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RECENTLY, I have spent far too much time playing chess at the Internet Chess Club ICC at www.chess club.com. It's an addiction, and no doubt it will pass: I'm not intending to set up a branch of "Virtual Chessplayers Anonymous" - although, come to think of it, that would be...
Rashid Nezhmetdinov (1912-74) was one of the greatest attacking chess players ever. Remarkably little-known for such a prodigious talent, he was the only man ever to become a Soviet Master at both chess and draughts and had a plus score against Mikhail Tal. Born in Aktiubinsk, Nezhmetdinov...
NEW DELHI AFP — Reigning world chess champion Vishwanathan Anand of India said Tuesday that he hoped his sport would one day be included in the Olympic Games as a medal discipline. The bespectacled Anand, crowned chess king two weeks ago after toppling Russia's Vladimir Kramnik in Mexico City,...
LOS ANGELES--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 20, 1998--The nice thing about chess is that players do battle in their heads.Extensive research indicates that chess teaches logic, problem solving, memory, strategic thinking, sportsmanship, concentration and self-esteem. That's why many schools are teaching kids to play.The electronic versions of chess can greatly simplify learning and...
Dear Mrs Worthington, So you want to put your son on the boards? The chessboards, that is. As Noel Coward, "The Master" himself, might have put it, the profession is overcrowded. Although your baby may be keen on a chess career, here are some facts and one...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- PMC-Sierra (NASDAQ:PMCS) today announced the production release of the CHESSTM III and CHESSTM Wideband chip sets for next-generation Multi Service Provisioning Platforms MSPPs and digital cross connects. PMC-Sierra's CHESS III and CHESS Wideband products have achieved over one hundred design wins with leading manufacturers around the...
SACRAMENTO, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 6, 1998--Packard Bell NEC, a leading provider of easy-to-use, full-featured computers for the home and family, teams up with LEGO Media International as a sponsor of the LEGO Chess Challenge, a computer chess tournament to be held this Saturday, Nov. 7, at the U.S. Chess Center in...
Chess champion Garry Kasparov will play another series of games with IBM's Deep Blue chess program in 1997. Many observers are concerned with humans being outsmarted by computers, but chess ability is merely computational and not a measure of intelligenceChess champion Garry Kasparov will play another series of games with...
NEW YORK, AFP ? Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov won game number three on Sunday against a virtual reality supercomputer "X3D Fritz," tying the score in their four-game challenge at 1.5-to-1.5. A fourth and final game in the man-versus-machine series will take place at the New York Athletic Club on...
ONE OF Yorkshire's best-known chess congresses is to open its doors in Huddersfield. The three-day Chess Congress will be at the Ukrainian Club, Edgerton from March 28 to 30. Further details can be obtained at www.huddersfieldchess club.co.uk or by emailing Nigel Hepworth at webmaster@huddersfield chessclub.co.uk or phone 07903 548 675.
BERLIN AFP ? A group of German chess players has called on Berlin to offer political asylum to chess master Bobby Fischer, who is being held in Japan, one of the campaign's organisers said. In a letter to Interior Minister Otto Schily entitled "Free Bobby Fischer", the organisers of...
MADRID AFP — A 17-year-old Nowegian chess prodigy, Magnus Carlsen, is the star of the Grand Slam Chess Final Masters currently under way in Spain which features five other top players including world number one Viswanathan Anand of India. Carlsen, who is currently number six in the official world...
The new year always ushers in numerous different chess events across the globe. One of the more unusual is the Hilton Hotel Chess Meeting in Basle, which this year reached its sixth edition. Running from 1 to 4 January, this comprised no fewer than eight different events...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Per-Christian Andersen has been appointed as President of Chess Communications AS. Chess is a fully-owned subsidiary of TeliaSonera (HEX:TLSV1)(STO:TLSN) and the third largest provider of mobile services in Norway.
Huddersfield Chess Club held its second chess congress at the weekend. The three-day congress began on Friday night at Greenhead Masonic Lodge. About 100 competitors entered the event. Each battled it out against five different opponents. Players were divided into four different sections, according to their...
