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Kasparov loses "traitor" case against pro-Kremlin youth group
MOSCOW AFP — Former chess champion turned opposition leader Garry Kasparov on Thursday lost a court case in Moscow claiming moral damages against a pro-Kremlin youth group that had called him a thief and a traitor. Kasparov had sued for 1.28 million dollars (805,000 euros) in damages from Nashi...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, chess, MARKETING, Moscow, TVs, youth
Research articles 2008-04-17
Educator wins prestigious civics award
Call it a matched set.Now that Marciene S. Mattleman has been named winner of the 2007 Philadelphia Award, there will soon be a pair of the prestigious awards in the Mattleman household.Her husband, Herman Mattleman, former president of the Philadephia Board of Education, won the 1990 award.Marciene Mattleman is a...
Tags: CAREER, chess, FINANCE, husband, SALES, Strategy, Temple University
Research articles 2008-03-20
Local briefs: Chess congress
ONE OF Yorkshire's best-known chess congresses is to open its doors in Huddersfield. The three-day Chess Congress will be at the Ukrainian Club, Edgerton from March 28 to 30. Further details can be obtained at www.huddersfieldchess club.co.uk or by emailing Nigel Hepworth at webmaster@huddersfield chessclub.co.uk or phone 07903 548 675.
Tags: chess, phone, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2008-03-13
Chess genius Bobby Fischer, from American hero to paranoid fugitive
REYKJAVIK AFP — Bobby Fischer, who died on Thursday aged 64, was a high school dropout who may have been the greatest chess player of all time, but ended his life in eccentric seclusion. The US-born player had lived for the last two years in Iceland, after serving eight...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, chess, genius, Japan, MARKETING, U.S.
Research articles 2008-01-18
Chess genius Bobby Fischer, from American hero to paranoid fugitive
REYKJAVIK AFP — Bobby Fischer, who died on Thursday aged 64, was a high school dropout who may have been the greatest chess player of all time, but ended his life in eccentric seclusion. The US-born player had lived for the last two years in Iceland, after serving eight...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, chess, genius, Japan, MARKETING, U.S.
Research articles 2008-01-18
Chess: When chess pulled the crowds; By SPENCER TILBROOK
ANYONE who doubts chess's ability to both captivate and animate an audience should have been present at this month's York Congress. A particularly engrossing game in the Open section reached its climax in the penultimate round and, as word passed round the leisure centre staging the Congress, more and...
Tags: chess, Games, Strategy, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2008-01-16
World chess king hopes sport makes Olympic debut
NEW DELHI AFP — Reigning world chess champion Vishwanathan Anand of India said Tuesday that he hoped his sport would one day be included in the Olympic Games as a medal discipline. The bespectacled Anand, crowned chess king two weeks ago after toppling Russia's Vladimir Kramnik in Mexico City,...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, chess, Games, medal, Russia
Research articles 2007-10-16
Indian PM hails new world chess champion
NEW DELHI AFP — India's prime minister on Monday hailed Vishwanathan Anand as the "pride of the nation" after the bespectacled grandmaster was crowned world chess champion. Anand, nicknamed the "Tiger from Madras," toppled Russia's Vladimir Kramnik as champion, winning the gruelling tournament on points after tying a match...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, chess, Games, India, Russia, tournament
Research articles 2007-10-01
India's 'Tiger from Madras' crowned world chess champion
MEXICO CITY AFP — The chess world hailed a new champion Sunday with the crowning of India's Vishwanathan Anand, victor of a grueling tournament that brought together eight of the game's best players. "I enjoy this new feeling of being world champion," Anand, who was ranked world number one...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, chess, Games, India, tournament
Research articles 2007-09-29
CHESS: By the Bishop
THE new season is nearly upon us and already the Congress diary is filling up. Graham Marshall has just sent out details of the opening event for the 2007-2008 North-East Rapidplay Circuit. The venue is the popular Hillcarter Hotel, opposite the railway station in Hartlepool, and the five round...
