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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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