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BOOKS: Power politics over a chess board - Washington Times

Washington Times

BOOKS: Power politics over a chess board Washington Times, DC - Jan 3, 2009 By Daniel Johnson Thought to have originated in India in the sixth century AD, the beautiful game of chess finally has returned home. ...

Pestaño: Sinulog and the best players of 2008 - Sun.Star

Pestaño: Sinulog and the best players of 2008 Sun.Star, Philippines - Jan 4, 2009 Viswanathan Anand (39, India, 2791) 2.) Vassily Ivanchuk (39, Ukraine, 2779) 4.) Magnus Carlsen (18, Norway, 2776) 5.Alexander Morozevich (31, Russia, ...

FIDE rankings: Indians make big gains - Hindu

FIDE rankings: Indians make big gains Hindu, India - Jan 1, 2009 KOZHIKODE: India capped its finest ever year in chess with big gains in the latest quarterly rating list (January 2009) released by the world chess ...

Cuban Leinier Dominguez among the World Chess Elite - Cuba Headlines

Cuba Headlines

Cuban Leinier Dominguez among the World Chess Elite Cuba Headlines, Cuba - Dec 30, 2008 ... champion GM Viswanathan Anad (2791) of India. The Top Ten also includes Ukrainian GM Vassily Ivanchuk (2779), Russian GM Alexander Morozevich (2771), ...

Seven Pounds, Slumdog Millionaire, Synecdoche, New York, Tale of ... - Creative Loafing Tampa

Seven Pounds, Slumdog Millionaire, Synecdoche, New York, Tale of ... Creative Loafing Tampa, FL - Dec 18, 2008 Founded by Leonard Chess (Adrien Brody) and his brother Phil (oddly omitted here), Chess transformed southern “raceâ€� music into urban blues and catapulted ...

Movies capsules AZ, Dec. 26 - phillyBurbs.com

Movies capsules AZ, Dec. 26 phillyBurbs.com, PA - Dec 26, 2008 (PG-13) CADILLAC RECORDS: (B) This rousing, fact-based musical drama chronicles the history of Chicago's Chess Records in the 1960s. ...

Capsule reviews of films playing the week of Dec. 31 - Creative Loafing

Capsule reviews of films playing the week of Dec. 31 Creative Loafing, NC - Dec 30, 2008 Only marginally involving, Valkyrie is defeated by a thin script that fails to flesh out a single character, instead employing them all as pawns in a chess ...

Jewish Russian Telegraph: Cold War And Chess: White King And Red Queen
Washington Times: HOW THE COLD WAR WAS FOUGHT ON THE CHESSBOARD By Daniel Johnson Houghton Mifflin, $26, 416 pages REVIEWED BY DOUG BANDOW Thought to have originated in India in the sixth century AD, the beautiful game of chess finally.

India at Chess Olympiad Dresden 2008
Indian Men Chess Team was paired against 48th seeded Canada in Round 1. India rested GM Sasikiran. GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly defeated GM Charbonneau Pascal on second board and rest of the games were drawn. India won 2 1/2 - 1 1/2. ...

Chess, Goddess and Everything: Turkish Housewife Opens Her Own Museum
A 3500-year-old wine cube depicts Zeus, Apollo and Alexander the Great returning from war. An ancient Greek bowl portrays running horses, carriages, and a queen. *********************. Did you catch that? Alexander the Great appearing ...

Cuban Leinier Domínguez among the World’s Chess Elite
The FIDE world ranking is led by former world champion GM Vesselin Topalov of Bulgaria with an ELO rating of 2796 points and he is followed by reigning world champion GM Viswanathan Anad (2791) of India. ...

January 2009 FIDE Rating List Published - Chess.com
Though India has to catch up with those countries which gave more chess champions over 2600 Elo, the one fact that Vissy Anand of India is the World Champion gives us Indians a lot in the world of Chess. The Tapalov-Kamsky-Anand is ...

ChessBase.com - Chess News - Europe Echecs – Anand goes Bollywood
Ashok Alexander lives in New Delhi, India. He’s a chess amateur with an Elo rating of 2236, and has known Vishy Anand since he was eleven years old. Ashok is the Director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s India AIDS Initiative ...

2008 Chess.com Holiday Puzzler Answers And Winners! - Chess.com
Irishman Alexander McDonnell and Frenchman Louis Charles de la Bourdonnais played a famous series of matches in 1834 which, taken together, are often regarded as an unofficial world championship match. La Bourdonnais won the match +45 ...

FIDE rankings: Indians make big gains (The Hindu)
KOZHIKODE: India capped its finest ever year in chess with big gains in the latest quarterly rating list (January 2009) released by the world chess governing body FIDE on Wednesday. World champion Viswanathan Anand has moved three ...

Ode to 2008 (R News)
For ten years now, Perinton's Brendan O'Riordan has summed up the year's events in poetry for R News. He's been doing it for a total of 21 years. Here's Brendan's look back at 2008.

2008 year in review: Big news, small news and in between (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)
JANUARYPDBossuJan. 1: Former Benedictine High School coach Augie Bossu, who led football and baseball teams at the school from 1953-2006, dies at 91. The FBI resumes its search for the mysterious "D.B. Cooper" who hijacked an airliner in 1971,...