In the words of Kasparov, 'chess was treated by the Soviet authorities as a very useful ideological tool to demonstrate the intellectual superiority of the Soviet communist regime over the decadent ...

This has never happened before, and here it is again! The former Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation Pavel Kolobkov ...

Volodar Murzin, who won the FIDE World Rapid Championship in December, has said that he has no desire to play in Russia as all competitions in the country use the flag of the Russian Chess Federation ...

Chess Grandmaster Sergei Khlebnikov is a highly talented and unusual person, living in the 1970s Soviet Union. His is obsessed with making a beautiful game. But his emotional and irrational way is the ...