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I need you badly, Mr. Biden told Hispanic voters last month at Phoenix. Given the opportunity to reach them, he showed the Univision anchor, Enrique Acevedo, a bust of farm union organizer Cesar Chavez. The president discussed the impact of his activism and noted that his granddaughter, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, is his reelection campaign manager.

Mr. Biden told Univision he sympathized with those entering America because they have no alternatives. Chavez, a third-generation American and Navy veteran, took a harder line on those who broke the law one that demonstrates the folly of painting the entire Latino voting block as backing unlimited migration.

In an excerpt of a 1974 interview unearthed by Fish Films Footage World, Chavez explained his opposition to unvetted people entering the country. His reasoning echoed another famed labor leader, Samuel Gompers, who was one of the loudest voices for The Immigration Act of 1924 which capped entry at two percent of each foreign countrys population.

Illegal border crossers, Chavez said, were an emergency with an awful lot of illegals coming in by the hundreds, by the thousands. He lamented that some of the schools are 100 percent illegals, and the citizen is out of a job because of he wetback, a slur now considered offensive.

As Mr. Trump does today, Chavez blamed the federal government for the unbelievable influx that, he reckoned, harmed unions and depressed wages. Was it an uncomfortable position to be against the illegal immigrants because they are from Mexico, the unidentified interviewer asked.

Oh, yeah, sure, Chavez replied. But were speaking of the legal ones. You know, we dont want Mexico to export its poverty to us, and then we pay. He noted that a lot of the farmworkers he represented were of Mexican descent themselves.

Those members of the United Farm Workers, Chavez said, were very uptight and very, very worried and very mad about the illegals coming to break their strikes and take away their jobs, their livelihood and so forth. Members, like their leader, saw this question of illegals is as important as any of the other problems facing the union.

In a letter to the San Francisco Examiner in 1974, Chavez opposed deporting the undocumented, but welcomed them to be admitted as legal residents. But around this time, he launched the Illegals Campaign, spending $80,000 a week on 300 people to patrol the border. Accounts found some of the vigilantes beating and robbing migrants despite Chavezs embrace of nonviolence.

Last week, an Axios-Ipsos Latino Poll found that numbers of Hispanic voters are as nuanced as Chavezs. Some 64 percent supported giving a president the authority to shut down the border if there are too many migrants trying to enter. Asked which candidate is good on immigration, Mr. Trump led Mr. Biden 29 to 22 percent.

Forty-two percent backed Mr. Trumps signature issue, a barrier with Mexico, while 38 percent would send all undocumented immigrants back home. Overall, Mr. Biden was viewed more favorably, 41 to 32 percent, but the pathway to expanding that lead isnt a straight run through an open border policy.

Last months New York Times/Siena College poll found that Hispanic voters favor Mr. Trump over Mr. Biden 46 percent to 40 percent. Its a stark change from 2020, when the Democrat more than doubled the then-incumbent Republicans share, 66 percent to 32 percent.

The reversal has shocked the White House. It assumed that Mr. Trumps hard line against illegal immigration would make him radioactive to Americans of Hispanic descent, as if the same issues crime, housing, and competition for jobs dont impact them as they do other citizens.

Mr. Biden has won the endorsement of Chavezs family, but on the issue of illegal crossings, Mr. Trump can lay claim to a portion of the labor leaders legacy, too. Dont be surprised if his bust keeps its place of honor in the Oval Office whoever is in the Oval Office next year.

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1. Candidates Chess 2024 Highlights: Vidit Gujrathi beats Nakamura; Gukesh vs Pragg ends in draw  The Indian Express
2. Chess Candidates 2024, Round 9 Highlights: Vidit beats Nakamura; Praggnanandhaa-Gukesh, Humpy-Lagno end in ...  Sportstar
3. Gukesh, Praggnanandhaa close enough to change the script of Candidates Chess  The Times of India

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Press release by the World Chess Hall of Fame

The World Chess Hall of Fame (WCHOF), the leading chess cultural center in the country, opened Clash for the Crown: Celebrating Chess Champions, an all-new exhibition on April 11, 2024, which is being held in conjunction with the 100th anniversary celebration of the International Chess Federation (FIDE).

Clash for the Crown: Celebrating Chess Champions explores the histories of the World Chess Championship and Womens World Chess Championship through a display of artifacts from the collection of the WCHOF, FIDE and loans from world chess champions including Worlds No. 1 Magnus Carlsen and private lenders.

