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Chess: rating psychology and exhaustion Discusses the psychological, mental and physical challenges a chess player encounters when facing higher rated opponents. Story is illustrated with an example from a recent county championship game.

Chess Games and Videos Watch and download the games of the 16th Amber Chess Tournament and also watch enchanting chess videos.You can also download photos from the Amber Chess Tournament.

Top chess players 1982 style Who was "top of the pops" in the world of chess in 1982

London's one stop shop for all your poker needs We speak to manager of the Chess & Bridge store in London's city center about the growth of online poker.

Robo Chess Test your brain and play chess against an intelligent and talking robot!

Chess Event Strategy Guide This is something for the WoW players. The Chess event is an encounter in Karazhan where the raid plays a sort of chess match against Medivh, at the end of which a chest appears with the loot. Here is a guide from Bosskillers.com which contains detailed piece descriptions, abilities and explains the three stages of the fight.

Kramnik Overall Champ,Anand Takes Rapid Title Vladimir Kramnik of Russia clinched the title of the 16th Amber blindfold & rapid chess tournament while Viswanathan Anand from India won the Rapid title.The games and the final standings are given here.

Top Boards Draw (Amber Chess) The penultimate round,saw no changes at the top of the table as the leaders all drew their games.Vladimir Kramnik collected one point in his mini-match against Svidler, and so did runners-up Vishy Anand & Vasily Ivanchuk (against Leko and Gelfand resp.).you can watch the live broadcast of the final round & watch the games of the previous rounds.

Chess player of the week: GM Alexandra Kosteniuk Find out why beautiful chess grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk is also a really great person.

Sending the queen home Chess players are renowned for being able to see many moves ahead, but even the very top ones have trouble looking backwards.

Kramnik Maintains Lead (Amber Chess) In the Ninth round of the 1th Amber Chess Tournament,Vladmir Krmanik Of Russia Extendend his lead by another .5 point ahead of his rival Viswananthan Anand of India.The games of this round are broadcasted live here and you can download the games of the previous rounds.

On the same wavelength as Anna Zatonskih Story picks up on a new chess blog by Womens Grandmaster Anna Zatonskih

The Most Dangerous Game | Ask Jimmy Suede Dating is no joke, Matthew — in fact, it’s an intense intellectual chess match that requires heightened mental acuity. If you’re having fun when you’re talking to women at bars and clubs, you’re not taking seduction seriously enough.

Soul destroying chess blunders Chess can be the most soul destroying sport; in what other game can you play beautifully for 4 hours, dominate your opponent, and then throw it all away in a split second of madness?This story discusses blunders and the mental stress they cause.

Iran's Plan to Drag the US and the UK The capture of British Navy servicemen by Iranian forces is not simply an incident over sea sovereignty in the Persian Gulf. It is a calculated move on behalf of Teheran's Jihadi chess players to provoke a "projected" counter move by London and its American allies. It is all happening in a regional context, carefully engineered by the Mullahs...

Live Broadcast---16th Amber Chess Tournament Watch Live Games and download the games of the previous rounds in pgn format.

Oil prices rise as Chess final gets exciting Tension over the Chess World Cup finals have sent oil prices to a 2007 high.

Prince Malchezaar Strategy Guide This is something for the WoW players. Prince Malchezaar, the final boss of Karazhan can be encountered after the chess event. He is easier than Nightbane and drops exceptional quality loots. Here is a guide from Bosskillers.com which includes boss abilities, strategy, positioning diagram, fight progression, raid roles etc.

The Bolivian National Blitz Chess Championships Story about the crazy world that was the Bolivian National Blitz Chess Championships 2001. Beer, music, chickens, grandmasters and even Masai tribesmen (albeit gratuitously) merit a mention.

UTD Chess is HOT!! "It was the most lopsided Final Four victory in the history of the event," said University of Texas-Dallas Chess Program Director Jim Stallings. "Normally, only a half-point or 1 point separates the top two teams. This time UTD scored more than the 2nd and 3rd teams combined."

Antoaneta Stefanova warms up for the European Chess Championships Darling of the chess world, Antoaneta Stefanova, will be one of the favourites at next week's European Championships. This story gives a brief profile and talks about her warm-up tournament in Spain.

Finding Ways to Mess With Homeschoolers Homeschool chess team denied a place at chess championship.

Sophie hopes to make checkmates in Europe Hexham Courant coverage of Sophie Seeber's trip to the European Chess Championships

Chess in Australia Do they play chess in Australia? Story about chess blog readers from around the world, and an Englishman who went to play 'down under'

Chess champ, 15, found with nightclub dancer A 15-year-old Peruvian chess player who didn't come back from a tournament in Argentina has been found - living with a nightclub dancer.

The Community College Chess Team That PWND Yale, Harvard, And More Yeah, thats right. Run-of-the-mill community college is in the final 4 of the Pan American Intercollegiate Chess Tournament!

Chess in the media A success story in the battle for TV airtime and newspaper inches for chess.

Samaipata, the best chess club in the world great story about the world's most incredible chess club. Sat in a small town in the foothills of the Andes, on the edge of the Amazon, at Samiapata in Bolivia.

Community college chess team makes pawns of Yale, Harvard Don't underestimate the grocery store deli worker, the security alarm salesman or the 34-year-old computer science student who anchor the Miami Dade College chess team. The community college undergrads have already faced Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Northwestern and beaten them all.

World's Most Expensive Chess Sets Thought a good mahogany chess board was expensive? Heres a couple chess sets costing $500,000 and $1,900,000 US.

The film set at Matfen Hall: Chess gets on TV Schoolgirl's quest for European Chess glory grabs a TV feature

(Video) Amazing Contraption that Opens Blinds From dart boards to hairdryers and cell phones to chess pieces, this incredibly long apparatus utilizes all sorts of household items to achieve one goal: open the blinds.

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    Chess Strategies

Chess is a board game and mental-skill game for two players. It is played on a square board of eight rows, called ranks, and eight columns, called files, giving 64 squares of alternating colour, light and dark.

Each player begins the game with 16 pieces which can move in defined directions. Chess is a strategy game.