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Intensity Cools After 2 More Draws in Chess Championship
New York Times
After the fireworks and decisive results of Games 7 and 8, the world chess championship match between Viswanathan Anand, the titleholder, and Boris Gelfand, lapsed back into relative calm as Games 9 and 10 were drawn on Wednesday and Thursday.
World Chess Championships: All India Chess Federation fails to cash in on the duelIndia Today
Chess: Gelfand, Anand's Game 11 ends with tieYnetnews
Viswanathan Anand draws in penultimate round tooNDTV
RIA Novosti -Times of India
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Bugbee Chess Team Wins State Championship
Patch.com
On Sunday, May 20, the Bugbee Elementary School Chess Team, the Yellow Jackets, in their first tournament competition, won 1st place at the annual UCONN Scholastic K-8 Chess Tournament, held in Storrs. The Jackets, made up of six (6) students from the ...
Bugbee chess team named Grand Champions at Scholastic K-8 tourneyWest Hartford News

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Book Review: Chess Is Child's Play by Laura Sherman and Bill Kilpatrick
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
ORG Chess Is Child's Play by Laura Sherman and Bill Kilpatrick is an excellent book for teaching young children how to play chess. The authors begin by explaining the benefits of learning to play chess early in life. Children learn the rudiments of ...

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Columbus Dispatch
On Chess: High standards credited to Fischer
Columbus Dispatch
Before the rise of Bobby Fischer, international chess — even among the vaunted Soviets — was sometimes a quasi-amateur affair. Several of the top Soviet grandmasters depended on inspiration rather than diligence and preparation.


Asian Chess: Indian men win silver; bronze for women
Rediff
Indian men's team thrashed Iraq 4-0 to win silver while their women counterparts bagged a bronze in the Asian Nations Chess Cup that concluded in Zaozhuang, China on Saturday. Top rated K Sasikiran rested himself while P Harikrishna, Parimarjan Negi, ...

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AFP
With ostriches and chess, US campaign ad goes viral
AFP
"Along the way I learned chess in Iceland," he says, before making a move with a glass chess piece on a board conveniently perched next to the dusty track. "I have a lifetime of experience. From Eisenhower to Obama. From Vietnam to Afghanistan," the ...
South Dakota's Jeff Barth on His Viral Campaign Ad, Riding Animals, and ChessNew York Magazine
Jeff Barth: A Candidate So Qualified He Plays Chess on the TrailABC News (blog)
"I've ridden an ostrich": US candidate tells public why they should vote for himWA today

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USA TODAY
Collins, Rivers chess match may be key for Game 7
Daily Local News
By DENNIS DEITCH PHILADELPHIA -- As the 76ers prepare for the basketball challenge of most of their professional lives Saturday in Boston, the test for Doug Collins will be to find a way to buck the trend that has been a coaching chess match between ...
2-on-2: Celtics vs. 76ers (Game 5)ESPN (blog)

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Let Them Play Chess...
WMC-TV
Memphis City Schools are out for the summer, and some kids are playing it smart with a game of chess. The Lester Chess Team stopped in the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library on the 2nd floor for a few games of early morning chess.

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India Today
Viswanathan Anand vs Boris Gelfand: Nerves hold the key in closing stages of ...
India Today
Nerves more than past reputation could hold the key in the closing stages of the ongoing World Chess Championships at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. A lot of beliefs and predictions have already been thrown out of the window.


Inside the Texas Chess Game
National Journal
By Sean Sullivan David Dewhurst is hitting Tom Leppert with a negative TV ad ... even though he'd rather face the former Dallas mayor in a runoff, compared to Ted Cruz. With only four days left until the Republican primary, the frontrunning lieutenant ...

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