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DIY transparent chess board DIY site Instructables has instructions on building your own plexiglass chess board. Sorry, make that a 3D chess board, so you can make like Kirk and Spock and really get your chess on.

Deep Blue vs Garry Kasparov: Was the game really fair? This documentary asks, and presents a few answers to, how Kasparov, the world's best chess player, lost to a machine, in what is arguably the most important game of chess ever played.

Vote-Chess -- The Largest Chess game Ever! Come be a part of the largest chess game ever played. Teams of 100+ players vote on moves, then the resulting move is made. The game begins as soon as the teas reach 100. Sign up, invite your friends -- I look forward to playing with you all!

Microsoft and IBM- Secret Plans codenamed Project Chess IBM decided to stick with making their own personal computer line and developed a brand new operating system to go with. The secret plans were referred to as "Project Chess". The code name for the new computer was"Acorn".

Animation: Chess game - You vs Computer All combinations and permutation generations of the chess game! Nice one! I guess it could be written using backtracking algorithm!

Maria Manakova in Speed Women's chess grandmaster speaks frankly about sex and chess.

Play Chess Anytime, Anywhere, And at Any Pace. GameKnot is an online chess website in which you can play Chess whenever you want and when you want. You're not forced to finish any game in one sitting. This site also offers a real-time version of Chess they call "Blitz Chess".

what the first e-mail looked like "Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess? "

you can play chess This is a great website where you can play chess with your friends

Muddy Waters - Rollin' Stone For the first single ever on Chess Records, Waters reworked Mississippi bluesman Robert Petway's "Catfish Blues" into a spare, spooky track he named "Rollin' Stone." "We wouldn't do it exactly like those older fellows," Waters said. "We put the beat with it, put a little drive to it." The Rolling Stones took their name from the title.

Microsoft's Vista 'Chess Titans' cheats the player Watch how Microsoft new operating system, ‘Vista,’ blatantly cheats when I finally have devised a strategy to win. First it was Windows XP’s solitaire, now its Microsoft’s Vista Chess Titans that cheats.

Jackson Free Press | BREAKING: D.A. Drops Bombshells In the game of legal chess that recent indictments of Jackson, Miss. Mayor Frank Melton have become, District Attorney Faye Peterson fired bombshells back at Melton and his attorney Dale Danks Tuesday, revealing that Melton and Danks had, in fact, negotiated the mayor's own plea deal with her weeks ago, before later reneging on the deal.

What it takes to be an "expert" in anything An analysis of expertise. Expert musicians, chess players, or scientists seem to owe their expertise to lengthy, arduous practice and not genes, IQ, etc. It is said that you must train/practice in your field for at least 10,000 hours before becoming an expert.

Fergie getting girly on The Dutchess After spending many years touring the world with her band of boys The Black Eyed Peas, singer Fergie was eager to show off a girly side when she went solo. The London Bridge singer, who recently released her first album The Dutchess, says that she wanted to show the ...

Google-Powered Free Game Search Engine Brand new search engine powered by google indexes over one hundred of the biggest sites with free playable online games (Flash, Shockwave, Java) so you can get your game on. Try searching for "diablo" or "geography" or "chess".

Chess: Not Every Email from Africa is Spam Not every piece of email from Africa is asking you to help move $24 million. A Peace Corps volunteers was asking for help to equip his classroom with a few chess sets. Of course, Fed Ex doesn't not do overnight to Namibia.

Greatest Chess Master of All Time Two professors have used scientific principles to discover who was truly the greatest chess master in history. The results might surprise you.

Yahoo! Backdoors Get into Yahoo games when they are full! These links are backdoors to get into Yahoo! games room when they are full. There are links for Pool, Chess, Literati and all other Yahoo! games.

The Immortal Game: A Book Review David Shenk has produced one of my all time favorite books period. His book the Immortal Game is so much more than the usual sterile collection of games. David was able to convey the majesty and contribution that chess has made in shaping our world.

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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.