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“The United States is evil. There’s this axis of evil. What about the allies of evil — the United States, England, Japan, Australia? These are the evildoers.” — Bobby Fischer
Ex chess World champion, Bobby Fischer, is dead! I am not kidding, this is real news and not some hoax. It was a shock, reading that news More >
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I have this bad habit of starting coding on some application, bringing it to an alpha-ready stage, dropping it and moving on to the next one. Fortunately I don’t do this in my day job, else I’d have got the boot long time back.
Couple of months back, I was working on a chess application. I More >
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Recently CNN-IBN ran an interview with Chess world champion Vishwanathan Anand (Vishy). I didn’t catch this on TV, but ,thanks to IBN-Live, found them in their site.
The show is split in to 5 parts. Click on the following links to open them in a new window. The site needs no registration to view the videos, More >
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I have setup a forums site for Chess. The main idea is to give a platform for discussing Chess in Tamil/English (focus being the former!). Hopefully, tutors/reviews and other articles will accrue over time. Check that out and let me know.
about 2 years ago - 13 comments
I love the work being done by the good folks in Chessbase; IMO they have the coolest jobs, they get payed to develop software for CHESS Ohhhh, I wish I had some kinda day job like that! I know video game development is as interesting, but anyway gaming has never been one of More >
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If you are a chess fan, you probably already know what the tournament categories mean. MTel masters, which is going to start this month, for example, is a category 20 tournament (based on January rating list). The tournament categories are determined by the average tournament rating. Lets say, the average ELO rating of a tournament More >
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I was on a long vacation last week, enjoying not only playing with my brother’s daughter, but also preparing to watch Russian Super finals How can anyone miss this one (even if that means missing a 2 yrs cutie’s smile)!?
Russian heavy weights, Kasparov, Kramnik & Karpov usually do not play in their national More >
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Whew, what a month October has been! With the heavy weights Kramnik & Leko fighting it out for the Dannemann World Championship title, I have to admit, I didn’t pay that much attention to the first 3 – 5 rounds of this year’s olympiad. Of course, there were so many elite players playing including my More >
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Chessbase has a funny article on Bush vs Kerry here. Bush – Kerry game score is a neat idea. I also loved the way Kerry’s play resembled mine! Great minds think alike?
Also, Krush and Shahade look cute in their wigs That article has MiG written all over it, even though it More >
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After getting beaten soundly (you can still see the dark ugly bruises in my face) in Online Chess for 3 times in a row, yesterday, I did the Chess equivalent of drowning myself in Liquor: Went out and bought more Chess books! You see, everytime I have an embarassing, totally annihilating defeat, I get soooo More >
