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CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/Dec. 26, 2013 2

LEGENDARY AMERICAN CHESS SHADOW AND US CHESS CHAMPION JOHN GREFE DIES Dallas, Texas … this just in from Dallas … “The Chief” of Fat Katz International chess promotions … the here-there-and-everywhere shadow … international chess master and U.S. chess Co-Champion (with the great Kavalek) in 70’s El Paso, Texas long […]


CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/Dec. 19, 2013

NAKAMURA NETS $70,000 PLUS London, England … LONDON “CHESS CLASSIC SUPER 16” INTERNATIONAL 2013 TOURNEY officials have confirmed THE GUARANTEED payout to winner … World # 3 ranked SUPER CHESS GRANDMASTER, AMERICAN CHESS GREAT H. NAKAMURA … 50,000 EUROS OR 70,000 PLUS AMERICAN US DOLLAR … as world number three […]


CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/Dec. 18, 2013 1

MONSTER ONE MILLION DOLLAR … ($1,000,000 CASH … AMERICAN DOLLARINOS!!!!!!!!!) LAS VEGAS 2014 OPEN-TO-PUBLIC-CHESS TOURNEY SET … Las Vegas, Nevada … millionaire Amy Lee has guaranteed in advance THE ONE, THE ONLY MONEY MAN American Grandmaster Maurice Ashley one million dollars cash prizes (First prize $100,000!!! ANYBODY CAN PLAY!!!!) for […]


CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/Dec. 16, 2013

LONDON, ENGLAND …  US Chess Monster H. Nakamura wins London World Top 16 Rapid Mega Cash Event … THIS JUST  IN … from our friends at CHESSBOMB.COM …    American H.NAKAMURA is hauling mucho gold to ye olde bank! The World #3 Rated Super Chess Grandmaster Nakamura DEFEATED former World Chess Champion V. Kramnik […]


CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/Dec 8, 2013

US CHESS MONSTER NAKAMURA NOW WORLD #3 ELO RANKED The up to the day world elo top ”live” chess ratings show American grandmaster H. NAKAMURA has hit the big time millionaire status …THE 25 YEAR OLD GRANDMASTER DEFEATED FORMER WORLD CHAMPION KRAMNIK EN ROUTE TO A TERRIFIC TEAM USA DEFEAT […]


CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/Dec 6, 2013

IMMORTAL FREEDOM FIGHTER NELSON MANDELA (CHESS PLAYER!!) DIES AT 95 IN SOUTH AFRICA The man who played chess ruthlessly and often with great ponderous reflection of every move at South Africa’s Robben Prison in 1964 … and for 27 subsequent torturous years of political prison life … has died … […]


The City As Chess Board

Via Henry Grabar at Salon: Too often, [Pedro] Ortiz says, we think of the metropolis like a dartboard, one whose concentric circles of development decline in value and importance with distance from the center. This is the radial or orbital model of metropolitan planning, one that prizes centrality above all. […]