Just use it as an opportunity to play your best chess and see how you match up.

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It may be great to be a woman and play chess in Hungary, or even China, but American women have yet to get the bug.

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Coffee houses were a new institution in which men met together to talk, listen to poets and play games like chess and backgammon.

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The game had just fifteen or twenty dynamics in it how the mushrooms work, how the blocks react when you hit them yet they combined in such a way to produce a seemingly limitless array of experiences and moves, and to provide opportunities for an alternative, idiosyncratic style of play, which brings to mind nothing so much as chess.

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It remains to be seen how this chess game will play out.

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He wants to live forever, have the option to escape to outer space or an oceanic city-state, and play chess against a robot that can discuss Tolkien, because these were the fantasies that filled his childhood imagination.

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For the first time on Facebook, Idle Worship provides players with synchronous play: the ability to interact with other players in real time, as opposed to the old chess-by-email systems employed by the majority of social games.

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