Chess (#1002)

Source: Business Standard

Each player has won one game. An overview would show Anand had some winning chances in game three, and Gelfand had some winning chances in Game nine. In both cases, the defender proved stubborn enough and ingenious e ...
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A Tribute To Radio Legend Hal Jackson

Source: NPR

Host Michel Martin and Tell Me More editor Ammad Omar comb through listener feedback and give news updates from past stories. They remember pioneering African-American broadcaster Hal Jackson, who died this week at age 96. They also give a ...
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SANDS: Nakamura, Krush reclaim U.S. chess titles

Source: Washington Times

Two ex-champions are back atop the heap in American chess and we finally got a little action in the world title match as well, in what proved to be an exceptionally eventful week for the game. Two of the fiercest rivalries in the U.S. gam ...
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Lubomir Kavalek: U.S. Chess Champ Hikaru Nakamura: I'll Have Another

Source: The Huffington Post

They fought gallantly and when it was over on Saturday afternoon, the horse, I'll Have Another, and the chessplayer, Hikaru Nakamura, 24, were declared winners almost at the same time. The comparison between the Preakness Stakes horse race hel ...
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2012 U.S. and Women's Chess Champions Crowned in Saint Louis

Source: Street Insider

ST. LOUIS, May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis (CCSCSL) crowned Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, 24, of Saint Louis, the 2012 U.S. Chess Champion and International Master Irina Krush, 28, of Brooklyn, ...
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New US Chess Champion Talks Music

Source: NPR

Audio for this story from Tell Me More will be available at approx. 3:00 p.m. ET Over the weekend, Hikaru Nakamura won the 2012 U.S. Chess Championship in St. Louis, Missouri. He's the top-ranked chess player in the co ...
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Nakamura, of St. Louis, wins U.S. chess championship

Source: St. Louis Business Journal

This was printed from St. Louis Business Journal The No. 1 ranked chess player in the U.S., Hikaru Nakamura, has won the U.S. Men’s Chess Championship in St. Louis, KMOX reports. Nakamura, of St. Louis, won after his opp ...
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Rising to the Challenge

Source: Time Magazine

In Tokyo, young people have sent donations and cut electricity consumption to help the victims up north Of all the calamities that have befallen Kouhei Nagatsuka, age 18, in the past month the March 11 earthquake that devasta ...
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Solar eclipse: 'Ring of fire' wows Pacific sky-gazers

Source: NDTV

Millions turned their eyes to the sky on both sides of the Pacific to gaze excitedly as a solar eclipse created a "ring of fire" at dawn in Asia and crept towards a darkening western United States. The eclipse was visible ...
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