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2 lip 2019 · Both are cunning: the knight offers a game of chess and gets a reprieve from death, and later distracts death with a game and saves the family of actors, and death learns the knight’s plan for the game by cunning.
6 wrz 2021 · Some well known chess players have died in some... well... odd ways and sometimes tragic ways... Here are a few examples I found online. Some of these stories you'll probably know. Some perhaps not. 1.) On March 24, 1946, Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946) choked to death on a piece of meat.
4 gru 2023 · In the 2006 match between GMs Veselin Topalov and Vladimir Kramnik, the former accused his opponent of cheating by taking a sizable amount of trips to the bathroom. According to Topalov’s team, upwards of 50 although this was never confirmed. In response, the two players' private bathrooms were locked.
So two players did get in a fight in at the 2020 Gibraltar event. As far as I know they both spent a night in the cell and were then released, with no further incident. They're amateur players, not famous GMs, so I see no reason for them to be named.
12 kwi 2021 · The chess community is in uproar after footage of a fight between two grandmasters leaked. The fight, from 2018, is newly relevant thanks to a series of disputes between Hikaru Nakamura and Eric...
19 paź 2024 · In 1997, the world watched in amazement as the world chess champion, GM Garry Kasparov, lost to IBM's chess-playing supercomputer, Deep Blue, in a high-profile chess match. Now, the most famous "man vs. machine" battle in history— Kasparov vs. Deep Blue —is the subject of a miniseries called Rematch .
22 lis 2007 · Deaths of Chess Players. Georgy Agzamov (1954-1986) - Russian GM fell between some rocks at a beach and died. Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946) - choked to death on a piece of meat in 1946. Johann Allgaier (1763-1823) - dropsy.