Tags: chess, diary, Games, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2007-08-30
World's first human-machine poker championship to begin
VANCOUVER, Canada AFP — Two top poker players will pit their wiles and math ability against a computer Monday, in a two-day match scientists say is the world's first man-machine poker championship. The program, called Polaris, will play four games of "Texas Hold Em." Its opponents are Phil Laak...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, chess, computer, game, poker, PRODUCTIVITY, scientist
Research articles 2007-07-23
Chess-in-the-Schools presents the 5th Annual Mayor's Cup
NEW YORK -- On June 2, New York City Sports Commissioner Kenneth J. Podziba will welcome the 5th Annual Mayor's Cup Youth Chess Championships to Frederick Douglas Academy in Manhattan. The tournament is open to all students in grades kindergarten-12 currently enrolled in public, private and parochial schools located in...
Tags: chess, Games, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Manhattan, tournament
Research articles 2007-05-31
Illinois' Kendall Ciesemier of Wheaton Named One of America's Top Ten Youth Volunteers
State's Rishi Sethi of Barrington Hills Also Honored During Four-Day Celebration, With Tribute from Super Bowl MVP Peyton Manning WASHINGTON -- Kendall Ciesemier, 14, of Wheaton was named one of America's top ten youth volunteers for 2007 in a ceremony today at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, receiving a...
Tags: chess, Leadership, Prudential Insurance Company of America
Research articles 2007-05-07
Paterno trying familiar faces in unfamiliar places
STATE COLLEGE - Spring football is a time for experimentation, and Penn State's most notable early test-tube subjects are defensive back Tony Davis and All-America linebacker Dan Connor.Davis, a starter at cornerback as a sophomore last season, has been moved to safety, creating an opening at corner for highly touted...
Tags: chess, football, Penn State, team
Research articles 2007-03-28
US toy fair is no child's play
NEW YORK AFP — One of the strictest rules at this week's American International Toy Fair may sound odd but actually makes perfect sense: no children. Billed as the largest show of its kind in the Western Hemisphere, the New York fair attracts more than 1,200 manufacturers and distributors...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, chess, Games, manufacturer, Manufacturing, Mattel Inc.
Research articles 2007-02-14
Illinois' Top Two Youth Volunteers Selected in 12th Annual National Awards Program
Barrington Hills and Wheaton students earn $1,000 awards, engraved medallions and trip to nation's capital Honors also bestowed on other top youth volunteers in Illinois SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Rishi Sethi, 18, of Barrington Hills and Kendall Ciesemier, 14, of Wheaton today were named Illinois' top two youth volunteers...
Tags: chess, FINANCE, Insurance, Leadership, Prudential Insurance Company of America
Research articles 2007-02-13
Wallace giving Bulls exactly what they need.(Sports)
Byline: Mike Imrem An hour and a half before tipoff Saturday night, Ben Wallace strolled toward his locker stall in the Bulls locker room. Uh, oh. A cameraman was sitting in Wallace's chair, taping an interview with Bulls guard...
Tags: chair, chess, Detroit, Games, NBA, team
Research articles 2007-01-07
Kasparov to return, briefly, to the chessboard
MOSCOW AFP — Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov has said he would be making a brief return to competition in a tournament in Zurich next month, where his old foe Anatoly Karpov will also be playing. "At the end of August Garry Kasparov will take part in a...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, chess, INTERNET, tournament, Zurich
Research articles 2006-07-26
Masters of Chinese chess to battle it out against robots
BEIJING AFP — Masters of Chinese chess are to face the ultimate challenge later this year when they battle it out against a team of robots, the Chinese Society of Artificial Intelligence revealed. Five masters of Xiangqi, which is called Chinese chess in the West, would take on a...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, chess, Robots, team
Research articles 2006-03-02
Alexander steps into national spotlight
DETROIT -- There is somebody who can beat NFL MVP Shaun Alexander at his own game. Erik Anderson, the founder of the American Foundation for . . . Chess? Alexander said the Seattle-area entrepreneur is the last person to beat him at one of his many...
Tags: Alexander, chess, Games, NFL, Seattle, team
Research articles 2006-01-31
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