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Hou Yifan in Der Spiegel

4/18/2018 – The 24-year old former Women's World Champion, in an interview with Spiegel Online's Christian Gödecke, explains her current plans for the future, as she shifts her focus in the wake of her impending Rhodes Scholar status at Oxford University and says, "I would prefer not to distinguish between men and women players". | Photo: Macauley Peterson

Garry Kasparov: Winter is Coming

1/2/2016 – One thing one cannot say about the 13th World Chess Champion: that he is timid and reserved. In an interview with SPIEGEL, Europe's most influential news magazine, Garry Kasparov calls Vladimir Putin a dictator and accuses the West of capitulating in the face of the Kremlin's aggressive foreign policy. This and hundreds of stories in the broadsheets were sparked by the release of his latest book.

Remembering Werner Harenberg (1)

3/4/2014 – He was a senior editor of the prestigious weekly news magazine Der Spiegel – the German equivalent of Time and Newsweek. In the late 1970s he developed a lasting passion for chess, and over the decades did more for the game and its players than almost anyone else in the country. On February 14 Werner Harenberg died, at the age of 84. Eulogy by Frederic Friedel.
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