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Grandmaster laughs at Ace’s chess skills

Grandmaster laughs at Ace’s chess skills

AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER IN the period where his political strategy exploded in his face, ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule’s inept skills in a game of chess have been exposed.  And the assessment has come from a high authority in world chess.  Chess grandmaster, Gary Kasparov, from Russia has described Magashule’s move in a game of chess - trying to move a pawn that has no legal opening -  as a “photo opening”, and attached a laughing emoji. Magashule move in the game, widely described as “illegal” or “fraudulent” was referred to Kasparov on Twitter and he provided the final word. The…
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“I was interested in everything that boys played” Meet Nona Gaprindashvili, chess’s first female grandmaster

“I was interested in everything that boys played” Meet Nona Gaprindashvili, chess’s first female grandmaster

UMBERTO BACCHI  SHE is the only real female chess champion featured in the hit Netflix series 'The Queen's Gambit', but Georgia's Nona Gaprindashvili is none too happy about how the show dismisses her Soviet-era heyday. Gaprindashvili, the first woman to be awarded the title of grandmaster by the World Chess Federation, is mentioned in passing in the period drama as a female world champion who "has never faced men" - something the 79-year-old said made her "very angry". "I felt insulted," Gaprindashvili told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview, adding that by 1968, when the scene is set, she…
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