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| Posted by ketchuplover ability-tw.com 1/08/2005 11:53:37 Play online chess |  Subject: Law & Order Criminal IntentMessage: This Sunday night the episode of Law & Order:Criminal Intent involves chess :) |
| Posted by wellhairedbeast ability-tw.com 1/08/2005 12:26:49 Play online chess | Message: There was a two part crime drama in the uk a week ago. There was a copy cat killer of famous murders in the past... One of the victims had chess pieces put in their mouth after they were dead! I wonder how many other crime etc related dramas have involved chess lately? |
| Posted by wulebgr ability-tw.com 1/09/2005 16:38:47 Play online chess | not a crime drama Message: but on West Wing, President Bartlett is an avid chess player. One of CJ's first real tests as Chief of Staff came when Leo told her she had to play chess with the President. |
| Posted by jjw109 ability-tw.com 1/09/2005 20:38:27 Play online chess | Law & Order: Criminal Intent Message: If anybody didn't see the Law and Order episode it involved a ex-world champion grandmaster and former child prodigy that had played an illegal match in Cuba against US sanctions. Oh, I might also add he was a paranoid freak.... Sound familiar?! |
| Posted by abegtrup ability-tw.com 1/11/2005 21:46:07 Play online chess | Well no crime drama, but... Message: Joan of Arcadia had Joan playing god in a game of chess this past Friday. It was all about how if you don't play the game, you can never win. I'm not claiming to understand, but my sister is one of the main cast, so I watch it religiously, so to speak. =) |
Chess news: Rising Chess Stars Win NH Chess Tournament -- In the end, youth was served, but barely. The NH tournament in the Netherlands ended Sunday in victory for the young team of “rising stars.” They edged the “experience” team 26 to 24. Last year the experience team won, 27.5 to 22.5. The chess tournament was organized under the Scheveningen system in which the members of each group play all the members of the other group twice. The top players for the rising stars were Hikaru Nakamura of the United States and Anish Giri of the Netherlands, who each scored 6 points. Giri was ahead of Nakamura before the last round, but he lost to Peter Heine Nielsen of Denmark, while Nakamura drew with Boris Gelfand of Israel, the top-ranked chess ... Dmitry Andreikin wins world junior title -- The 49th World Junior Chess Championship ended Monday in Chotowa, Poland. Every country was invited to send its best young chess players, born in 1990 or later. The record field of 120 players, representing 55 countries, included 20 grandmasters and 34 IMs. Russian chess grandmasters Dmitry Andreikin, age 20, and Sanan Sjugirov, 17, shared first place with scores of 10-3. On tiebreak, Andreikin wins the gold medal. Andreikin had played in four previous World Juniors, with a best result of fourth place in 2007. This year, he was rated highest at 2650 and went undefeated despite facing eight GMs. Sjugirov won the most games (eight) but suffered one upset. Four chess players tied for ... A Nimble Chess Artist -- The former U.S. chess champion Hikaru Nakamura is fast. The quicker the pace on the chess board, the more he seems to enjoy playing. His nimble skills helped him to secure a place for the next traditional Amber tournament, a blindfold and rapid chess extravaganza played every spring on the French Riviera. Competing at the NH tournament in Amsterdam, Nakamura, 22, led the Rising Stars to a 26-24 victory over the chess veterans, the Experience team, on Sunday. Another member of the winning team, the young Dutch champion Anish Giri, 16, had an identical 6-4 score as Hikaru, but only one could qualify for the Amber tournament. In the blitz playoff, Nakamura defeated Giri 2-0, ensuring ... | |