http://www.radicalroot.com/chessincheek If chess is the royal game, then I am the king's jester. Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:13:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Try putting THAT down next to your King. Actually, they may have to get rid of the rule that two pieces can't occupy the same square...the King may decree that the Queen sits in his lap from now on. Yes, for the terminally uninformed...that is Alexandra Kosteniuk of Russia, the new Women's ... http://www.radicalroot.com/chessincheek/?p=20 http://www.radicalroot.com/chessincheek/?p=18 Magnus Carlsen (the Scandinavian Tom Sawyer) at 14 http://www.radicalroot.com/chessincheek/?p=16 Photos from chessbase http://www.radicalroot.com/chessincheek/?p=10 On Wednesday, Universal Event Promotion announced, as expected, that Vishwanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik will compete in an October 2008 match for the World Chess Championship. However, in a surprise move that is sure to generate controversy -- possibly even mild indignation -- UEP simultaneously issued a press release accusing ... http://www.radicalroot.com/chessincheek/?p=8 Alexei Shirov Gata Kamsky Pictures are from Chessbase. http://www.radicalroot.com/chessincheek/?p=6 After Norwegian Magnus Carlsen and Ukrainian Sergey Karjakin, wunderkinds of the World Cup, charged through the quarterfinals, leaving Cheparinov and Alekseev in the dust as the latest in a long string of victims, promoters of youth chess drooled at the prospect of an all-underage World Cup Final. Chess would become ... http://www.radicalroot.com/chessincheek/?p=3