Dylan Loeb Mcclain | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. In July 1929, 12 chess players gathered at Chatham House School, a venerable institution in Ramsgate, England, to contest the British championship. In addition, there were differences in the rules of chess played on the subcontinent. For example, pawns could not move two squares on their first turn, and there was no similar rule for castling. The need to adjust to how the game was played in Europe gave Khan ‌a significant handicap‌, particularly in the early phase of games‌.
☆ Chess’ Governing Body Delays Report on Cheating Scandal
  + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( David Segal | Dylan Loeb Mcclain | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
The internet was soon awash with theories about how Niemann might have secreted a radio device on his body. In a postgame interview at the Cup, Niemann offered to play naked, in a radio signal-proofed room, to prove he was playing clean. He also said emphatically that he had never cheated during an over-the-board game, as in-person chess is known. Many in the chess world did not believe him. Viswanathan Anand, a five-time world champion, put it this way: “I thought Carlsen literally cracked at the end.”
☆ Ding Liren of China Wins World Chess Championship
  + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Dylan Loeb Mcclain | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Ding Liren of China won the world chess championship in a tiebreaker on Sunday, defeating Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia to become the first Chinese man to hold the world title. Ding’s victory is the latest high point in chess for China, a rising power in the game. The country, which once banned chess as a symbol of a decadent West, now holds both the men’s and women’s world championships. Chinese users, full of pride and relief after two anxiety-filled weeks, celebrated the championship even as some admitted to their ignorance of how to play chess. Nearly all agreed, though, on the weight of the moment.
☆ Virginia Norwood, ‘Mother’ of Satellite Imaging Systems, Dies at 96
  + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Dylan Loeb Mcclain | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Virginia Norwood, an aerospace pioneer who invented the scanner that has been used to map and study the earth from space for more than 50 years, has died at her home in Topanga, Calif. She was 96. Her death was announced by the United States Geological Survey, whose Landsat satellite program relies on her invention. Her daughter, Naomi Norwood, said that her mother was found dead in her bed on the morning of March 27. Ms. Norwood, a physicist, was the person primarily responsible for designing and championing the scanner that made the program possible. NASA has called her “the mother of Landsat.”
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