Norwegian soccer star Erling Haaland's entry into the chess world came as a surprise to fellow countryman Magnus Carlsen, the world's highest-ranked chess player. "What's happening there is super exciting," he says.
FootballThree years, seven months and 20 days. That's the new record for a young chess player to be ranked by the international chess federation Fide.
WorldReactions after chess profile Daniel Naroditsky's unexpected death show that the chess family is large and wonderful, thinks Håkan Jalling, chairman of the Swedish Chess Federation. But also that it has a serious downside.
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