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Tani Adewumi is making the American dream come true. A story by Nicholas Kristof back in 2019 published in NY Times, featuring a homeless young chess player winning the New York State K-3 scholastic championship, led to a series of events that spell a bright future for Tanitoluwa “Tani” Adewumi.

At age 10, Tani Adewumi became a National Chess Master! Congratulations, Tani!

Just a day after winning the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, Magnus Carlsen scores yet another title. Playing with his traditional online username GM DrNykterstein, Carlsen won the Lichess Bullet Arena. The World Chess Champion finished with 114 points (Lichess system) and win rate of 87% ahead of GM Sergei Zhigalko with 96 points and 77% win rate and GM Jonas Bjerre with 73 points and 66% win rate.

Mr. Prasad Ramasubramanian, Assistant Editor with the Times of India (TOI), gave an extensive interview for Chessdom.com. He talked about the booming chess in India, the influence of Vishy Anand on the local chess community, the upcoming young Indian chess players, the current situation of chess journalism in times of covid-19, and the World Chess Championship 2021 match.

Deep Blue – Garry Kasparov was a pair of six-game chess matches between the world chess champion Garry Kasparov and an IBM supercomputer called Deep Blue. The first match was played in Philadelphia in 1996 and won by Kasparov. The second was played in New York City in 1997 and won by Deep Blue. This match marked the end of human attempts to meaningfully challenge “the machine”.

Magnus Carlsen survived a fierce fightback from Hikaru Nakamura to clinch his first Meltwater Champions Chess Tour title on Sunday. The World Champion broke his duck in the $1.5 million Tour events at the fifth attempt with a 3-1 final set victory that sealed the New In Chess Classic.

114 boys and 59 girls are playing this week in the Serbian Youth Chess Championships 2021. The event takes place 3-9 May in Subotica and is one of the bright signs that chess is (finally!) going back to normal.

The event started this weekend with rapid and blitz games. Starting Monday is the main classical chess event, played over 9 rounds in the Swiss system. The participants are divided in boys and girls groups, each divided further into six age categories.

The Champions Chess Tour was in the last round this Sunday with a final between Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura. But it was a HOT David Howell who stole the show with a #ChilliChessChallenge!

The Azerbaijan Chess Championship 2021 is going to take place May 4-18 in Nakhchivan. The stakes in the event are high as the winner qualifies to the World Chess Cup 2021.

How well does Magnus Carlsen handle questions while playing blitz? Magnus Carlsen is definitely politically correct, dodging masterfully key questions. Yet, his honestly is brutal, “Stop bothering me […] it is really annoying!”

For you, Magnus, it was annoying. We had lots of fun ;)