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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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Swapping the French
bishop
Chess: Examines two ideas in
the French Defence where Black looks to effect
an early exchange of his bad bishop. |
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SQLChess - A tutorial on thinking
in sets
Chess makes a fantastic game
for programming examples. Unfortunately, most of
these examples do not use a database or if they
do, treat the database as nothing more than a
storage repository. In this series of articles
we will use SQL Server and T-SQL to implement
the game of chess with an emphasis on thinking
in sets. |
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Public school offers pupils a
chance to make smart move
A leading
independent school in the UK is offering a
£65,000 chess scholarship as part of a drive to
open up access to children of all backgrounds
and talents. Whereas most scholarships are are
for pupils that show exceptional academic,
sporting or musical ability, Millfield school in
Somerset is seeking chess talents. |
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Concept: OLED based Chinese chess
board
Simulate playing Go (a
strategic board game for two players) wherever
whenever with a touch of technology. The styling
uses the traditional calligraphy and painting of
the open-book system and the OLED board can be
rolled up like a scroll and conveniently
transported. Endless entertainment. |
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Epic chess game photo
question
The latest photo challenge
from Chess Tales asks you to name the 2 famous
chess players watching an epic encounter between
Viktor Korchnoi and Garry Kasparov |
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How To Build a Chess
Board
Building an heirloom-quality chess or checkers
board with a surprisingly small amount of wood.
This is a great project for using up some small,
otherwise unusable pieces of wood you may have
laying around your shop. It's very easy to build
even with woodworking hobbyist tools, and it
doesn't consume a lot of expensive wood.
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Aesthetic vs Practical in
Chess
Looks at the paradox between
pleasure and perfection in Chess, illustrated
with games that featured 2 beautiful, but not
necessarily strongest moves. |
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Java Fest to feature free coffee,
live music May 20 on East Colfax
The
metro area's only festival dedicated to the
pursuit of java nirvana features coffee
samplings, live music by Bop Skizzum, Wendy Woo,
Xiren and deja vu, belly dancing by Aphrodite, a
market, chair massage, life-size chess, an
Ethiopian coffee ceremony at 10 a.m.,
handwriting analysis and much more. Admission,
activities and samplings are free. |
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Great new kind of chess on line
game - "Frontiers" - Brilliant!
This
is a new type of chess game, but this time each
player has two teams to manage. The rules are a
bit different but the principle is the same.
This game was shown yesterday on an Israeli TV
channel, and it has a lot of money invested in
it's development. You can play against the
computer or against another opponent on line.
Very very cool. |
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Prominent Putin critics arrested
ahead of EU-Russia summit
Moscow -
Russian police arrested prominent government
critics Friday ahead of an EU-Russia summit that
is to start later in the day.Opposition
politician and former chess champion Garry
Kasparov; Eduard Limonov, the founder of the
banned National Bolshevik Party; and
human-rights advocate Lev Ponomaryov were
arrested at the Moscow airport as the |
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Unique 4 Person Chess Board
Game
Chess44 - Chess "Four Four", is
a very fun and imaginative chess set that allows
4 people to play at the same time. No more
watching your two friend play with themselves.
Join in on the action with Chess44. |
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The Giant Chess Set
It
won’t be an exaggeration to say that those who
have an obsession for chess do not mind going
overboard to pamper their gaming instincts and
this giant sized ches game is one such way of
pampering |
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USB Chess Set
Super
cool USB Chess Set that travels well and allows
you to play others through email. Also you can
save your game via a jpg. file. |
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Chess champions
Webber
J. Charles, an art teacher at Edison Park
Elementary School, seemed an unlikely choice to
coach the chess team when it was started two
years ago. |
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Why Humans Are Losing To Computers
In Chess
Ten years ago today, a
computer beat the world chess champion in a
six-game match. Since then, human champs have
played three more matches against machines,
scoring two draws and a loss. Grandmasters are
being crushed. This article examines why. |
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Name the chess
players
Photo teaser on Chess Tales
to name the two chess players playing one of the
most famous games |
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How 2: Photo Editing (using online
tools for ultra mobile devices)
In
certain old school mainstream tech media I've
seen benchmarking of ultra mobiles that includes
running the venerable image editor PhotoShop
from Adobe. Like chess that takes 2 hours to
learn and a lifetime to master Photoshop is the
most powerful tool around for editing your
images. But I'd argue that its not the right
tool for an ultra mobile d |
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The Age of the
Supercomputer
Ten years ago, Deep
Blue beat a world chess champion. Now
supercomputers are poised to move into the
business world in a big way. |
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Only Nerds Play Chess? Not True At
All
Photogenic collection from the
Torino Chess Olympiad 2006 generated enormous
interests from around the world with over 10,000
people taking part in the vote. The voting has
closed and these are the votes for the most
photogenic players at the Torino 2006 Chess
Olympiads. Check out the Top 20 most photogenic
players. |
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Chess improvement 7: Tactical
awareness
The latest improvement tip
from Chess Tales. Looks at the importance of
tactics in chess, and gives a list of
recommended resources (books, dvds and Internet)
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Galcon - Conquer the Galaxy in
five minutes!
Galcon is an awesome
high-paced multi-player galactic action-strategy
game. You send swarms of ships from planet to
planet to take over the galaxy. This is the most
addictive game since World of Warcraft! It's as
strategy-driven as Chess, and features
one-player action in addition to insane
multiplayer games of up to 12 players! |
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Chess on Peep
Show
Chess makes it onto Britain's
top TV comedy, Peep Show. You can watch the
whole episode online. |
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Chess: la question people du
mercredi
A super photo of one of the
great chess tournaments of the early 20th
Century, with competitors including Capablanca,
Lasker, Alekhine, Rubinstein, Tarrasch and
Nimzowitsch. The challenge is to name the
tournament. |
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Friday chess puzzle
5
The latest Friday chess puzzles
from Chess Tales, featuring two kings getting
hunted down |
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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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