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| Posted by tag1153 blitzbrain.com 12/07/2005 09:37:18 Play online chess | Good flick........ Message: mypiecesareninjas ——— New and Old Chess Champions — As we enter the new decade, the chess world is ruled by a middle-aged man and a teenage girl. A twenty-something phenom presides over the world's chess ratings and a new book recalling one of the greatest chess magicians has been published recently. The Chess Champions. Vishy Anand steps into the year 2011 as the world chess champion. At 41, the Indian grandmaster can look back on his career contentedly. In 1991 in Brussels, he almost eliminated Anatoly Karpov from the world championship cycle. In the next 20 years, Anand won many major tournaments and world championships under different formats and time controls. How long can Anand keep the world title is ... Posted by eqj2 | blitzbrain.com 12/07/2005 10:44:30 Play online chess Message: ——— To Play Better Against Attractive Women, Men Need to Avert Their Eyes — Do men get distracted by and play chess differently against attractive women than against other opponents? Yes, according to a study by Swedish researchers. Called “Beauty Queens and Battling Knights: Risk Taking and Attractiveness in Chess,” the study used a large data set of results from international chess tournaments and cross-referenced them with photographs of 626 of the chess players — almost half of them women — whose attractiveness was rated by at least 50 independent observers. The study concluded, “Our results suggest that male chess players choose significantly riskier strategies when playing against an attractive female opponent, even though this does not ... |