Bobby Fischer

EPT Vilamoura: Final table player profiles

The final table is set for the Main Event of EPT Vilamoura, with the following players gunning for the €404,793 first prize. For a full list of prizewinners to date, see the prizewinners page . There's also a full prize...

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Glossy News - Streisand Auctions Random Crap to Pay for 9th Nose Job

Posted on October 24, 2009. Tags: Fux News channel reports that rap singer and amateur actress Barbra Streisand has been selling clothes, movie costumes, personal sex toys, autographed erotic pantywear and items of garden...

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Five more draws in second round Tal Memorial

The same story as yesterday reaches us from Moscow, Russia: five more draws in round 2 of the Tal Memorial kept everyone together in first and last place, but also today we saw a number of interesting games. The Tal Memorial...

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Review: Bobby Fischer – Career and Complete Games

I am one of those people who, despite all the obvious advantages, dislikes virtual music libraries. I need to have the actual albums to get a feeling for the music, which otherwise sounds utterly inpersonal to me. Call me...

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An 'uncanny' aptitude for chess Wilton student is no ordinary player

WILTON By LAUREN MYLO Hour Staff Writer Two weeks ago, Wiltonian Kapil Chandran beat a chess grandmaster who once beat legendary chess player Bobby Fischer. The next weekend, Kapil, 11, hosted a Halloween party with friends...

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EPT Warsaw: Jeff Sarwer plays game of his life to lead in Poland

The denouement of the chess-based film Searching for Bobby Fischer features a match played between a couple of pre-pubescent prodigies, one named Josh Waitzkin and the other Jonathan Poe. Waitzkin was a real-life player, whose...

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Austin Film Festival: Thursday Panel & Film Picks

Steven Zaillian present a retrospective of The Falcon and The Snowman tonight at the Alamo Ritz Excitement and anticipation was thick in the air last night as Austin Film Festival goers began to claim their badges and passes....

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Cold War makes a big impact on the playing fields of sports - Feature

Hamburg - Olympic boycotts were a major instrument of power as the playing fields of sports were not spared in the Cold War between the superpowers United States and Soviet Union and their allies. Confrontations like the chess...

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Magistral Casino de Barcelona 2009 - 10-players round robin on 2-10th November

On Monday, November 2nd at 15.45 the Chess Tournament Magistral Casino de Barcelona 2009 will take start. This year the Tournament is organised by the Catalonian Chess Federation and sponsored by the Casino of Barcelona (Group...

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Washington Post - Chess

WASHINGTON POST - The final standings were: Carlsen 8 points in 10 games, Topalov 5 1/2 points, Wang Yue of China 4 1/2 points; Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan, Peter Leko of Hungary and Dmitry Jakovenko of Russia, each 4...

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