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...problem with the U.S. and NATO leaders is that they talk too much. Their strategies are thus exposed to the enemy. Material advantage is not a guarantee of success. The Yugoslavs and Russians are excellent chess players. While Russia is not directly involved in the war, Russian advisers may be giving their Yugoslav brethren practical pointers in order to win endgames. NESTOR ALMAZAN Mississauga...
Grubby tables and fetid air once seemed to attract me. During high school summers, friends would flock to the striped umbrellas and concrete chess tables of Au Bon Pain, the invariable meeting place for a night out. I drank numerous oily cups of Peet's Coffee, pretending that I was a tortured poet in a proverbial coffee house. I even developed a taste for their tuna croissant-wiches. I have good memories of ABP; it wasn't until college that it started to make me cringe...
Grubby tables and fetid air once seemed to attract me. During high school summers, friends would flock to the striped umbrellas and concrete chess tables of Au Bon Pain, the invariable meeting place for a night out. I drank numerous oily cups of Peet's Coffee, pretending that I was a tortured poet in a proverbial coffee house. I even developed a taste for their tuna croissant-wiches. I have good memories of ABP; it wasn't until college that it started to make me cringe...
Rowling believes Harry has become a crossover hit because she never wrote with a "target audience" in mind. The books certainly work on several levels. They are filled not only with characters familiar to most kids but also with clever jokes about garden gnomes and wizard chess--played with living pieces ("They kept shouting different bits of advice at him, which was confusing: 'Don't send me there, can't you see his knight? Send him, we can afford to lose him'"). As Rowling puts it, "If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed...
...must be hard to play a decent game of chess with all these bombs going off, but Slobodan Milosevic is no patzer -- he's had the white pieces all along and now he's looking to checkmate NATO at the negotiating table. Time for Madeleine and the boys at State to start boning up on their Nimzo-Indian defense. Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) is the best chess movie CP has ever seen (although the Russian wrestler from Kubrick's The Killing should have got a spin-off movie of his own). It's also about a player whose every...