Chess unification bout takes nasty turn
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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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ROSEMONT, Ill. -- When last they saw each other, WBC light heavyweight champion Tomasz Adamek and challenger Paul Briggs were both bleary-eyed and bloody. That night Adamek prevailed, but barely, each man extracting from the other a terrible price for agreeing to an angry business meeting in which leather and blood flew.
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Marat Safin was angry with himself, puzzled by the choice of court surface and frustrated at his inability to put Russia in command on opening day of the Day Cup final.
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Referees had to separate German and Argentine players who scuffled for several minutes after the hosts&#039; quarterfinal victory.
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World chess champion Vladimir Kramnik lost the sixth and decisive game against computer program Deep Fritz on Tuesday, ceding a hard-fought Man vs. Machine match 4-2.
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Not everyone's happy about the event's new highbrow format.  Indie publisher Gamecock, for example, has every intention of raising a ruckus.
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It was a day of upsets at the Wismilak International yesterday as Ai Sugiyama, Chanda Rubin, and Jelena Jankovic all fell in the first round to unheralded opponents.
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The assessment of Kovalchukâs game â and attitude â has been turned upside down since he entered the N.H.L.
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Horseplayers have been caught in the crossfire of a battle over the economics of wagering on the Internet, a problemÃÂ manifestedÃÂ during the Kentucky Derby.
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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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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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The offense had been thinking too much, reacting to every defensive nuance, turning football into chess. Too much brain. Not enough brawn.
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The European Commission faces a battle with sport's governing bodies over its ability to regulate sport.
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They were expressing their frustration at what turned into the latest of several Games gymnastics judging controversies. In a surreal scene unlike anything gymnastics veterans had ever encountered, jeers and
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There was a time when knocking out Mike Tyson was boxing&#39;s equivalent to beating Ken Jennings at Final Jeopardy. It was the most Heruculean of labors and when it finally happened, it was an international event
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After the ritual humiliation of the new boys, the ICC Champions Trophy began in earnest yesterday with a quarter-final showdown between two of cricket&#39;s most decorated starsâ¦but it too turned into a no-contest.
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Bush and Kerry have had to adjust their games in light of the alerts, and the match has grown nastier