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Archive for the 'Chess' Category

Bobby Fischer

Posted: Friday, January 18th, 2008 @ 5:14 pm in Chess | 4 Comments »

I woke up this morning to find in my email inbox this one-liner from my friend Brian of Gangwon-do: I don’t know what time it is in BC but hurry up and start blogging about Bobby Fischer! I subsequently went to the news sites, and discovered that Bobby Fischer has died. I don’t really have [...]

Kasparov Arrested, Abused, Jailed for 5 Days

Posted: Sunday, November 25th, 2007 @ 10:15 am in American and Foreign, Chess, Current Issues | No Comments »

The world’s greatest chessplayer, who is also a political leader of one of Russia’s opposition parties, was just arrested, abused, and jailed for five days after attending a 3000-strong demonstration. I’ve linked to the Chessbase article, as that provides links to all the major news coverings.

Introductory Notes

Posted: Thursday, March 15th, 2007 @ 6:10 pm in Aeschylus Journal, American and Foreign, Chess, Civic Politics, Classics & Ancient Near East, Current Issues, Euripides Journal, Federal Politics, Iliad Journal, Internet & Blogging, Life of Nathan, Literature, Numismatics, Odyssey Journal, Photoblogging, Politics, Provincial Politics, Sophocles Journal | 2 Comments »

The above categories I put in place to indicate a general overview of what I intend to blog about in this site. The title of the blog is half-reflected in the url, and should hopefully mean that when I give the blog a new theme at some hypothetical point in the future, I won’t have [...]