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...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 chess, an adrenalized variant in which each game lasts just 50 minutes. "Chess had to be commercialized. Investment had to be brought in," Ilyumzhinov insists. That must be what he had in mind when he staged the 1999 world championships at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas...
Seirawan, the top-ranked American player, may be the game's last best hope. One of the few voices of reason in a game full of mad geniuses, he has been circulating a compromise proposal: create separate world championships for classical, rapid and ultra-fast blitz chess and appoint a chess commissioner to mediate between players and organizers. His plan will be discussed at a players' meeting in Prague...
Democratic candidate and former state senator Warren E. Tolman said he was surprised by the rapid turn of events...
...rapid entry into the race came after a welcome-home event in Belmont on Monday. He said he had originally planned a more dramatic event to celebrate his announcement but toned down the announcement because of Swift’s decision to withdraw...
...funeral produces Big Shot's most creative moments: among the bizarre product placements are contact lenses for the corpse's eyes, a bottle of mineral water propped in his hand, running shoes for his feet. Of course, we never get to see the funeral itself because Tyler makes a rapid recovery. The movie, unfortunately, doesn...