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Chess Tournamet Barring all FIDE rated players t?s unique in the sense that it is open to :NON-FIDE RATED PLAYERS only !! Please tell me if you have heard of any other tourney in the world that is similiar to this.

8 Queen on A Chessboard Program in ANSI C Though instead of starting queen placement at predefined position (at 0,0 or at a corner), 1st queen placement in first row can be specified by user. An fun web page is created with CGI/PERL script where above algorithm can be seen in work. This program is iterative rule based algorithm. Implementation is mainly C.

jin:the best linux internet chess client the best linux internet chess client these days is the client http://chesslin.wordpress.com/chess. Written in java and quite pretty

Freakonomics - A Star Is Made, Not Born Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt are at it again with this Freakonomics article studying expert performers in a wide range of pursuits, including soccer, golf, surgery, piano playing, Scrabble, writing, chess, software design, stock picking and darts.

Derren Brown Chess Moves Derren Brown is a unique force in the world of illusion - he can seemingly predict and control human behaviour. Here in this video, he plays against nine chess masters simultaneously. Can he pull off a victory?

Napoleon Vs. The Turk - The Play! Hey everyone... blatant self-promotion here. I've written a play based on the chess match between Napoleon and The Turk, the famous automated chess-playing machine, which was actually a big hoax. It's playing this summer in Toronto at the Toronto Fringe Festival.

Sony and Sega Torture Mario with a Car Battery ....in order to get Nintendo man to reveal info about Starfox 64. The chessiest Nintendo-made video I've ever seen.

Chessmaster Review This review is perhaps the most in-depth review of Chessmaster (9000 and 10) available anywhere on the Internet, among over 20 that I have read. Screenshots and explanations of each function in this multifaceted teaching app. You *will* get better at chess using this, and here's why, etc.

Computer Chess on an 8x8x8 board Ever seen one of those multi-tiered chess boards on a sci-fi movie/TV show and wanted to play? This is something I wrote while learning Java and it seems to be popular so I thought I'd share. Freeware of course :-), works on XP and I'm told OSX (though I haven't tested that). JRE 1.5 Enjoy!

A Beginner's Garden of Chess Openings... "The first moves of a chess game are termed the "opening" or "opening moves". A good opening will provide better protection of the King, control over an area of the board (particularly the center), greater mobility for pieces, and possibly opportunities to capture opposing pawns and pieces."

March of the AJAX Games It seems the evolution of games that happened on the PC and on-line is repeating itself in the AJAX arena. First come the board games -- see Ajax Chess, 64Pola, and Morfiks -- and the muds -- hive7, then the low fidelity arcade games, then the first person shooter games.

Wealth of Networks : ouvrage gratuit Yochai Benkler, professeur de droit à l?Université Yale, a compris que les réseaux recèlent une immense richesse. Il vient de publier The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom qu?il offre généreusement sous licence Creative Commons (source : Elearnspace).

Bid To Play Chess With Garry Kasparov The Kasparaov Chess Foundation is auctioning a game to take place on June 12 at Manhattan's New York Athletic Club.

Chess Boxing! Here it is! In-between rounds of a brainy game of chess, take a break and beat the crap out of your opponent! You can win by checkmate or KO.

Content Is NOT King! "I know, you have heard on every freaking seo page and forum that content is King. Well I hate to break it to you, but content is NOT King! It's merely a pawn in the great game of chess!"

These crazy Germans could kick Kasparov's ass!! Take a dash of testosterone, mix in 1/3 cup of chess geeks, add sexy ring girls, techno music and what do you get? German Chess Boxing! Awesome!

First Implementation of an Online JavaScript/AJAX Chess Engine Chess was first played by the ancient Persians some 5,000 years ago. Now a 21st century technology brings the game to our browsers via an innovative AJAX approach.

Morfik's Implementation of Chess using Ajax : Version 0.4 released Morfik recently released the new version of the Morfik Chess Game. This alpha-version Chess game can be played as a single player or a multi-player networked game.

World's first implementation of a chess engine in JavaScript Today Morfik released version 0.4 of the Morfik Chess application. This application uses a JavaScript chess engine developed with WebOS AppsBuilder so that it can run in the browser. The source code is open and we hope interested individuals will take on the challenge to work with us to take this application or its descendants to the next level.

