Summer 2017

ESPN: The exceptional genius of Hou Yifan

Kommersant: Grandmasters are to be clicked (Russian)

Inc. Russia: World Chess Launches Online Store (Russian)

Times: Chess players’ heart monitors to set pulses racing

Washington Post: World Chess wants to hook up grandmasters to heart monitors to make matches ‘more exciting’

Telegraph: Chess brings in biometrics in quest to make game more exciting to watch

New Yorker: A Chess Master with an Unpredictable Style and the Hopes of a Nation

GQ: Chess: the best sporting event in the world you aren't watching

New York Times: Magnus Carlsen Overwhelms Challenger

Daily Mail: Norwegian, Russian to square off in World Chess Championship

RBC: New York Gambit (In Russian)

Afisha: Chess is the Event of the Year (in Russian)

Slon.ru: Chess players have higher income (in Russian)

Rossiskaya Gazeta: IOC to Consider Chess for Inclusion in the Winter Olympics (in Russian)

Wall Street Journal: King Carlsen retains world chess crown

Chess.com: An Interview with Ilya Merenzon, Organizer of Carlsen-Anand

New York Times: For Chess, a Would-be White Knight 

Chess-news.ru: Ilya Merenzon is the CEO of Agon (in Russian)

Design Week: Daniel Weil Redesigns the Chess Set

Daily Mail: Can this man do for chess what Bernie Ecclestone did for Formula 1? 

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