misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - May 02 2008 | chess, strategy, game, download, software
Quoted: In January 1977, the French Situationist Guy Debord founded the Society for Strategic and Historical Games. The Society had an immediate goal: to produce the "Kriegspiel," a "game of war" that Debord had already designed in his head years before. Inspired by the military theory of Carl von Clausewitz and the European campaigns of Napoleon, Debord's game is a chess-variant played by two opposing players on a game board of 500 squares arranged in rows of 20 by 25 squares.
- misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 30 2007 | chess, news, India, Sports
Quoted: Anand, the world’s top-ranked player, won the World Chess Championship in Mexico City that ended yesterday. He dominated the 14-round event, winning four of them and losing none through Round 13.
The article includes moves from his game against Aronian where he plays black and wins.
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