I grew up knowing I was no good at chess, but …, writes Crikey reader Jay Martin.
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World championship chess: Kramnik fights back
At the tenth game only one person seemed unaware that the World Chess Championship was supposed to be all over — Vladimir Kramnik, writes Ian Rogers.
READ MOREWorld Chess: The Painter and the philistine
Each game for Kramnik is an opportunity to try to create a work of art, albeit one where his opponent tries to obstruct him at every move, writes Ian Rogers.
READ MOREWorld championship chess: the brain explosion
Bobby Fischer used to say that he liked to crush the other guy’s ego. Anand now does not have to bother – Kramnik has destroyed his own ego, writes Ian Rogers.
READ MOREWorld championship chess: Nadal v. Federer with pawns
There was atmosphere and passion aplenty in Bonn on Friday as Anand and Kramnik fought out one of the greatest World Championship games of the modern era, writes Ian Rogers.
READ MOREWorld championship chess: Live from Bonn
Vladimir Kramnik is taking on Viswanathan Anand recently voted India’s greatest sportsman of the past 60 years, writes Australia’s first Grandmaster Ian Rogers.
READ MOREThe Age moving around its chess pieces
The editor of the Canberra Times, Mark Baker, is coming back to Melbourne to a senior editorial role on the Sunday Age, writes Margaret Simons.
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