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		<title>New York Times: In Tucson, women taking up chess</title>
		<link>http://greenpointchess.org/2009/12/25/in-tucson-women-taking-up-chess/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Barke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpt from the New York Times article &#0034;In Tucson, Women and Girls Are Finding a Place at the Chessboard&#0034; by Dylan Loeb McClain. 25 December 2009.]]></description>
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		<title>The taliban hate chess&#8230;surprise surprise.</title>
		<link>http://greenpointchess.org/2009/11/29/the-taliban-hate-chess-surprise-surprise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Keener</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Taliban caught Haji Shirullah, a Kabul businessman, playing chess in his office with his brother they burnt the chessboard and the pieces. &#0034;They put us in jail for two days,&#0034; he recalled with a rueful smile. &#0034;The Taliban believed chess was a form of gambling and distracted people from saying their prayers.&#0034;]]></description>
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		<title>McCain Economics Adviser Has a Grandmaster&#039;s Rank</title>
		<link>http://greenpointchess.org/2008/09/28/mccain-economics-adviser-has-a-grandmasters-rank/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Barke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From today&#0039;s New York Times:
Could a grandmaster become a member of the next administration? Possibly. Kenneth S. Rogoff, a professor at Harvard, is an economics adviser to the Republican presidential nominee, Senator John McCain. Rogoff is also a grandmaster.
Rogoff said an understanding of chess helped him learn economics: &#0034;The whole logic of game theory, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chess in space</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Barke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via puddingpie:
Greg Chamitoff, an American astronaut stationed at the International Space Station, is a chess player who plays Mission Control at the rate of one move per day! Barred from bringing magnetic pieces, he uses a lightweight plastic set fitted with Velcro.
He is currently playing six simultaneous games&#8212;one against each of the mission&#0039;s ground stations. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three chess articles in yesterday&#039;s New York Times</title>
		<link>http://greenpointchess.org/2008/09/01/nyt-chess-articles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Barke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chess was all over yesterday&#0039;s New York Times:

Dealing in Chess Futures? Bet on This Norwegian a short bio on Magnus Carlesen in Arts &#38; Leisure
Georgia Conflict Resounds at Chess Championships on protesting the women&#0039;s world championship in International
Saluting the Game&#0039;s Greats in Events Named for Them, a weekly column in the Metro Section

All three are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chess book may (or may not) have Leonardo illustrations</title>
		<link>http://greenpointchess.org/2008/04/14/chess-book-may-or-may-not-have-leonardo-illustrations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Barke</dc:creator>
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Reported discoveries of lost works by Leonardo da Vinci are almost as common as, well, images of the Mona Lisa.
The latest attribution to be proposed involves the design for the illustrations in a chess book from around 1500. The book, &#0034;De Ludo Scachorum,&#0034; or &#0034;The Game of Chess,&#0034; is by Luca Pacioli, a Franciscan friar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anand wins Morelia-Linares 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Barke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Internet Chess Club weekly newsletter, volume III, issue X:
 The Morelia-Linares super-tournament has now concluded in Spain&#8212;and everyone agrees it rated as one of the most entertaining and interesting elite event of recent years!
Those were more or less the words world champion Vishy Anand used as he talked to Macauley Peterson for Chess.FM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linares: Battle of the Ages</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Barke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Internet Chess Club weekly newsletter, volume III, issue IX:
The two-continent affair that is Morelia-Linares has now moved from Mexico to its ancestral home in Spain&#8212;and it&#0039;s now turning into an intriguing duel of the ages between world champion Vishy Anand, and the young pretender to his throne, Magnus Carlsen!
Both players are setting a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brooklyn Chess Club in New York Times</title>
		<link>http://greenpointchess.org/2008/02/10/brooklyn-chess-club-in-new-york-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Barke</dc:creator>
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In the Land of Fischer, Dismay and Awe
Saki Knafo
New York Times 10  February 2008
On Saturdays, a dozen habitu&#233;s of the Brooklyn Chess Club sit under fluorescent lights in a synagogue in Canarsie, moving plastic pawns and bishops across rubbery chess mats.
Despite its name, the club is in no way related to the Brooklyn Chess [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sahovski Informator turns 42</title>
		<link>http://greenpointchess.org/2008/02/07/sahovski-informator-turns-42/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Barke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Gambit: The New York Times Chess Blog:
 The Serbian publication Sahovski Informator (Chess Informant) recently marked 42 years of operation with its 100th volume. Appearing three times a year (twice a year over most of its run), Informant provides hundreds of deeply annotated games, as well as combinations and endings. To render the commentary [...]]]></description>
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