From the Desk of Bee Drunken (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
November 8 is my brother’s birthday, and this year, it falls on Remembrance Sunday . Because my brother is currently deployed to Afghanistan, it is particularly poignant that those dates should coincide. All week long, it seems like Afghanistan has been in the news for tragic reasons – and there have been particularly personal betrayals. I don’t know how distant the war seems to others,...
The Knights of Castle Kimbark (Free subscription) | yesterday
I thought the food, service, and décor were all quite good at the newly renovated Giordano’s pizzeria in Hyde Park, which reopened this week after several months of remodeling. I’ll leave it at that and let people who know about restaurants fill in the details. What struck me about the place was that the tabletops are perfect for chess. Just bring pieces, and the board’s right...
Jim West On Chess (Free subscription) | yesterday
These are pictures that I took earlier today at the Marshall Chess Club Amateur Team Championship. Blogger Atomic Patzer made his return to tournament chess. His teammate Kevin Chen played first board on The Friday Knights . Here is my second board Mikhail Sher.
Alexandra Kosteniuk's CHESSBLOG.COM (Free subscription) | yesterday
Photo by Fred Lucas From October 27 to November 8, 2009 the 19th world senior chess championship took place in Italy. The women's section was won by the legendary chess champion Nona Gaprindashvili who scored 7,5 out of 9 and took clear first place ahead of Elena Fatalibekova (7 points) and Tatiana Fominykh (6,5). Nona Gaprindashvili was the 5th women's world chess champion and was the first woman...
The Daily Dirt Chess News Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Kramnik, Anand, and Aronian all score wins in the third round after all games were again drawn in the second. Round 4: Kramnik-Svidler, Ponomariov-Anand, Leko-Ivanchuk, Carlsen-Aronian, Morozevich-Gelfand.
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
For immediate release November 7th 2009 London Chess Classic The London Chess Classic is delighted to announce that Viktor Korchnoi, one of the all time greats of world chess has agreed to be the tournament’s Guest of Honour. Korchnoi still plays high level chess at the age of 78 and recently played on board one for Switzerland at the European Team Championship. Korchnoi fought two world title...
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | yesterday
Victoria: Jenga? Monopoly? Trivial Pursuit'??? It's Games Night at Ocean Island, so shimmy on down to the café, eat, drink and play until you can't play no more.
Chess news by ChessVibes (Free subscription) | yesterday
The silence was broken in round 3 of the Tal Memorial. Anand was the first to win today when Svidler blundered in an already difficult position. Leko never got true compensation against Aronian in an Anti-Moscow and resigned on move 43. In the best game of the day Kramnik defeated Morozevich with Black in a [...]
Une Vie Chic (Free subscription) | yesterday
SInce moving back to the US, and G starting a new job, we've been on a normal schedule of M-F with weekends off. Couple that with the fact that he gets off an hour and a hafl early three days a week (including Friday) to work out, and our weekend is nice and long. Today G is cutting down the tree in our backyard so that the privacy fence can be installed on Monday. I thought while he was doing manual...
Chess news by ChessVibes (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jose Manuel Lopez and Daniel Alsina are leading the Torneig Cuitat de Barcelona after five rounds. In the category 14 round-robin the two scored 3.5 points and are half a point ahead of two more famous names: Ulf Andersson and Alexey Dreev. The tournament is called Magistral Ciutat de Barcelona – Casino de Barcelona. It’s a [...]
prmac | yesterday
OutOfTheBit today announced Checkers! 1.2.4 , their versatile and highly customizable game app for iPhone and iPod Touch. OutOfTheBit, turns an age old favorite into a versatile, modern gaming experience. Checkers! four different playing rules, drag and drop playing, choice of three languages and varying graphic features makes Checkers! a unique application for gamers everywhere.
Savage Popcorn (Free subscription) | yesterday
It looks like the latest blockbuster fad is going to toys to film. Filmstalker noted , a couple of days ago, that Sony have acquired the film rights to Risk - yes, that's Risk the board game. Also on the way, as noted by CHUD , is a Micronauts movie and JJ Abrams is in talks to produce it. The most interesting part of this is the information that Hasbro - the owners of Micronauts - include "saw...
Robert Pearson's Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
My previous "Memorable Games" posted here were memorable for me in that they were some of my best games. This game is memorable because I forget a little thing called "development" and my whole king side stays at home for an entire game , just like in some of those 1850's clashes "Anderssen-NN" or "Morphy-Allies." Also, one of the few times in my career that...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Armenia and Azerbaijan vie for supremacy at Russia's expense Leonard Barden The Guardian, Saturday 7 November 2009 More than 150 nations are affiliated to the global chess body Fide, yet team supremacy on the board is currently being fought out by two small Caucasian republics. In the process the pair have humilated their big neighbour Russia, for long the undisputed No1. When Armenia won the 2006...
Checkpoint 10 (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
This is my first memory of auto racing... or, maybe not precisely the event depicted in the video, but something close to it. From an early age, I always associated Marlboro with racing, even before cigarettes. And I have this vague memory of seeing a Marlboro-liveried, open-wheel formula car, racing around a parking lot on a television newscast. Somehow, I'm sure it wasn't Formula 1, and it must have...
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prmac | yesterday
OutOfTheBit today announced Checkers! 1.2.4 , their versatile and highly customizable game app for iPhone and iPod Touch. OutOfTheBit, turns an age old favorite into a versatile, modern gaming experience. Checkers! four different playing rules, drag and drop playing, choice of three languages and varying graphic features makes Checkers! a unique application for gamers everywhere.
dorothysweet | 11/04/2009
Monopoly City adds new twists to the classic board game. This board game will teach your kids about what it takes to be the best property developer and the work that goes into building their dream city. With the goal of owning the prestigious Monopoly tower, your kids will be learning important lessons about money while wheeling and dealing their way to the top. ••▷••▷••▷ Click to See Monopoly City...
prmac | 10/21/2009
MaxNick today introduces iChapaev 1.0, their new board game for iPhone and iPod Touch. Developed specifically to leverage the iPhones slick interface, iChapaev offers a new twist on the popular game of checkers. The aim of the game is to knock off all the opponents checkers in under seven rounds. Players point each piece by dragging it until the right amount of tension is set to increase or decrease...
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