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...Ilyumzhinov took over the presidency of the venerable Federation Internationale des Echecs, FIDE for short, which curates the rules of chess and tabulates the world rankings. He immediately set out to reshape the sport in his own image. In an attempt to make chess more sponsor friendly, he compressed the traditional two-year championship schedule into a more dramatic three-week tournament. He sweetened the pot with liberal infusions of cash from his deep pockets and sped up the game clock, discarding the time-honored classical chess format, in which players spend hours elaborating intricate moves, in favor of rapid...
With the Crimson clearly dominating play but seeing its shots turned away time and time again by Danis—a bona fide French-Canadian puck-stopping machine—Moore took matters into his own hands. But of course, it didn’t come easy...
Operators express concern that occasionally the wrong IMEI could be mistakenly supplied and a bona fide customer could be incorrectly cut off. They also allege that manufacturers sometimes duplicate IMEI numbers, so barring calls from a particular IMEI could render a legitimate handset useless. Not the case, say some manufacturers, although others admit to using the same IMEI numbers in handsets destined for different parts of the world. Would disabling all stolen IMEI numbers be such a bad idea? "Imagine you have 100 phones with the same IMEI, and you cut them all off," says Jack Wraith, a spokes...
...European Union and almost every other political alliance dreamed up by the world's multilateralists. That could change this weekend, when voters decide whether the country should finally join an organization it has hosted for 55 years: the United Nations. If the vote is positive, the only bona fide state in the world left outside the U.N. will be the Vatican...
...main reason for Brown’s recent success has been sophomore goaltender Yann Danis, who leads the ECAC with a microscopic 1.33 goals-against average and is a bona fide candidate for Player of the Year. Defense and goaltending often prevail in the playoffs, which certainly bodes well for Brown...