George Duke wrote on Tue, Aug 5, 2014 05:20 PM UTC:
The election will be not this week but August 11. http://www.newsinenglish.no/2014/08/04/campaign-rages-for-chess-presidency/.
The best chess masters of every epoch have been closely linked with the
values of the society in which they lived and worked. All the changes of a
cultural, political, and psychological background are reflected in the
style and ideas of their play. -- Garry Kasparov
It was an impressive achievement, of course, and a human achievement by the members of the IBM team, but Deep Blue was only intelligent the way your programmable alarm clock is intelligent. Not that losing to a $10 million alarm clock made me feel any better. -- GK
Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers, or draughts, suffered this fate quite recently thanks to the work of Jonathan Schaeffer at the University of Alberta and his unbeatable program Chinook. -- GK
The development of Chess is closely connected to the development of civilization. Everything that happens is in one way or another connected to Chess. In the 1970's there were two worlds fighting each other. Two political systems were in conflict--which one is better? And then we have a situation on the chessboard with the representative of the capitalist world, Fischer, on one side, and Boris Spassky on the other side. These two worlds fought each other. .... So, Chess was faster -- it foresaw this event. Chess is a mirror reflection of our life. Then, during perestroika--this unclear situation mirrored our unclear situation in chess, the split of world champions. -- Kirsan Ilyumzhinov from J.C. Hallman 'The Chess Artist' (2003)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/heavyweights-spar-over-top-job-in-international-chess/article19321318/.