The two-times World Youth Chess Champion WGM Stavroula Tsolakidou was the last to carry the Olympic torch and light the circle in her home city of Kavala. The city of Kavala chose the young chess Champion as the honored athlete....
Chess and the Olympics
Pestaño: Chess in the Olympics Thursday, July 23, 2015 By FRANK ‘BOY’ PESTAÑO EVER since I can recall, there have been several attempts to include chess in the Olympics. This started just after the last world war but the...
Chess to apply for 2020 Olympics inclusion
Snooker, chess and bridge among sports to apply for 2020 Olympics inclusion Press Association Friday 12 June 2015 13.16 EDT Snooker, chess, bridge and tug of war are among the 26 sports to have applied for inclusion in the...
Chess in the Winter Olympics?
FIDE President Considers Pushing Chess Into Winter Olympics Reported by: Indo-Asian News Service Wednesday, 29 April, 2015 16:41 IST As far as he was concerned, Ilyumzhinov said it is prime time for chess competition in the afternoon when a...
A learning moment at the Sochi Olympics
Olympic figure skating: Learning to lose with grace US figure skater Ashley Wagner complained about the judges scores after Thursday night’s free skate figure skating finals, earning some negative press for her reaction. How do we learn to lose...
Sochi Olympics and Kasparov
Sochi and the Nazi OlympicsMAHIR ALIPublished — Wednesday 19 February 2014Last update 19 February 2014 2:12 am Not long ago, the former world chess champion Garry Kasparov compared Sochi 2014 with Berlin 1936 declaring, “these are games which revolve...
The chess side of Sochi
If you knew Sochi like chess players knew Sochi By David R. SandsThe Washington TimesTuesday, February 18, 2014 Sochi was on the chess players’ map long before the lugers, ice dancers and speedskaters showed up. The Russian resort city...
Kasparov blistering Sochi Olympics twitter tirade aiming at Putin
Garry Kasparov Has Kicked Off His Sochi Campaign With A Blistering Twitter Tirade Against Vladimir Putin PETER FARQUHAR 7:14 AM Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov has devoted much of life after chess to criticising the politics and personal...
IOC President slams politicians for using Sochi Olympics for political gains
Thomas Bach, IOC President, Slams Politicians Over Sochi Olympics by STEPHEN WILSONPosted: 02/04/2014 2:30 pm EST Updated: 02/04/2014 9:59 pm EST SOCHI, Russia (AP) — IOC President Thomas Bach accused world leaders Tuesday of using the Sochi Olympics as...
Kasparov’s relentless challenge to Putin
Sochi Games promote ‘dictatorship’Date: January 31, 2014 – 5:34AM Russian former chess great and fierce Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov says the Sochi Winter Olympics promoted “dictatorship” in the country and called on athletes to protest. Kasparov, in Ghana to...