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Chess Strategies
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Learn about Chess
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Chess is a game of strategy
and tactics.
read the latest chess news about competitions and
effective strategies
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Christmas chess puzzles by John
Nunn
This year the traditional ChessBase Christmas
puzzle week is by an extraordinary personality,
world-class chess problemist (amongst other
things) John Nunn. Useful to keep your mind
alert during the festive season.
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Mega Database 2007
The exclusive annotated database. Contains
more than 3.5 millions games from 1560 to 2006
in the highest ChessBase quality standard. 60,000
games contain commentary from top players, with
ChessBase opening classification with more than
100,000 key positions, direct access to players,
tournaments, middlegame themes, endgames.
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New karaoke phone Z801 from Asus
There is new phone announced by Asus - the
new Z801- Karaoke mobile phone. It has a design
of a chess board. The Asus Z801 has a 2 megapixel
camera,
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Playing Backgammon Online
With the advent of the internet, the ability
to play online games has grown exponentially.
Chess, checkers and backgammon online games
are all very popular. What makes backgammon
online truly unique, however, is that the online
version of the venerable game is commonly played
for money through several online gaming sites.
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Play chess in this Google Desktop
gadget
You can now play chess with your friends
in the Multiplayer Chess gadget for the Google
Desktop sidebar. If you don't have any Google
Talk friends who know how to play, you can comment
here and maybe invite each other :)
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Asus Z801 karaoke phone
Asus has announced the new Z801- Karaoke
mobile phone. Resembling a mirror chess board,
the phone comes with a 2 megapixel camera, 260k
colour QVGA screen, MP3 player, tri-band connectivity,
and an A2DP.
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Pawn Breakthrough
Chess endgame lesson on how to create a
pawn breakthrough that will lead to pawn promotion.
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The Lord of the Rings Chess Set
Pieces - SAC Hand Painted
An epic storyline, and a gifted writer!
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien is adeptly
suited to the chessboard in this attention getting
4-1/2" theme chess set. In the magical land
of Middle-earth, Elves, Men, Dwarves, Hobbits,
Orcs, and many other creatures dwell; good against
evil is the constant struggle, and Tolkien has
chronicled many..
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Asus Z801 Karaoke Phone
Asus have announced its new Z801 which is
said to be the coolest phone. The Z801 looks
glorious with its chess-board styled phone keys
and Sapphire Quartz mirrored surface.
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Chess - Picking A Chess Set
Even though a lot of today’s chess is
played on the Internet or using software programmed
to throw the most formidable opponent at you,
there is still the opportunity to actually play
chess against another human being. And if you’re
going to do that you’re going to need a chess
set
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Finding The Best Chess Game Download
If you like to play chess and you can’t
find anyone to play with you should look for
chess game download sites on the Internet. The
advantage of using a chess game download is
that you can play on your own and at any time
you want to. You don’t have to wait for other
people in order to play.
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Invincible machines slap mankind
in the face
Deep Fritz, a multi-processor version of
the computer chess engine Fritz, beat World
Champion Vladimir Kramnik on December 12, 2006.
Many chess experts believe the latest match
may mark the end of a competition era between
man and machine in chess.
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Gifts for Charles Fascinate UK
Unusual gifts presented to Prince Charles
and Duchess of Cornwall by commoners during
their recent visit to Pakistan have generated
a lot of interest in the UK and their details
are being discussed here.The prince had to return
an unusual gift of a yak .....Read more at my
Blog !
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Java Open Review: Fixing the Bugs
and Filling the Holes
Fortify Software founder and chief scientist
Brian Chess says his company launched the Java
Open Review project with FindBugs because Sun
Microsystems' release of the JDK source code
means open source Java is stronger than ever.
The project aims to find and help plug the security
holes in Java-based open source programs.
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Chess murders' Russian charged
A Russian who reportedly said he wanted
to kill 64 people to correspond with the squares
on a chess board has been charged in Moscow
with 49 murders. He admits to 62 murders.
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Omissions In the Iraq Study Group
Report
The ISG did it by proposing 79 recommendations
supposedly comprising a change of course strategy
that, in fact, amounts to little more than moving
the existing chess pieces around the Iraq board,
ending up almost where we are now - in a hopeless
irresolvable quagmire...
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Chess Legend's Political Group Illegally
Raided by Anti-Terror Squad
A Russian anti-terror hit team raided the
offices of Garry Kasparov's oppositional "United
Civil Front" in Moscow with illegal search warrants,
after claims of "extremist activities" by the
ruling government. Kasparov, one of the greatest
chess players of all time, recently retired
from professional chess to focus on Russian
politics.
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Chess - The Summer Of 1972
Nobody knew what was about to take place.
Certainly nobody outside of the most knowledgeable
people in the game. But in the summer of 1972,
Bobby Fischer was about to play in the most
famous world chess tournament of all time against
Boris Spasky of the Soviet Union.
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Chess - Setup And Openings
When you become a master chess player, the
first few moves of the game become so mechanical
that these first few moves are often referred
to as openings
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Chess - Moving The Pieces
Now that you have a general idea of the
object of the game and the pieces involved,
the next step is to learn how to move these
pieces around the chess board. Learning how
to move the chess pieces is actually not very
difficult. Learning how to move them strategically
is another thing altogether.
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Chess - Black Or White
The experts have all concluded that in any
chess game, white has the advantage because
of the first move. While we’re not going to
dispute that, we are going to take a look at
whether or not playing white is going to ultimately
give you a better chance of winning.
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Adult Playgrounds
German city plans to build a playground
for adults. "There won't be any swings and roundabouts,
but there might be climbing frames, giant chess
boards and a place to play petanque..."
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The Basic Details Of The Game Of
Chess
The Chess Game was invented thousands of
years ago and right throughout its history it
has become known as the 'king' of board games.
Such people as Napoleon, Charlie Chaplin, Einstein
and Nikola Tesla where renowned for their chess
skills.
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Chess Strategies
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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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Chess Strategies
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