37 days ago by Christophe BC

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37 days ago by kilongfellow

Genius is an overused word. Worse, it’s misused and misunderstood. Take Steve Jobs, the most recent and almost most egregious example. He gets called a genius for basically making a huge pot of money. People also think he invented all those gadgets he was the front man for…though I’ll grant he was b ...

37 days ago by IANS

Ruy Lopez, Sicilian Defence, Caro-Kann Defence, English Opening — all these might become popular terms with school students across Tamil Nadu in a couple of years’ time. The exotic sounding terms are chess strategies – opening and defence variants – that the school students across Tamil Nadu would b ...

37 days ago by IANS

Ten-year-old A Ra Harikrishnan, a student of local Sethu Baskara School, delivered the first upset in the SDAT – RMK 4th Chennai Open International Grandmaster chess tournament, defeating Woman Grandmaster and former National champion Nisha Mohota here Wednesday. Obtaining an advantage in a hard-fou ...

37 days ago by Seraph

Погружусь я, пожалуй, в чтение и шахматы, а также победю лень и займусь самонаномодернизацией, как учит нас нынешний президент и Анатолий Чубайс; судя по френд-ленте, почти все ещё празднуют, а Махатма Ганди до сих пор в оффлайне.

37 days ago by Vincent Chong

LOL Factory (Part 13): NICE. need to lock until like that....? optical illusion, it is moving! Problem? She thought this zombies wants to date her for her brain, that's why she accepts it. Actually the zombies wants to eat her brain! Car. Cool! Those people with cars as their profile picture on Face ...

37 days ago by FELIX WU

Happy New Year! Thank you for those of you who follow keep your ongoing support for me and my blog. I believe you’ve had a wonderful Christmas and a great start in the New Year. It’s a tradition for many of us to celebrate our New Year by going into the city for New Year’s countdown as well as watch ...

37 days ago by Gayathri

Chess, they say, is the game of the intellectual or the rational-thinker. You need to make your moves wise and smart if you want to win the game. It’s all about thinking! But we must acknowledge the fact that this mind game helps your system revive and refresh. It helps you apply your thought proces ...

38 days ago by DEVL

Niki and I just went on another cemetery stroll recently, this time through Niagara Falls' historic Drummond Hill Cemetery on Lundy's Lane, and while we were there I happened to see a gravestone that is very nearly the twin of the one I posted a picture of last week. In fact, besides the name, the p ...

38 days ago by IANS

The Central Council of the All India Chess Federation Tuesday unanimously decided to recommend Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand for the Bharat Ratna award. Two other icons, cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and hockey Olympian late Major Dhyan Chand are also being lobbied for the country’s highest civilian aw ...