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Tomb Chess -- Undead warriors fight it out in the graveyard
In Tomb Chess, your goal is to wipe out the enemy undead army in the graveyard. Start by clicking a tomb to raise a ghoul. There's a 50/50 chance as to whether it'll be a friendly or enemy ghoul. Hover your pointer over the ghoul to check the ghoul's strength, then use it to attack the enemies. Your can attack any ghoul of equal or lesser strength.

Play Chess Online with Your Friends
I have found this new site where you can invite your friend to play chess with you. Nicely done, no software to install. AJAX web application. Really impressed.

Hawick chess
The call of the wild: a man's quest to play chess against the elements.

Chess fitness
Getting physically fit to play top level tournament chess

Friday chess puzzles 10: Solutions
Solutions to the latest Friday chess puzzles on Chess Tales. Includes two sparkling finishes by Réti, and Alekhine's notes to Réti - Bogoljuboff at New York 1924... one of the greatest games of chess ever played.

G7 Play Thermonuclear Chess with Putin
The most significant outcome of the recent G8 Summit at Heiligendamm was the shrewd chess play by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on the US Missile Defense strategy for Europe.

Chess Pieces Gone Wild!
This chess game is played...without players! The pieces themselves went to war against each other. Guess what they did after the fight...

Chess photos: another blog
Discovering a blog full of wonderful chess photos, including the odd and unusual

chess - King's Indian Defence: Fashion Victim?
Martin Seeber writes for Chess Tales on where now for the King's Indian Defence?

Play Chess against the computer and see it thinking about the next move
Play chess against a transparent intelligence, its evolving thought process visible on the board before you. If the viewer confronts the program, the computer's thought process is sketched on screen as it plays

How to beat the Fritz chess program
Cool guide how to beat the Fritz chess program!

Chess Computers - Handheld Electronic Chess from ChessBaron
Every major chess computer available here

The Delights of Chess
Talks about Amercian Grandmaster William Lombardy (Fischer's second), a surprising portrait from the "The Delights of Chess" by William Lombardy.

Chess picture challenge
The latest chess picture challenge features two young Soviets at the 1989 European Junior Championships, who both went on to become 'Super-Grandmasters'.

Chess in the attic: February 1989
Includes three surprise names in the Candidates chess quarter finals, Kasparov threatening to boycott FIDE, the arrival of two American GMs to bolster the Bundesliga, and three Englishmen in the world's top 10 players.

Chess in the attic: Leningrad 1963
Looks at Leonid Stein's victory in the exceptionally strong USSR Chess Championships in Leningrad in 1963

Amazing chess photos / videos
Discovering a brazilian chess site with fascinating old photos and videos that include Fischer, Keres, Tal, Capablanca and Alekhine

Assad's Gambit
Seven prominant anti-Syrians have been killed in Lebanon in the past two years. Many Lebanese think that Syria has a hand in the slayings. Cartoonists Cox & Forkum present an impression of this violent chess game.

Robot plays Air Hockey
IBM's Deep Blue beat Gary Kasparov at chess. How long before we see a robot air hockey champion? Not long, if the Air Hockey Project in the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign continues to progress.

CNN and YouTube Discuss the Most Lamocratic Debate Format, Like, EVAR!
Instead of listening to Blitzer for 15-20 total minutes, we'll watch 20-30 user-submitted 30 second videos. But how is that "more democratic" if CNN picks which ones to play or omit? How about letting us actually pick them? And how about a novel democratic concept: start and stop "chess clocks" to obey the "equal time" rule for each candidate?

Friday chess puzzles 10
The latest Friday chess puzzles from Chess Tales, featuring 2 elegant finishes by Richard Réti.

How to Get Kids Hooked on Fishing
I could try to tell you how to catch whopper walleye, but my advice would be about as reliable as suggestions for chess strategy. But there's one area of fishing for which I am confident in my skills, ability and first-hand knowledge. That is the realm of getting kids interested in fishing...

Chess and Poker
Chess players making it big in the world of Poker. Includes women's chess Grandmaster Almira Skripchenko playing in the World Poker Championship, and the growth of online gaming.

USCF Dues $588 Per Year?
I was enjoying flipping through my copy of the June 2007 Chess Life magazine, with its nice articles, interviews and photos.Then I came to page 13, which contains an ad which begins, "Get Chess Life for $49 a month."

Friday chess puzzles 9: the solutions
The solutions to the latest Friday chess puzzles on Chess Tales

Israeli grandmaster seals place in chess World Championship
Israeli chess grandmaster Boris Gelfand reached the finals Monday at the Candidates Matches in Elista, Russia, winning a place in the World Championship in Mexico City this September.

Man vs. Machine in Upcoming Texas Hold 'Em Tournament
One of the best known matches between man and machine at a game is the IBM Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov chess series. Now researchers from the University of Alberta, Canada, are putting computers up against the pros of Texas Hold 'Em Poker.

Free Chess E-Books From The Bookyards Library
Bookyards has completed its section on chess, thereby making available a small collection of ebooks that specialize on all facets of the game.This chess section includes ebooks on chess problems, lists of games and analysis, as well as general introductory books on chess.

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