Ancient Greeks used it as a question mark; and after classical scholar and master printer Aldus Manutius revived it in a 1494 font set, semicolons slowly spread across Europe. Though London first saw semicolons appear in a 1568 chess guide, Shakespeare grew up in an era that still scarcely recognized them; some of his Folio typesetters in 1623, though, were clearly converts.
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Last week, top-flight competition returned to New York when the Marshall Chess Club on West 10th Street held a tournament that attracted a strong field of 40 players.

Next come the rooks. In my thinking, these are the people in Engineering and HR. They can move only in straight lines, but they can be useful in battle if you force them to get off their backsides (backlines) and make a difference.
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A player can define an era. The 1960s and early ’70s belonged to Bobby Fischer. In the ’80s and ’90s, Garry Kasparov held sway. This may go down as the Magnus Carlsen era.

For a moment I also thought that Australian Chess Grandmaster Ian Rogers decided to take on Internet business after his premature retirement from competitive chess. But after seeing the photo, I realized that TechCrunch tricked us, chess addicts.

Here’s what this is all about: “Ian Rogers, the former GM of Yahoo Music, has finally taken music startup TopSpin Media out of stealth mode. The new

There was this occasional syndication (or whatever you call it, perhaps someone cares to explain) of New York Times chess column on the IHT website, but now NYT journalist Dylan Loeb McClain wrote an exclusive article for IHT (according to search results), while his Gambit Blog is hibernating since 6th June. The NYT Sunday printed column seems to be going according to schedule.

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We’re so completely lost in our universe of 64 black and white squares that we like to think every move we make changes the way the world exists. So it’s easy for Russians to imagine that chess began when they started to play it. In 1991, at my first international tournament, in Reggio Emilia in northern Italy, a Russian grandmaster condescendingly told me I could at best be a coffee-house player

Novoborský šachový klub hosted a live chat session with GM Sergei Movsesian. I missed it, unfortunately, but log is still available in Czech and English (scroll down) on the NSS page.

We’ve read a lot about the controversy over the tiebreaks at the 2008 U.S. Women’s Championship. There are letters from Irina Krush and an interview with Anna Zatonskih.
But now the situation is getting even more complicated as Elizabeth Vicary jumps in to declare her “own glorious victory!!”

I’m not going to bore you with my interpretation of the USCF Championship Guidelines.
Instead I appeal

Koneru Humpy, the 2nd rated woman on the FIDE list, skips the Chess Olympiad in Dresden, but she will play Cap d’Agde and European Club Cup.

“Dates of these tournaments have now been postponed to late October and the Olympiad is in November,” Humpy told PTI.

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