![]() ![]() ![]() The league’s employees and volunteers circulate, scoping out the unfolding games most came up through the programme themselves. The rhythmic clatter of plastic pieces commences. On the wall is a painting of a white tiger mauling a chessboard a tribute to the former world champion Viswanathan Anand, the “tiger of Madras”, who has visited the club.īack inside the competition space for the next round, Vilaisarn, 49, tells everyone to pipe down, in French and Corsican. Marc’Andria’s mother, Lucie, is behind the bar serving slices of pizza, while Fares, seven, tells me: “I like chess because you have the pawn and the king, just like in real life.” Children and adults intermingle freely weaker players are encouraged to take on stronger ones. But it’s true to the democratic ethos of i scacchi (chess) here, a riposte to the often elitist reputation of the sport (as the International Olympic Committee has classified it since 1999). ![]() It may be bedlam outside the game zone for this qualifying round of the Corsican youth championships. Akkhavanh Vilaisarn watches a game during the Corse Trophées tournament in Bastia, Corsica. ![]()
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