Grandmasters push toilet row aside to play chess
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It went down to the wire but in the end the Russian turned up to play.
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As children in 1930s Britain played snakes and ladders or Peter Rabbit's Race Game, their counterparts in Nazi Germany were enjoying themselves with a far less innocent board game.
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The future of the world chess championship was in question Friday when a player did not show up for the fifth game and threatened to withdraw from the match after he was accused of cheating and locked out of his private bathroom.
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Beijing is flush with delegates from across the globe for the World Toilet Summit, a three-day event that got underway Wednesday. Although many may pooh-pooh the idea of a toilet summit, the founder of the
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Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi is deeply involved in the most critical chess game of his career. His country faces allegations it is secretly building a nuclear weapons arsenal under
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There may be stiff competition from video games, television and computers these days, but chess enthusiasts say the ancient game of kings is enjoying a revival among American children.
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NEW YORK: First the board room, now the board game. At his Fifth Avenue Tower, Donald Trump unveiled his newest business venture: a new board game with high stakes dealmaking and dollar sums in the billions.
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Fearful they will no longer be allowed to compete in the event that now serves as a national championship for menâs rowing, coaches are putting together a competition of their own. The newly formed American Col
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BEIJING - Laugh all you want, say public hygiene experts at the World Toilet Summit, but the importance of having loos you can use is no joke.
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The Knights Tour, a feat of mental agility involving a chess board, isn't the only overlap between the magic shows of Eric Walton and Ricky Jay.
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Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer  has appealed after a Tokyo court rejected his bid to halt  deportation procedures from Japan, a fate he is also trying to  escape by the more romantic move of wedding a Japan chess  great.
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Former chess champion Bobby Fischer has been sitting in detention in Japan for half a year, fighting deportation orders and fleeing criminal charges in the United States.
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Chess legend Garry Kasparov talks to the BBC News website about Putin, politics and the game of kings.
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Two shows at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass., offer a playground for games with genres.
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The creators of Chinook, a computer program that plays checkers, now argue that it is unbeatable by human or computer competition.
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Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer wins a court order delaying his deportation from Japan.
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Blog: A group of computer scientists say they've managed to crack the "code" of the checkers board game so that a computer program can win or draw against any opponent.