InfoChess combines PsyOps, Intelligence, Electronic Warfare The board game credibly teaches the principles of psychological operations, military deception, operations security, electronic warfare, and physical destruction, mutually supported by intelligence, to deny information to, influence, degrade, or destroy an adversary?s capabilities while protecting friendly capabilities against such actions.

Kasparov cheated Not a new story but it's a video commentary of a game where former World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov cheated.

http://digg.com/software/New_BOINC_Project:_Chess960@Home_Alpha Using the BOINC framework, the same as SETI@Home, we want to give this chess variant some basics in theory of this game. We know the fascination of this chess variant is the incredible amount of variations. That will not change with this project but some guidelines seems to be useful in each starting position."

Blind Chess and Working Memory Why is it possible to play blind chess and still have difficulties with remembering short sequences of digits (like phone numbers)?

Telcos checkmate net neutrality. Bring on the mesh (or I'll move to France) Maybe now, the citizens of the US will recognize a largely overlooked 2005 FCC ruling for what it was: the clever positioning of a bishop in a high stakes game of chess that looks to have ended today with a checkmate of Internet neutrality (aka "net neutrality").

Creating an on-line chess site A story about creating a chess site. Interesting for chess fans, and also interesting from a technology point of view. Illustrates the possible uses for xmlhttp.

Awesome One-Off Sketchbooks Made from Discarded Library Books I want the "Born of Heat and Pressure" piece. Other titles include "Your Wonderful Teeth", "Chess Battle Strategies" and "Understanding Radioactivity".

take down your targets! a GPS phone tag game If you are tired of playing chess on your mobile phone you should try this game.

Non-Prejudice Chess Set Redesign of an ancient game. The idea behind the concept is to get away of picturing society in the figures. Here the figures show how they can be played, simply that, nothing else...

World Champ and a mom On the 25th March 2006, WGM Xu Yuhua became the 11th Women World Champion. She dispatched IM Alisa Galliamova of Russia in the finals with a winning score of 2.5-0.5. All this is well known from reports from Chessbase. What was not publicised was she was 4 months pregnant!! I think that?s a first for women chess.

Bang! Howdy - a promising new indie game Described on slashdot as "Chess + Mario Kart + Real Time/ Turn-Based + SteamPunk Westerns + Secret Sauce" Featured on GDC.

Online Chess Interview with Grandmaster Susan Polgar Winner of 4 Women's World Championships The only World Champion in history (male or female) to win the Triple-Crown (Rapid, Blitz and Classical World Championships) 5-time Olympic Champion with 10 overall medals. Never been defeated in Olympiad competition (5 Gold, 4 Silver, and 1 Bronze)

##SkyOps has a new game that needs your review - tell us what you think Think back thousands of years to the beginning of chess... Now think what it would be like to own the rights to license or sell it! We are looking for developers, VCs or angel investors to help take Quazix to the next level. This strategic, thinking-man's game has developed a following with little to no marketing. What we could do with your input!

Chess prodigy that isn't a geek Don't call the 18-year-old boy king of chess -- defending his title this weekend -- a geek. He rules a new generation of champs raised on hip-hop and video games.

Get in on the ground level of an international game sensation! Ever thought about having the license & selling rights to chess? With PCTs & US patents pending, we are looking for developers,VCs or angels to take Quazix to the next level. Participants at the Global Chess Challenge & local TC events can attest 2 the interest in the game. The photos speak for themselves -would U know a good thing when you saw it?

CHESS FOR BEGINNERS EXCELLENT SQUIDOO LINKS TO FIVE STAR CHESS SITES FOR YOUNGSTERS OF ALL AGES! BESTEST...LW

3D Pool Table Old enough to remember thinking Star Trek 3D Chess looked really cool but, you know, you just really weren?t into chess? You?ll get a kick out of the Zocker Toys 3D Pool Table.

Quadradius = kick ass flash game This guy I go to school with put this together. It's like chess on steroids.

Rock, Paper, Scissors: World RPS Society RPS is gaming at its most basic, its most fundamental. Take anything away, and it ceases to be a game at all. Every other game, at some level, contains RPS. Like chess or fencing, the rules are simple, but the game itself is as complex as the mind of your opponent.

The long chess game of VMware Where is VMware going? It's ready to face upcoming Microsoft competition? Customers should be afraid of adopting VMware technologies considering it could be doomed? Read what's happening now and what could come in this insight.

Masters of Chinese chess to battle it out against robots Masters of Chinese chess are to face the ultimate challenge later this year when they battle it out against a team of robots

 

    Chess Strategies

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.