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Fast Forward Saudi Arabia Loses World Chess Match For Refusing Visas To Israelis — Again
JERUSALEM (JTA) — For the second straight year, Saudi Arabia won’t let Israeli chess players in for a world tournament. This year the Arab country will be penalized. The World Blitz & Rapid Championships has been relocated to Russia after the Israelis were refused visas. The same thing happened to seven Israelis who were to…
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Fast Forward Tunisia, Under Pressure, Lets 7-Year-Old Israeli In For Chess Championships
(JTA) — Following pressure, the Tunisian Chess Federation has agreed to allow a 7-year-old Israeli girl to participate in an international tournament in Tunisia. Tunisian authorities backtracked on their refusal to grant a visa to Liel Levitan for the World School Individual Championships next year in Sousse, France’s National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or…
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Fast Forward 7-Year-Old Chess Prodigy Banned From World Championships Because She’s Israeli
A seven-year-old Israeli chess prodigy will not be able to participate in the World Chess Championship because the host country, Tunisia, will not allow Israelis to compete, the Times of Israel reported Saturday. Schoolgirl Liel Levitan will instead participate in the World Alternative Championship, which is currently being crowdfunded via a campaign led by fellow…
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The Schmooze World Chess Champions Won’t Compete In Saudi Arabia Tournament That Kept Out Israelis
Anna Muzychuk, a 27 year-old Ukrainian woman, currently holds two World Champion titles in speed chess. This week she will lose them both without playing a single game. Why? Because Muzychuk, along with her sister Mariya Muzychuk — also a chess grandmaster and 2015 Women’s World Chess Champion — is not willing to abide by…
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Fast Forward Israeli Players Banned From World Chess Championship In Saudi Arabia
ATHENS, Dec 24 (Reuters) – Israeli players have been denied visas to participate in a speed chess championship hosted by Saudi Arabia this week, a vice president of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) said on Sunday. Seven Israeli players had requested visas for the tournament on Dec. 26-30. It would have marked the first time…
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The Schmooze Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky Face Off (Again) in New Chess Drama
Chess isn’t what you’d call a blood sport. Unless, of course, it’s 1972 and your name is Bobby Fischer. At the time, the face-off between the chess-prodigy from Brooklyn and Russian champ Boris Spassky had the world riveted. And soon, you’ll be able to relive the whole thing on the big screen. Tobey Maguire and…
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News For Bar Mitzvah Boy and Survivor, Love of Chess Bridges 76-Year Age Gap
Thirteen-year-old Zachary Targoff was feeling cornered. His options were running out. Across the table, 90-year-old Herman Bomze sat impassively, waiting. “I made a bad move there,” Zachary said. A minute passed in tense silence. Then Zachary accepted his demise. “I’m going to go ahead and resign,” he said. Thus ended the latest of the improbable…
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