Author: Hwan Cho

[Hwan Cho] This article discusses how there is an increase in players cheating in a chess tournament ever since the COVID-19 pandemic happened. The pandemic discontinued face to face tournaments and instead encouraged online tournaments. However, these online tournaments have seen an increase in cheating by using chess computers to play for them.

Is cheating a problem or a pandemic? I kept staring at my task list, as I was desperate to come up with a good reason to skip one of them. Some tasks are just so uncomfortable that we just do not want to even go near them. I had […]

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[Hwan Cho] This article discusses how another female Iranian player, Ghazal Hakimi was expelled from the chess national team and will compete under the Swiss Chess Federation. The article further describes how other Iranian female chess players in the past have been expelled for not complying with the compulsory Islamic dress code (hijab), or simply wishing not to do so.

Grand Chess Master and member of Iran’s national chess team Ghazal Hakimi has forsaken her Iranian nationality and will compete under the Swiss flag in international chess tournaments. The twenty-six-year-old chess champion who is currently a student in Zurich, Switzerland, achieved the rank of Grand Master (WGM) in 2016. […]

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[Hwan Cho] This article discusses how Magnus Carlsen, the number one chess player in the world and Fabiano Caruana, the second chess player in the world will face each other in a rapid or 10 minute game of chess in the final of the Clutch Chess International.

Caruana and So before starting their match. Image courtesy Saint Louis Chess Club. GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Fabiano Caruana will play the final of the Clutch Chess International. Although Carlsen’s win vs GM Levon Aronian was never really in doubt, Caruana made a big comeback vs. GM Wesley […]

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[Hwan Cho] This article discusses a 5 time American World Champion, Hikaru Nakamura who was able to spread the game of chess to other popular twitch streamers like XQC and mentor them in the game of chess. With the COVID-19 pandemic, Hikaru Nakamura was able to focus more on his stream and popularize the game of chess. Recently, there has even been a twitch competition called POGCHAMPS that was strictly on the game of chess.

Hikaru Nakamura is the top-ranked blitz chess player in the world—and his channel has seen a meteoric rise as he coaches streamers in the ancient game. In March, an average of 2,000 people tuned in live to watch Hikaru Nakamura on Twitch. His fanbase has since grown to 366,000 […]

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[Hwan Cho] This article concerns specific chess matches that happened during the pogchamps chess tournament, where twitch streamers played each other. Specifically, this article discusses two players, Yassuo and xQc, where Yassuo was able to secure a decisive victory against xQc.

Out of a Ruy Lopez, Yassuo took down fan-favorite xQc in their Group B match-up. The second day of the Chess.com PogChamps brought tense action in both clashes. A rivalry was born between NymN and SlikeR, when trash-talking in chess was redefined live on broadcast. Meanwhile, the much-anticipated clash […]

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[Hwan Cho] In this article, it discusses a chess match between two grandmasters, Viswanathan Anand and Veselin Topalov, and how although Anand faced some serious difficulties in his competition, he was able to secure a victory against Topalov through the help of other grandmasters, which resulted in his 4th world title.

Viswanathan Anand (right) playing the final game against Veselin Topalov In the 10th anniversary of his Sofia world championship clash, new facts emerge about Vishwanathan Anand’s bitterly-fought contest Chess enthusiasts might remember the summer of 1972, in Iceland’s capital of Reykjavic, to have been hotter than usual. Both Boris […]

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