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What is the longest that is a piece other than the king? (Am having trouble accessing the pgn.)

See interview in Wired from 21 February 2020: Defeated Chess Champ Garry Kasparov Has Made Peace With AI Some interesting comments. See also the Chessbase exceprts from this interview, which also links to this: Chess, a Drosophila of reasoning That is an editorial in Science magazine by Kasparov in ...

Interesting. The law (4.7) states "When, as a legal move or part of a legal move, a piece has been released on a square, it cannot be moved to another square on this move." But in this case it is presumably not clear on which square the piece was 'released'. I think the law is assuming the piece ha...

Interesting, from the link Roger provided above: At the present time, it is not expected that the Chinese delegation should undergo a mandatory quarantine, but the situation changes by the hour, and each territory applies different measures. To be on the safe side, we are studying the possibility of...

Have I misunderstood? Surely if the Chinese players are already in the country, then there is no problem. Ah, I see, it is 17 March, not February, that the tournament starts. Maybe the two Chinese players should try and enter Russia now? But maybe their visas won't cover this. Maybe the whole tourna...

I am sure this record could be matched, if not broken. Desperadoes and king hunts seem the right way to go. What about desperadoes where pawns promote in the corner after taking a rook - if a pawn has promoted, is it the same piece?

Understood. I have edited my second post above as it is not relevant. Still, FWIW, have just noticed that a post in this thread by Ian Thompson from 14 January at 4:23 pm (compare the timing Ian T points to above) quotes part of what Alex H said, which may have escaped attention. Mentioning it in ca...

[EDIT: removed as the thread I pointed to was about something else.]

FWIW, pages 8 and 9 of this thread have posts from 14 January, none from Alex H. Either it is in a different thread or it was removed.

I think this counts as chess history now...

Two-part Chessbase article on Vlastimil Hort's memories of Tony Miles:

Part 1
Part 2

Oh, I missed that Wintour (yes, the father of Anna, the editor of Vogue) was in there for two stints. That is lucky, no unlucky 13!

To explain (though most will understand the context), the current editor of the Evening Standard is George Osborne (former Chancellor of the Exchequer), whose chess credentials have been discussed here before (kids attending the London Chess Classic and when the Candidates was in London they held a ...

There is a Chessbase article on this: Leonard Barden's Evening Standard column ends after 63 years Barden writes that the Evening Standard column has ended primarily due to budget cuts Otherwise I might well have continued until I dropped, as has been a long tradition with English newspaper columnis...

If it helps, a link to the Ferdinand and Miranda at Chess article (chapter?) is here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/shakespeare-survey/ferdinand-and-miranda-at-chess/7C860B93D5F896A6FB3D15C5B8434AF4 The abstract states: Allusions to chess are rare in Shakespeare. The term chess itself is used...

See also the Chessbase article (published 30/01/2020): Dark times for Ukrainian chess by Ukrainian GM Mikhail Golubev.