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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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8 Queens of Death Game
Can 8 queens be placed on a chess board
without killing each other. Yes, but it's not
easy.
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Gary Kasparov cheats against Judit
(Judith) Polgar, the best woman in chess
Scroll down to bottom of page to read the
Kasparov touch-move controversy -- there is
apparently a video of the former world champion
cheating in a tournament! Washington Post reports
it was caught on camera by a Spanish television
crew. In his game against Judit Polgar "...
saw he might lose material, he took [it] back,
and made a different move."
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Algorithm helps computers beat humans
at Go
Computers can beat some of the world's top
chess players, but the most powerful machines
have failed at the popular Asian board game
Go, in which human intuition has so far proven
key.
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16-Year-Old Defeats World's Top-Rated
Chess Player
Magnus Carlsen defeats one of the strongest
players in the world, and then shows the horrified
former world champion the proper defense immediately
after he had resigned. Now the 16-year-old Norwegian
once again leads the tournament.
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Unbelievable Statistics about the
Almighty Jewish Race
Jews only make up 1/4 of 1% of the world's
population but they have won 21% of Nobel Prizes.
60% of the Top 20 People of the 20th Century
and 23% of the wealthiest in Canada and America
are Jewish. Harvard's student body is about
30% Jewish each year and 50% of World Chess
Champions are Jewish.
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Chess on your cel phone?
ChessBase is currently testing new software
that will give you direct access to the Playchess.com
server on your cellphone.
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Top Quality Chess Sets From Around
The World!
We offer a wide selection of chess supplies,
at great prices!We have chess sets to cater
for all ages, tastes and budgets, from inexpensive
wooden sets for beginners, to craftsman created
products for connoisseurs and collectors, or
simply as superb gifts!
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Review of Winning Chess Puzzles
for Kids
I recently reviewed Jeff Coakley's superbly
fun book Winning Chess Puzzles for Kids for
ChessCafe and this review is currently posted
at their book review page.My comments begin:"Immediately
upon opening Jeff Coakley’s Winning Chess
Puzzles for Kids, the reader will be struck
with the feeling that this is a fun book ..."
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Bishop and Rook's Pawn Ending
In Steve Giddins' excellent new book 101
Chess Endgame Tips, published by Gambit Publications,
he states, "It is well known that bishop + rook's
pawn do not win if the bishop does not control
the queening square and the [opposing] king
can get in the corner." This post shows how
Giddins demonstrates both correct and incorrect
play.
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Manual Chess: The System
Here is a recommendation to beginning/intermediate
chess players regarding the opening 13 moves
or so.
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3D Chess
High quality enjoyable 3D chess game ! Check
it out !
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Chess Grandmaster robbed in Mexico.
Withdraws from tournament.
Demanded 100,000 EU as compensation from
the organizers, withdrew when they failed to
comply the demand. Teimour Radjabov was the
youngest player ever to make the FIDE Top 100
Players list, he was 14 years old in January
2002, when ranked 93rd in the world, with a
rating of 2599.
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Manual Chess: The Board
Traditionally, a chess board is made of
wood. Mine is glass. Either will do. I find
glass more reflective and less absorbent. I
spill things sometimes. Whether yours is glass
or wood, you will probably find that there are
many others like it....
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ChessSuccessSecrets 3.162
Chess Success Secrets ! Discover How To
Dramatically Improve Your Chess Skills and Start
Whipping Your Opponents In Less Moves Than Ever
Before !
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HOWTO Build an Awesome High Quality
Wood Chessboard
This tutorial will show you how to build
an heirloom-quality, all-wood chess or checkers
board with just a few small pieces of lumber.
This is a great project for using up some small,
otherwise unusable pieces of wood you may have
laying around your shop. Great Tutorial.
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JOINING THE HOUSE'S DEBATE ON IRAQ
AND OUR MUCH-TROUBLED WORLD
Let's start by saying, we're sorry, we were
wrong. Then we can rectify the history of the
Middle East over the past century of colonialism,
war, treachery and neo-colonialism. We tell
the truth: We screwed them because of geo-politics,
the "Great Chessboard," their resources and
our needs and greed.
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The Ultimate Battle: Analog vs.
Digital Chess Set
My friend from work took scraped electronic
parts and created a chess set: Analog vs. Digital.
Most of the Analog players are made out of vacuum
tubes, resistors, and transformers. The Digital
Players are made out of IC Chips, transistors,
and capacitors.
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The Different Types of Chess Sets
Chess is widely considered to be the oldest
of all board games. It is a sport in more than
a few countries, and a test of skill played
by millions the world over. Modern chess sets
have 32 pieces, 16 black and 16 white, on a
board comprised of 64 squares.
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Prince Charles wife to undergo hysterectomy
The Duchess of Cornwall is all set for a
"routine" hysterectomy procedure, but it is
not for cancer, according to officials at Clarence
House. Camilla is scheduled to have the surgery
done in early March, and will be in hospital
for several days.
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Kasparov's Gambit
Garry Kasparov (the chess master) says that
Vladimir Putin's petro-Kremlin autocracy may
be more brittle than it seems. His take on Russia
and Putin's rule--very interesting. No "In Soviet
Russia" jokes, please. Unless you can make it
funny.
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THE STORES OF THE WORDS : Chess,Check
The words check, chess and shah are all
related. Shah is a borrowing into English of
the Persian title for the monarch of that country.
The Persian word shah was also a term used in
chess, a game played in Persia long before it
was introduced to Europe.
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Bright sparks for Gifted Children
In the book Bring up a Genius! the author's
favourite sayings was Geniuses are made, not
born. He raised three world class champion chess
players -- just by spending time with them in
their early dev. How much time and money is
wasted on talent searches for smart kids? What's
the real secret to bringing up a genius child?
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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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