It's far from the main point of this article, which focuses on next year's world championship match between titleholder Viswanathan Anand and his challenger, Boris Gelfand, but the following is far more newsworthy than anything about the match:
[Former world champion Vladimir] Kramnik also announced several days ago that he is planning to hang up the gloves, that is, put away the chessboard, but Anand is still playing and winning!
Say what? None of the standard news sites seem to have mentioned this, but thanks be to search engines, which reveal that his retirement is not imminent. Rather, the story is that the 36-year-old Kramnik, like Gata Kamsky (who is one year older than Kramnik), intends to retire at age 40. (Too bad, but it's nice that at least some chess players can afford to retire, based on their successes over the board. Before Bobby Fischer, this was impossible.)
(Indirect HT to Brian Karen for the first article.)