Clash for the Crown is a powerful exhibition set to thrill and delight chess enthusiasts as they experience a century of history-defining moments and milestones across the beloved sport of chess, said Emily Allred, Curator of the WCHOF. We are incredibly grateful to have such rich artifacts to include in this first-of-its-kind exhibition.

The exhibition begins with the 1886 World Chess Championship, held in New York City, Saint Louis, Mo. and New Orleans, La., and won by Wilhelm Steinitz and goes all the way to the present world chess champion, GM Ding Liren.

It also tracks the history of the Womens World Chess Championship from its first winner, the legendary Vera Menchik who was the first Women's World Champion, to Ju Wenjun, the reigning womens world chess champion. This exhibition is being held in connection with the 100th anniversary of the founding of FIDE.

To commemorate the 100th anniversary, FIDE has planned various celebrations, including festivals, historical exhibitions, the FIDE 100-year Jubilee Book, global tournaments, an online chess museum featuring rare photos, special publications, iconic event posters and more. The Chess Torch relay, marking FIDEs first century, has already visited Asia and Africa and is set to reach the Americas soon.

I am thankful to the WCHOF and Dr. Jeanne Cairns Sinquefield and Rex Sinquefield for organizing this exhibition and taking part in marking the centenary of the birth of FIDE, said Arkady Dvorkovich, President of FIDE. We hope this exhibition inspires a deeper appreciation for the history of this great sport and its organization. It stands as a bridge between the past and the future, offering a window into the games rich heritage and FIDEs profound role in the chess world.

Displays in the exhibition include an area where visitors can view videos of many of the past world champions and womens world champions, and interactive stations where people can learn about past champions. Programming will include lectures about the history of the World Chess Championship, collaborations with FIDE celebrating their golden anniversary and possible collaborations with current and past champions. Other Clash for the Crown highlights will include:

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Dana Reizniece-Ozola, Deputy Chair of the FIDE Management Board and Willy Iclicki, Chair of the FIDE Historical Committee, visited the exhibition and were really impressed with the various chess artifacts on display.

The exhibition will be on view April 11-January 12, 2025.

For more information, please visit worldchesshof.org.

The World Chess Hall of Fame (WCHOF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to building awareness of the cultural and artistic significance of chess. It opened on September 9, 2011, in the Central West End after moving from previous locations in New York, Washington, D.C., and Miami. Housed in a historic 15,900 square-foot residence-turned-business in Saint Louis' Central West End neighborhood, the WCHOF features World Chess Hall of Fame inductees, United States Chess Hall of Fame inductees selected by the U.S. Chess Trust, artifacts from the permanent collection and exhibitions highlighting the great players, historic games and rich cultural history of chess. The WCHOF partners with the Saint Louis Chess Club to provide innovative programming and outreach to local, national and international audiences. For more information, visit worldchesshof.org and on social: Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter) and YouTube channels.

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In this video course, experts (Pelletier, Marin, Mller and Reeh) examine the games of Judit Polgar. Let them show you which openings Polgar chose to play, where her strength in middlegames were, or how she outplayed her opponents in the endgame.

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The National Amusements nightmare continued apace this week with more bad news for Shari Redstone. Earlier this month, we learned that Shari had decided to all but ignore Apollos $26 billion bid for all of Paramount Global in favor of David Ellison, KKR, and RedBird Capitals cockamamie bid to buy National Amusements Inc., the Redstone family holding company that controls Paramount, for more than $2 billiona premium of at least 160 percent above the $760 million that her economic stake is valued at these daysand then to have Paramount buy Ellisons Hollywood company, Skydance, for $5 billion. Thats crazy.

To evaluate the Ellison madness, the Paramount board, which Shari controls, first appointed a special committee, which then hired Cravath, the law firm, and Centerview Partners, the excellent boutique advisory firm run by my longtime friend Blair Effron. The special committee then handed Ellison and his partners a 30-day exclusive period to see if a definitive agreement could be worked out, while appearing to let the Apollo offer fade to black. But this decision seemed motivated purely by Sharis self-interestas if she didnt give a shit about her aggrieved shareholders and simply wanted a clean break from all of her business woes not only Paramounts decline but also her N.A.I. burden.

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For the best performance, chess and wine don't mix... This game is a cautionary tale!

However, if one's goal is to have fun while meeting a friend, it's perfectly fine. As usual, it depends on context!

