Ancient Greeks used it as a question mark; and after classical scholar and master printer Aldus Manutius revived it in a 1494 font set, semicolons slowly spread across Europe. Though London first saw semicolons appear in a 1568 chess guide, Shakespeare grew up in an era that still scarcely recognized them; some of his Folio typesetters in 1623, though, were clearly converts.
Next come the rooks. In my thinking, these are the people in Engineering and HR. They can move only in straight lines, but they can be useful in battle if you force them to get off their backsides (backlines) and make a difference.
We're so completely lost in our universe of 64 black and white squares that we like to think every move we make changes the way the world exists. So it's easy for Russians to imagine that chess began when they started to play it. In 1991, at my first international tournament, in Reggio Emilia in northern Italy, a Russian grandmaster condescendingly told me I could at best be a coffee-house player because I had not been tutored in the Soviet school of chess, which then dominated the sport. With the arrogance of youth — I was 21 — I thought to myself, "But didn't we Indians invent chess? Why shouldn't I have my own route to the top of the sport?"
I'm not going to bore you with my interpretation of the USCF Championship Guidelines.
Instead I appeal to your sense of fairness and truthiness.
After all, it's not what the rules say that matters.
It's what you know in your heart to be right.
June proved to be a merry month for chesser Jayson Gonzales after the Quezon City-native finally snatched his long-cherished grandmaster (GM) crown.
This developed after Gonzales finished with nine points on six wins and six draws in the recent Philippines vs. Myanmar Dual Chess Championships, enough for his Elo rating of 2490 to jump to 2520. His current Elo rating breached the 2500 benchmark for a GM title, making Gonzales the country’s 9th GM.
Mr. Theodoros Tsorbatzoglou, the new Marketing director of European Chess Union and chairman of E.C.C. Organizing Committee, shared with the Chessdom team in Halkidiki, "European Chess Union is the most dynamic chess organization. E.C.U Board is prepared to put new standards for chess events following all the principal rules in sports' marketing. In this direction we will move starting with some innovations in Club Cup. We will try to change our image to be more sporty and attractive for sponsors and media."Read more on Chessdom
Football at its best, and here it was often at its best, is a blend of chess, ballet and war. It was hard to discern the chess aspect, so frenetic was the pace. But ballet was represented by Ronaldo, with the lacquered hair and the step-overs that add to the impression of a puppet on speed. And war? Well, there were tussles everywhere.
Are amateurs collectively wiser than a single expert? That’s the question the Web site CrowdChess is trying to answer.
The book The Wisdom of Crowds promoted the idea that large groups are often able to make better decisions than experienced professionals. Over the last few years, that idea has been adopted as conventional wisdom: Some businesses have "crowd sourced" projects to communities; Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, grew from this notion.
To put the wisdom of crowds to the test, Stan Oleynick, the founder of CrowdChess, recruited Gawain Jones, a grandmaster from England, to play against the collective intelligence of his site’s visitors. "Chess is the ultimate game of strategy and foresight," and thus is a good test of crowd theory, Oleynick tells the Business Technology Blog.
WuChess, a partnership between Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and ChessPark, a social network around online chess playing, launches today. It’s the "world’s first online chess and hip hop community" and will also include exclusive videos and mp3 of the "hottest cats in hip hop."From TechCrunch
