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...Most chess champions play their first game before age five. MAURICE ASHLEY didn't start until he was 14, but it didn't take long to recognize that he had a knack with a knight. Last week, at age 33, he became the first African-American grand master in history and one of only 45 grand masters in the U.S. He won the title, the highest distinction bestowed by the International Chess Federation, after besting a Romanian grand master at a New York City tournament. The victory came on Ashley's home turf: until 18 months ago, when he joined...
...eyed man appears to be talking about chess. "In order to kill your enemies you should know how to move your pawns," says Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia. But his thoughts are really on his kind of politics. There are no political opponents, only enemies to be eliminated; no debate, only plots to survive. "If you lead with your big pieces, you put them in danger." He knows about danger. He followed and abandoned the genocidal dictator Pol Pot, survived the Khmer Rouge's killing fields and civil war to become master of a country haunted by 1.7 million...
...without walls," he tells TIME. Within the compound, he often works till 1 a.m. or 2 a.m, and last week he was busily pitting his instinct to survive against the U.S. State Department's preferred way of dealing with the Khmer Rouge's bloody legacy. His only relaxation is chess. Grinning, he says, "I usually...
...Harvard Chess Club (HCC) also has a locker in Loker, and HCC President Shearwood "Woody" McClelland '00 says it is "not enough...
...that e-mail from ranting strangers isn't for everyone. So here's another way to have more fun with e-mail, one to one. Hasbro Interactive's Em@il Games are $15 programs that attach interactive game boards to most e-mail programs so people can play Scrabble, chess, Battleship and other amusements. Demo versions can be sampled at www.emailgames.com Now if only there were a way to play on the train...