Fewer than 2 percent of the 47,000 members of the United States Chess Federation are masters — and just 13 of them are under the age of 14.
The British championship, which starts in Sheffield on Monday, is the strongest in the event's 107-year history, with almost all of England's top grandmasters taking part.
The Russian head of the World Chess Federation said Tuesday after playing chess with Moammar Gadhafi that the Libyan leader is open to talks with NATO and the country's rebels.
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He played some of the most sublime chess ever seen. Then, as a new book and film illustrate, he disappeared from view. What made such a brilliant mind go into freefall?
Kevin Kline likes roles that teach him something.
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The French chess federation has suspended three top players for violating sporting ethics at a chess olympiad in Siberia last September.
OK, here is part 3/3 of what I did in school last year. In this one I burnt, froze, and hacked up chess sets with an ax to show my love/hate relationship with the game. Part 1 was the alien worlds Part 2 was things breaking
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So I just finished a 3 quarter photography thingy at the University of Washington. Each quarter I chose a different subject and did a project (Q1=Alien World, Q2=Smash, Q3=Chess). So... I was going to inflict some of the photos on here (and to try out a poll).
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Bobby Fischer is not the father of a nine-year-old girl from the Philippines, a lawyer in Iceland said after the chess champion's remains were exhumed in July for DNA tests.
Authorities in Iceland have exhumed the body of American chess champion Bobby Fischer to determine whether he is the father of a 9-year-old girl from the Philippines.
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