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Gelfand Challenge: Praggnanandhaa wins five in a row, shares lead
3 years, 7 months ago

Gelfand Challenge: Praggnanandhaa wins five in a row, shares lead

The Hindu  

Making up for a slow start, a determined R. Praggnanandhaa won all five rounds on Friday to share the lead after 10 rounds of Gelfand Challenge online rapid chess tournament. He went on to account for Zhu Jiner, teammate Leon Mendonca, Vincent Keymer and Jonas Buhl Bjerre for a share of the lead with top seeded Uzbek Nodirbek Abdusattarov at …

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Young Indian GM Leon Mendonca wins 2nd Kumania GM tournament in Hungary
3 years, 9 months ago

Young Indian GM Leon Mendonca wins 2nd Kumania GM tournament in Hungary

The Hindu  

Young Indian Grandmaster Leon Luke Mendonca emerged victorious in the 2nd Kumania GM chess tournament in Kisújszállás, Hungary, with a score of 6.5 points from nine rounds. The 15-year-old Goa player, who became India's 67th Grandmaster in December last, remained unbeaten and finished with four wins and five draws in the tournament, which concluded on Thursday. "Feeling happy to retain …

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Coronavirus: IM Leon Mendonca stuck in Hungary with father
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus: IM Leon Mendonca stuck in Hungary with father

The Hindu  

With his father and some books for company at an apartment in Budapest, 14-year-old Indian chess player Leon Mendonca is not exactly feeling stuck even though he has been away from home for almost a month because of the coronavirus-forced travel restrictions. We were denied boarding as the Qatar Airlines crew said that they would be forced to fly us …

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Shuvalova closing in on World junior chess championship
5 years, 2 months ago

Shuvalova closing in on World junior chess championship

The Hindu  

Polina Shuvalova is set to be crowned the girls’ champion in the World junior chess championship. Polina battled to a 66-move win over Ukraine’s Mariia Berdnyk while displaying her uncompromising approach in squeezing out a win from a seemingly drawn position. In the open section, Ukraine’s Evgeny Shtembuliak retained his half-point lead after the top two boards ended in draws. …

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Environmental defenders—often fighting agribusiness—are being violently silenced around the world
5 years, 4 months ago

Environmental defenders—often fighting agribusiness—are being violently silenced around the world

Salon  

When armed gold miners in military uniforms invaded protected land in Northern Brazil and murdered Emyra Wajãpi, a 68-year-old activist and leader of the Wajãpi indigenous community, it was not an isolated incident. According to the report, he was “shot in May 2018 by two unidentified men,” after “leading member of an organization of indigenous farmers dedicated to promoting land …

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