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...Every 20 years or so, I get missionary about a Broadway show - to be exact, about the music I love in a certain Broadway show. In the 80s the show was Chess, with book and lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, late of the Swedish pop group ABBA. For me, Chess was by far the finest score of the decade, rich and varied and powerful, and thrillingly melodic. It put tunes in my head that still sit up and sing there. In TIME, I wrote about Chess when it was still an album...
...campaign meetings when the President was 8 points up," says outgoing Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie. In fact, Democrats admitted to feeling some envy of the Bush team's discipline. Says former Kerry campaign manager Jim Jordan: "They understand that politics is a game of checkers, not chess," a steady progression in one direction across the field of play. "The quality of your plan," says Jordan, "is not as important as the quality of your execution...
...he’s won most but not all of those games,” Elkies says in an e-mail. “That’s what would be expected from the fact that we’re both masters but he’s a speed-chess specialist and I haven’t played a tournament game in some 15 years...
Although competitive chess was once part of his life, Turnbull stopped playing rated chess matches in 1990. Since then, his ranking has slid a few points...
Turnbull isn’t playing chess publicly this month: he’s studying. With the end of the “season” for Turnbull comes his “vacation.” He spends much of that time watching chess matches between others online...