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Even pro chess players - a population inured to demonstrations of extraordinary intellect - have been electrified by Carlsen's rise. A grand master at 13 (the third youngest in history) and a conqueror of top players at 15, he is often referred to as the Mozart of chess for the seeming ease of his mastery. In September, he announced a coaching contract with Garry Kasparov, arguably the greatest player of all time, who quit chess in 2005 to pursue a political career in Russia. "Before he is done," Kasparov says, "Carlsen will have changed our ancient game considerably." (See pictures...
...beautiful mind is that a life spent probing the edges of the infinite - the possible permutations of a chess game outnumber the estimated number of atoms in the universe - will eventually lead to madness. Grand masters say Carlsen's precociousness is reminiscent of Bobby Fischer's. The great American player spent his later years in isolation, reappearing only to spout anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. "It's easy to get obsessed with chess," Carlsen says. "That's what happened with Fischer and Paul Morphy," another prodigy lost to madness. "I don't have that same obsession." (Read: "Fischer vs. Spassky: Battle...
...Bloody Valentine, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Chandni Chowk to China and the implausibly popular Taken. Later this month we'll be treated to the spectacles of Jackie Chan as a babysitter in The Spy Next Door and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as a brutal hockey player who's forced to become The Tooth Fairy. But in February there's the new Martin Scorsese, plus a fine French thriller A Prophet and the sequel to the parkour classic District 13. So there's reason for optimism at the movie houses, long before the next Leap Year...
Although Lin’s teammates might be offended by Kolloer’s suggestion that Lin is the Crimson’s only decent player, they seem to be letting their play do the talking. After all, Kyle D. Casey '13 put up 19 points—just as many as Garcia did—coming off the bench...
Over the past two decades Mexico City has emerged as a player in the international contemporary-art scene, with a clutch of world-class artists, cutting-edge galleries and deep-pocketed collectors - of which juice tycoon Eugenio Lopez is the most important. Located at his family's sprawling Jumex juice factory just outside the capital, Lopez's Colección Jumex is a priceless assemblage of works by blue-chip local and international artists ranging from Gabriel Orozco to Andy Warhol. It is unequaled in Latin America...