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Gorris’s adaptation stars John Turturro as Alexander Ivanovich Luzhin, an ingenious but eccentric chess master who is at once addicted and allergic to the game he has mastered. Though his characters is so out of touch with the reality outside of the chessboard that he cannot even hold up a casual conversation, he nonetheless portrays a charming helplessness that neither the audience nor the film’s female protagonist can help responding...
Back in the Cold War days, Washington and Moscow pored over the world map like a chessboard; it was then folded by Boris Yeltsin, who had no appetite for the game. President Vladimir Putin, however, wants to play. And under the tutelage of such old pros as former foreign minister Yevgeny Primakov, Putin's no slouch when it comes to geopolitics. That much was clear earlier this year when the Russian president outflanked Washington among its own NATO allies in the diplomatic battle over U.S. plans for a missile defense system. Since then, he's managed, quite improbably, to revive...
...length. And dabbling in Iran and Iraq also has the potential to blow up in the face of a Russian leader whose Chechen enemies have a far greater emotional claim on the good offices of Islamic countries. Still, Moscow has unleashed a flurry of moves on the geopolitical chessboard. And whoever ends up calling the shots in the White House will have his work cut out for him. Washington's geopolitical free ride of the Yeltsin-Clinton years appears to be well and truly over...
...have been on only a week, and I am hooked. You log on and post how fast you want to play (five minutes for the whole game is customary) and how strong an opponent you want. Within seconds, your screen is alive. A chessboard has appeared; your opponent has already moved; your clock, posted onscreen in ominous Apollo-countdown mode, is running...
...Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak threw down the gauntlet to his Syrian counterpart Sunday, in the form of a cabinet decision to withdraw from south Lebanon by July irrespective of the state of peace negotiations with Syria. And that leaves the Syrian president no easy response on the strategic chessboard of the Mideast's most troubled relationship. "The last thing the Syrians want is a unilateral Israeli withdrawal in Lebanon," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod, "because that would deprive them of one of their most important cards in negotiations with Israel - Syria's ability to guarantee security...