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Wu-Tang's RZA wins chess competition The round began with Monk aggressively and effectively trapping and snatching up many of RZA's pieces. At the point where many in the room felt it was curtains for RZA, the crowd surprisingly heard the words "checkmate". Surprisingly, "The Abbot of Wu-Tang" turned it around, winning the match with a back rank mate.

Artist Julio Aguilera Runs With the Bulls To Julio Aguilera, New York will always be Washington Square Park. Shortly after emigrating from Venezuela, he put his last $20 to work at the chess tables, walking away with more than $200 and a lifetime ban. Three decades and countless self-reinventions later, he has decided to honor his adopted city with the sculpture series New York Bull.

Chess Grandmaster Endorses Colbert-Putin '08! Garry Kasparov talks Russian politics and plays a game of Rock Em Sock Em Robots with Stephen Colbert. Enjoy!

Vishy's Blog: To be No 1, I stopped worrying about it In January this year, I was 15 points behind the World Chess Champion. Ivanchuk, the World Number I then, was at 2787 points. Obviously it was a big gap that seemed extremely difficult to patch in just one game. But I decided to set the anxiety aside and give the game my best shot. I stopped thinking about being Number I. [Vishwanathan Anand]

Real Time with Bill Maher: Kasparov on Democracy Here's Bill Maher's interview with Garry Kasparov to discuss his latest book How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom .Kasparov is currently challenging President Putin in Russia ( Here's the original link via the way back machine) and has assumed great risk in doing so, as Former KGB general Oleg Kalugi

BIll Maher and Gary Kasparov Play Chess If you caught Kasparov promoting his new book "how life imitates chess" on Bill Maher's show, you probably saw a man who explained things that most presidential candidates avoid these days. Why do we need a Russian chess master to explain to us what's really happening around us? Well, it seems we do

Bill Maher - Interview with Garry Kasparov Bill interviews Garry Kasparov, chess grandmaster, and a candidate for President of Russia. Both Bill and Chris Matthews remark on Kasparov's level of sophistication compared to American candidates for president.

Chessmaster: Grandmaster Edition Review and Screenshots Chessmaster: Grandmaster Edition expands the scope of chess to include broader principles of learning. Josh Waitzkin's much-anticipated book The Art of Learning (Free Press) is designed to pave the road to successful long-term growth on and off the chessboard. The eight-time National Chess Champion and two-time martial arts World Champion puts use

Rza Crowned Hip-Hop Chess Champ Wu-Tang Clan's Rza wins Chess championship belt

Jedi Knight Chess Variant Extremely fun chess variant which empowers the knight pieces and makes them more agile in their movements, like Jedi Knights

Life is filled with fun and humour: Check mate The braille chess board is made of wood and each of the 64 squares has a hole which can be felt by the sense of touch. The chess pieces have small nail - like projections at the bottom so as to fix in the holes for every move.

Chess puzzle chess puzzle, two rooks against a queen

The Democrats really do deserve what they get The Democrats have no game plan. They don't know how to sell meta issues. They play chess one piece at a time, one move at a time, without having any concept that there's a larger game going on, and that the move they make right now will impact the move they make ten moves from now. Basically, the Democrats are politically high as a kite.

RZA Goes Undefeated at Celebrity Chess Benefit The Hip-Hop Chess Federation ( HHCF) is proud to announce that after a long tumultuous battle, RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan walked away the winner of the 1st Annual Chess Kings Invitational Champion Belt.

Shakespeare, Celebs Missing Fingers, and Cartoon Dogs Who2 has quick-hit bios of homework heavyweights, celebs missing fingers, chess-playing computers and cartoon dogs. Including, sadly, Scrappy-Doo.

Intelli Chess - Perfect game for Chess lovers! IntelliChess is a chess game with a strong engine and ability to play over the Internet! 30-day moneback guarantee. You can take advantage of three difficulty levels, opening book, adjustable time control settings and Permanent brain functionBoard Editor

Top 5 Reasons to Own an Electronic Chess Set This article mentions the benefits of owning an electronic chess set or computer.

Chess Grandmaster Biographies Check out the world's champion chess players from around the world.

World chess champion Viswanathan Anand returns home Viswanathan Anand arrived here today, weeks after becoming the new World Chess Champion in Mexico.

Hexagonal chess hexagonal chess and how to play

Letter of a great chess master to his son! Cappablanca wrote this letter

Undisputed world chess champ Viswanathan Anand back in India Viswanathan Anand, the undisputed world chess champion, arrived back in India last night. He is among the greatest sportspersons India has ever produced. Let us give our flag bearer a welcome befitting the King of the world.

Harika at second spot Women GM and top seed D Harika kept herself in contention for the gold medal after beating compatriot Eesha Karavade in the ninth round of the World Junior Girls Chess Championship on Saturday.

One more Chak De moment in Indian sports in the form Viswanathan Anand. In the season of celebrating the Power of Blue, the apprehensions were probably genuine. A Made-in-India guy who learnt chess from his mother and went on to script the mother of all triumphs twice. Even in the ecstasy of an Indian sporting high, would he get the accolades a King deserves?

GETV meets Wu-Tang Look for the interview with RZA soon from the latest Hip Hop Chess Federation Event

Flash Chess 2.0 Chess as a platform? :)

Homeless man is chess king of Washington WASHINGTON (AFP) - He sleeps on a bench, but he is king of chess during the day at Washington's Dupont Circle, where he dazzles beginners and masters alike with his winning moves on the park's stone chessboards.

RZA and GZA Play With The Hip-Hop Chess If you love the game of chess, and you also love Hip Hop, the San Francisco Design Center (101 Henry Adams St) is where you need to be tomorrow (Saturday, October 13th) beginning at 10 a.m. so that you can witness the 1st Annual Chess Kings Invitational.

Another chess puzzle! chess puzzle

Homeless man is chess king of Washington He sleeps on a bench, but he is king of chess during the day at Washington's Dupont Circle, where he dazzles beginners and masters alike with his winning moves on the park's stone chessboards. He attends Alcoholic Anonymous meetings and admits, "when I don't drink my chess is better."

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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.