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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During yesterday's quarterfinals of the WGAM Amateur, the competitors had to battle the conditions almost as much as their opponents.
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Some computers can beat grandmasters at chess. Others can compose music.
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This is turning out to be more like a game of snakes and ladders than anything else. Or perhaps an analogy with chess would be better.
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Vladimir Kramnik of Russia refused to play after being locked out of his private bathroom.
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Anyone desperate for a break from crunching numbers, minding the kids or studying for exams knows how easy it can be to find distraction in the simple brain teasing of computer games like Sudoku, solitaire or mahjong.
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On the surface it is a simple stock purchase, but on another level, the maneuvering is part of an angry chess game between two mega-entrepreneurs who are used to running the board.
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PANYU, China  - The old men hunched over a board game looked like any other pensioners playing chess, until they lifted their heads to welcome medical staff approaching their table.
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Forget luxury cars, an apartment in New York or a big yacht. What the winner of a huge Canadian lottery jackpot really hankers for is a chess set.
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As leader of the political opposition, Garry Kasparov brings the energy and aggression that characterized his chess game to his political career.
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Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine, a film about the historic 1997 chess match between Garry Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue, focuses on whether humans interceded on the computer's behalf but fails to convince. By Jason Silverman.
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The perfect game of checkers ends as  a draw, Canadian computer scientists reported on Thursday.
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Chess's world governing body will introduce dope testing at the Asian Games this week, although the sport's top official in Doha said he had no idea how drugs could enhance chess performance.
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Phase one of promoter Don King&#39;s plan to unify the heavyweight championship kicks off at Madison Square Garden tonight with two of the four widely recognized title belts up for grabs and a host of other boxers jockeying for position.
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NEW YORK -- With any luck, Don King's lightweight heavyweight elimination tournament tonight at Madison Square Garden will achieve its goal. It will eliminate a few heavyweights from further consideration as title contenders.
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Several proposals are under consideration that should produce a lively floor fight.
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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