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Fischer Impact

Submitted by RobertABrown on Sun Nov 29, 2009 10:38am.

29 November 2009 Some thought food.  "Is the American the best chess player ever?" asks Dr. Karsten Müller in the introduction to Bobby Fischer the Career and Complete Games of the American World Champion. " I personally believe that he i... Read more »

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Conspiracy Theory?

Submitted by RobertABrown on Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:46pm.

I've been playing on the ChessWorld site for about three years now. The place boasts half a million players, testimony to its appeal to players fond of on-line correspondence chess.   Chessworld has a messaging feature, like this site doe... Read more »

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Renaming the Chessmen...er, Chess Pieces.

Submitted by RobertABrown on Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:55pm.

It's time to rename the chess pieces. Let's stop calling the horse's head a knight, dump the medieval associations, and adopt the sensible German appellation, Springer, which is an adequte descriptor of how the horse moves in both lang... Read more »

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