The Ritual of Chess, a Decoder of Life
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An artist known for contrasting nature and culture continues to explore visual and behavioral patterns with new videos.
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Henry Jenkins  and his observations on social responsibility in Chinese video game culture.
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Whether you enjoy card playing and dice rolling or not, this book will make interesting reading.
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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.
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Sam Kim presents a persuasive choreographic metaphor for the loss of self.
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Sex, happiness, time, culture, exchange and mind. Money in all its guises.
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Models are used to being the playthings of designers, make-up artists and photographers who transform them at will. On Friday, British designer Alexander McQueen turned them into pawns in a human chess game.
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You don't have to be a gamesman to love the show at the Asia Society. The engrossing display of dice, chess sets and polo mallets is a playground for any eye.
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Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess master who became a Cold War icon when he dethroned the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky as world champion in 1972, has died. He was 64
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See in pictures how scientists deciphered the inner workings of mankind's earliest analog computer, a device devised by ancient Mediterranean clockmakers to plot the movements of heavenly bodies. In Gear Factor. By Rob Beschizza.
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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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Critics say it's a compulsive habit. Players call it a test of skill. Either way, the dice are flying.
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On Friday, January 18, 2008, chess master Bobby Fischer died at age 64, the same number, CNN.com reader Susan Polgar points out, as the number of squares on a chessboard.
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Perhaps Chinook, the checker-playing computer program, should be renamed "King Me." Canadian researchers report they have "solved" checkers, developing a program that cannot lose in a game popular with young and old alike for more than a thousand years.
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New data gives a peek into how the players are posed to do.
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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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Early in my writing career, I had an assignment to follow around a mohel -- the guy who does ritual circumcisions in the Jewish tradition. My subject learned the trade by watching his dad, a renowned figure in the field. One day, father told son he was ready to handle the tools himself. Why now? ...