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Travel Chess Set - Wood Chess Set,
Chess Board Game
A round chess set? That s right! This 13
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round and includes a pull-out drawer for storing
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You will enjoy playing chess on this beautifully
crafted round chess set!
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Kasparov Warns of˜Chaos in Russia
After serving a five-day sentence for leading
an opposition march, Garry Kasparov, the former
chess champion, warned today that Russia was
heading toward chaos under President Vladimir
V. Putin.
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School official embezzles $30,000
from school Chess Club
A former official at a D.C. school for emotionally
disturbed children has pleaded guilty to federal
charges of stealing $30,000 in donations to
the Moten Center's chess club in 2003 when she
was the school's business manager.
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Ivana Furtado wins gold at World
Youth chess
New Delhi, Nov 29 : Ivana Furtado of Goa
has retained the World under-8 girls' title
at the end of the eleventh and final round of
the World Youth chess championships at Antalya,
Turkey.
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KGB Inc. - Craige McMillan looks
at Garry Kasparov's quest for Putin's job
Garry Kasparov retired from chess several
years ago, but he hasn't retired from the game
of chess. Rather, he has expanded his chessboard
and is now engaged in the game of his life.
Rest assured: You and I are on the chessboard.
"He supports Iran and Syria because he [Putin]
needs tension because tension helps oil prices.",
said Kasparov.
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Iran's Secret Weapon: The Pope
The diplomatic chess game around Iran's
nuclear program includes an unlikely bishop.
According to several well-placed Rome sources,
Iranian officials are quietly laying the groundwork
necessary to turn to Pope Benedict XVI and top
Vatican diplomats for mediation if the showdown
with the United States should escalate toward
a military intervention.
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How to build a chess repertoire
This wordy article gives some useful advice
on how to go about building a chess repertoire
without a lot of memorizing lines. A good approach
for the improving chess amateur.
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World Cup 2007 - results round 2,
game 2 - Radjabov lost again
FIDE Chess World Cup 2007 takes place in
Khanty-Mansiysk (Russia), November 22 - December
18, 2007.Teimour Radjabov lost again in his
2nd game from round 2 against Bartlomiej Macieja
(POL). In 12 matches the result after 2nd game
of round 2 is equal, so tomorrow 24 players
will fight for 12 positions in round 3. Magnus
Carlsen experienced...
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Chess Opening: Philidor Defense
Eighteenth century chess player Fran�ois-Andr�
Danican Philidor advocated this opening in contrast
to 2 %u2026 Nc6. Currently it is not a popular
opening and is perceived as a cramping and inert
defensive opening for Black.
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Chess Openings: Petrov's Defense
This old opening was popularized in the
nineteenth centaury by Russian player Alexander
Petrov (sometimes spelled as Petroff). In some
countries it is called Russian Game.
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Chess Openings: Italian Game
Italian game is one of the openings mentioned
in the famous G�ttingen Chess manuscript produced
in 1490. It was further analyzed and developed
during the sixteenth century by Italian players
Damiano and Polerio and during seventeenth by
Greco.
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Shanda Appoints New Senior Vice
President Donald Chan to Head New In-game A
is a leading interactive entertainment media
company in China. Shanda offers a portfolio
of diversified entertainment content including
some of the most popular massively multi-player
online role-playing games (MMORPGs) and casual
online games in China, as well as online chess
and board games, network PC games and a variety
of cartoons, literature
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Chess Openings: Scotch Game
Scotch Game is so named because of a correspondence
chess match played between London and Edinburgh
in 1824. While popular in nineteenth century
it lost popularity during most of the twentieth
century. However, it has enjoyed a revival in
popularity in recent years.
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Play Free Chess Online
Become a member of the chess maniac Club
and find out if you have what it takes to play
simultaneous chess with opponents from around
the world. First, Members can play unlimited
online chess games. Second, Members can create
their own online chess tournaments, online chess
teams and online chess clubs, and more!!
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Is Putin trying to save Russia or
himself?
An analysis by an insider in a human rights
NGO in Russia. This is before the actual demonstrations
that led to the arrest and imprisonment of chess
champion Gary Kasparov.
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Homeless man is chess king of Washington
He sleeps on a bench, but he is king of
chess during the day at Washington's Dupont
Circle, where he dazzles beginners and masters
alike with his winning moves on the park's stone
chessboards. He attends Alcoholic Anonymous
meetings and admits, "when I don't drink my
chess is better."
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Chess legend Kasparov gets 5 days
in jail for protest
A Russian judge sentenced opposition leader
Garry Kasparov to five days in jail Sunday,
a day after the chess champion-turned-politician
and other protesters were arrested at a pro-democracy
demonstration in Moscow.
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Former Chess Champion Kasparov Arrested
in Street Protest Denouncing Putin
Former chess champion and opposition figurehead
Garry Kasparov and dozens of other anti-Kremlin
demonstrators were arrested Saturday as they
marched along a slushy downtown street hollering,
"Russia without Putin!" Riot police pounced
on the activists and stuffed them into police
vans after they pushed ahead with a banned pre-election
march.
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Moscow cops suppress democracy march,
arrest Kasparov
Riot police broke up a march against President
Vladimir Putin in the Russian capital Saturday
and arrested chess legend Garry Kasparov and
several other opposition leaders, a clampdown
on pro-democracy protesters a week before Russia's
pivotal parliament election.
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The Shredder chess programs have already
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are leading in all important computer chess
rating lists and are accepted as the best chess
programs. Get the Macintosh version with a huge
discount at MacUpdate.com promotion today.
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Gary Kasparov was arrested in Moscow
Russian police have detained opposition
leader and former world chess champion Garry
Kasparov and other critics of President Putin
at a rally in Moscow organised by Mr Kasparov's
Other Russia coalition. About 3,000 protesters
attended, including for the first time the leader
of one of the mainstream liberal parties –
a sign that the movement is...
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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.
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