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 The world top ranked chess player is known to be a vivid football enthusiast. Less known might be that he is also a great Donald Duck enthusiast. Recently NRK - The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation - could report that Magnus Carlsen will be featured in a Donald Duck comic strip to be released the same time as the Anand - Carlsen match commences in November.
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 OTTAWA, Canada—At 14 years old, Qiyu Zhou is one of those children parents like to imagine they will raise.
Zhou speaks four languages, plays the flute, and is a confident and well-rounded teenager. She plays badminton, tennis, and swims, and has a mass of medals to prove it. She’s also a world champion in chess for girls under 14, a title she picked up a couple weeks ago in South Africa. “Becoming world champion has been my dream for a really long time,” she said. See full article.  China’s victory in the recent Olympiad in Tromsø was the icing on the cake for the country’s powerful and well-structured chess school. For the Russian men’s team, meanwhile, it was another inglorious chapter in their recent history, as they failed to make it onto the podium. Here at chess24 we decided to compare both schools, looking at the success they’ve already achieved and taking a look at their major future talents.
See articles: China vs. Russia (1): Battle of the chess schools China vs. Russia (2): Battle of the chess schools  21-year-old Filipino Wesley So has won the Millionaire Open final in Las Vegas to claim the $100,000 first prize. His opponent in the last match was 19-year-old US player and Webster University teammate Ray Robson. After a quiet draw with Black in the first game So managed to apply pressure from the off in the second thanks to an opening idea that gave him a winning position after only 13 moves.
See Chess24.com article.  Las Vegas, Nevada – After more than a year of preparation, this morning marks the beginning of
the Millionaire Chess Open, perhaps the most anticipated open chess tournament in the history of the world’s most storied game. Over 550 players from more than 40 countries have assembled to do battle for a million dollar prize pool, double the previous record for the largest guaranteed payout ever awarded in a chess tournament. The roster of participants runs from 10 year old chess prodigies to International Grandmasters. Read the complete Press Release. Watch the live broadcast.  If you would have told me three months ago that in October I would be going to the 2014 World Junior Chess Championship in Pune, India(October 5-20) as the USCF official representative, I would have simply stared at you in disbelief, but dreams do come true! As a 16-year old teen with a peak USCF rating of 2106, at times I pinch myself as I realize that there are girls more deserving and higher rated than myself to attend this tournament, but the awesomeness of American chess is that we all have the opportunity to earn the right of representing our country.
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