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Chess King (Chinese: 棋王, "Qi wang") is a 1988 Chinese drama film written and directed by Teng Wenji, based on Ah Cheng's novel of the same name. The film was entered into the main competition at the 45th edition of the Venice Film Festival . [ 1 ]
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The 2020 Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour was a series of online chess tournaments featuring most of the world’s best players, playing for a prize money pool of US$ 1 million. The tour consisted of four super-tournaments (elite competitions), with the winners then playing in a Grand Final in August 2020.
The tournament was structured as a series of mini-matches, consisting of four games of rapid chess, if needed followed by two rounds of blitz chess (semi-finals and final only), if needed followed by an Armageddon tie-break. The winner after rapid games received 3 points, the loser 0 points; if a tie-break was necessary, the winner received 2 ...
The 2020 chess calendar was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, but major events that took place included the Tata Steel Chess Tournament, won by Fabiano Caruana, and Norway Chess, won by Magnus Carlsen.
2020–2021 Candidates Tournament: Double round robin 17–25 Mar 2020 and 19–27 Apr 8 (7) Ian Nepomniachtchi: Maxime Vachier-Lagrave: Anish Giri: Champions Chess Tour New In Chess Classic: Hybrid 24 Apr – 2 May 16 (12) Magnus Carlsen: Hikaru Nakamura: Shakhriyar Mamedyarov: Chess World Cup 2021: Single-elimination tournament 12 Jul – 6 ...
Pawn Sacrifice is a 2014 American biographical psychological drama film about Bobby Fischer, a chess grandmaster and the eleventh world champion.It follows Fischer's challenge against top Soviet chess grandmasters during the Cold War and culminating in the World Chess Championship 1972 match versus Boris Spassky in Reykjavík, Iceland.
Chess King – sold to Merry-Go-Round in 1993; liquidated along with that chain in 1995; Christopher & Banks – bankrupted in 2021 from financial loss, because of the COVID-19 pandemic; County Seat – founded in 1973, the denim-focused mall retailer expanded in the 1980s to nearly 500 stores. It filed for bankruptcy in 1996 and shuttered ...