Last week I posted a video of a game of casual chess over-the-board at one of the local bars in Newtown, Sydney Australia. I only included the first game in that video as I'd accidentally knocked my micro-tripod off alignment between games so the recording wasn't useable. However, my mate (dr_magneto) and I played two games of 15+10 rapid on the Chessnut Air board, and this is the second game. I had the Black pieces, and this is the story of how alcohol can muddle your calculations in chess!

My mate is a man of culture, so led with the Queen's Pawn Opening (1. d4). I'd recently been doing some research on my book on the Budapest Gambit, so rather than my usual Englund Gambit, I responded with (1... Nf6), the Indian Game, which potentially leads to the Budapest Gambit. However, White responded with (2. Nc3) rather than (2. c4). Undeterred, I decided to play a (2... e5) anyway! Apparently, this is known as the "Maddigan Gambit, and I was hoping for a Budapest-like line with dxe5 and then Ng4. However, this isn't a promising line according to the Lichess community database with White having a clear win advantage (53%) vs Black (44%).

White declined the gambit by advancing their d-pawn (3. d5) and I immediately provoked again with (3... c6). Again, they declined the capture, playing (5. e4) to consolidate the centre, and so I developed (5... Bc5) and White then decided to pin my knight to the queen (5. Bg5).

By this point, I'd had a couple of glasses of very nice pinot noir and made a very silly blunder. Being tipsy, I had it in my mind that I had an unpinning tactic available, and simply launched it without a sanity check! First, the bishop sacrifice-capture the f2-pawn with check, drawing White's king onto the f-file (5... Bxf2+?? 6. Kxf2). And then, unpin the knight with check (6... Ng4+)... and I realised my mistake too late! The diagonal was open so the g4 square was defended by White's queen (7. Qxg4)! Rather than a brilliancy, I had a double-blunder! Whoops!

Now, a sensible person might resign from the position. On analysis, Stockfish gives the evaluation at better than [+6] for White! However, I decided to play on and treat this simply as a handicap and a challenge! I've written this before, but there is a certain intellectual pleasure trying to come back from a completely losing position! When there are still a lot of pieces on the board, it's often possible to equalise in beginner-intermediate games. When there are few pieces, it is sometimes still possible to draw.

I must admit that the realisation of my double-blunder did sober me up! I noted the tactical resources that I had - which wasn't very much! Firstly, White's king cannot castle and is exposed on the f-file and the dark squares. Secondly, I had a potential discovered attack on White's queen by my light square bishop. As for some immediate threats, White's bishop and queen on the kingside felt very threatening, especially with the lack of defensive pieces on that side.

And with that threat, I found a rather lovely and flamboyant manoeuvre, (8... Qb6+ 9. Ke1 Qe3+ 10. Nge2 Qh6), rotating the queen flying across the board, making use of two checks, to provide the extra defence needed on the kingside. After castling short, I felt that my king was safe for now.

I noticed in the game that my mate wasn't sure how to progress, which gave me an advantage. Strategically, White has a simple approach. As they have a massive piece advantage (7 vs 5 pieces) a good plan is to force piece trades, especially the queens, and simplify the game towards a winning endgame. However, they seemed to have an aversion to losing material, and common bias, and were looking for winning attacks rather than forcing confrontations.

White advanced their knight to attack the queenside and (13. Nc7?!) directly attacked my a8-rook. However, I uncorked (13... d5), revealing the attack on White's queen. White opted to rotate their knight (14. Ne6?!), which pinned it to the queen. However, this set up a second attacker on g7, which gives White an opportunity to force a queen trade.

I found my own counterattack with (14... Nb4), which looks increasingly threatening the more you calculate. There was the obvious Nxc2+, an absolute fork of White's king and rook. However, if White moved their king to the wrong square, a second knight move might result in a royal fork! White responded to the threat with a passive rook move (15. Rc1?!). However, I found a way to increase the pressure with by pushing the d-pawn to d4, with the threat of d3!

White cracked under pressure and moved their rook a second time to cover the d-file (16. Rd1??), but this was a blunder! Remember the weak dark squares around White's king? My queen on h6 still covered the dark squares and White NEEDED to trade off my queen the turn before as there was now a checkmate-in-two. After (16... Nxc2+), Black's king had only one legal move (17. Kf2), and then (17. Qe3#) mate! GG!

The big takeaway from this game is to play on after a mistake in the opening! It is often possible to not only equalise but gain the advantage!

Game: https://www.chess.com/analysis/library/3a5B3dbrFQ

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