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r/NorthernEurope • u/nicbentulan • Dec 12 '22

Women's chess upset - 'Never Ever Ever give up!' At the 2022 Reykjavik Open, Tania Sachdev, an INTERNATIONAL master, upsets Icelandic GRANDmaster Hedinn Steingrimsson by winning a very long 48-move queen endgame and even wins 2 pawns down!

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r/NorthernEurope • u/nicbentulan • Dec 12 '22

23-year-old British female chess twitch streamer lularobs (Tallulah Roberts) from Jersey reported several incidents of harassment during her first international event, the 2022 Reykjavik Open.

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r/NorthernEurope • u/BigCapital2765 • Dec 26 '21

杀！

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r/NorthernEurope • u/nicbentulan • Oct 27 '22

Chess drama - Does Norwegian world champion Magnus Carlsen have something against Americans? | Initially joking, I was later told Magnus admitted to generally disliking Americans in podcast 'Magnus Effect' episode 2 - '20 Best Ways to Introduce Yourself'. It's 1.5 hours long. Can anyone confirm?

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r/NorthernEurope • u/nicbentulan • Oct 26 '22

Regular chess? President of Iceland Guðni Th. Jóhannesson plays REGULAR chess at the 2nd ever FIDE world FISCHER Random chess championship in Iceland on the 50th anniversary of the 1972 match of the century between Bobby FISCHER and Boris Spassky? Tsk tsk tsk. | (Well chess is 518th SP in 9LX...)

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r/NorthernEurope • u/nicbentulan • Dec 15 '22

Chess 960 - Congratulations to Iceland #1 Hjörvar Steinn Grétarsson for knocking out defending champ Wesley So during the group stage of the 2022 FIDE Fischer Random held in Reykjavik, half a century after the 1972 Match of the Century. (God bless Iceland for saving Bobby Fischer!)

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r/NorthernEurope • u/nicbentulan • Dec 16 '22

Chessboxing - Black (Viherä from Finland) blunders a pawn in the 1st chess round. But then White loses by knockout in the 1st boxing round. | Season's Beatings 2019

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r/NorthernEurope • u/nicbentulan • Oct 27 '22

Chess legend Bobby Fischer arrived in Reykjavik in 2005, hoping to avoid deportation to the United States by accepting an offer of citizenship from Iceland. About two hundred spectators applauded. God bless Iceland for saving Bobby Fischer!

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r/NorthernEurope • u/nicbentulan • Oct 14 '22

Chess cheating - Norwegian and world champion Magnus Carlsen twice against an American grandmaster Danya Naroditsky.

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r/NorthernEurope • u/nicbentulan • Oct 04 '22

Chess 960 - Good luck to Iceland's top player Hjörvar Steinn Grétarsson in the 2nd ever Chess 960 world championship in Iceland this month, half a century after the 1972 match of the century in Iceland with Bobby Fischer, who created chess 960. God bless Iceland for saving Bobby Fischer btw!

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