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FCF president Dr Virgilio de Asa said the first clinic of the year received good response and they are expecting it to get even better in the weeks to come.

DYTM Raja Nazrin Shah International Open 2012 DYTM Raja Nazrin Shah International Open , with a total prize fund of RM 45,000 thanks to generous sponsorship from the Masterskill Education Group, will be held in Kuala Lumpur at the Olympic Sports Hotel from 17-23 September 2012.

Arthur Barlas of Chelmsford led a 20-player field in the Wachusett Quick Chess Championship last week at Fitchburg State University, and another slow chess event begins Wednesday.

Kids in second grade all the way to twelfth grade competed in the tournament in hopes of winning a trophy.A The tournament was divided into different sectionsA so kids with different experience levels could participate.

Population growth By ANDY SOLTIS Last Updated: 7:58 PM, February 11, 2012 Posted: 7:58 PM, February 11, 2012 Playing in an international tournament used to mean being a strong master and getting an invitation to a 12- or 14-player round-robin in Europe.

Obama, Explained : As Barack Obama contends for a second term in office, two conflicting narratives of his presidency have emerged.

On Chess: Game offers refuge from the streets Saturday February 11, 2012 10:22 AM My uncle, Harry Lyman, used to recall that in the throes of the Great Depression, during a painful period of unemployment, the game offered him a desperately needed haven.

Kid Chessa„¢ teaches chess to Atlanta area children in a fun and educational environment, on campus at various public and private schools, and with homeschool groups, and other locations.

Georgian Representative of SOCAR and Georgian Chess Federation signed a memorandum of cooperation on Friday.

From the two competing narratives of the Obama presidency to the billionaire monk behind 5-Hour Energy, The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the Web this week.

Romanian Chess Championships 2012 The 2012 Romanian Chess Championships for men and women are set to take place from 10th to 19th February at the Great Hall of the Hotel Casino in Sarata Monteoru.

Manvel Sargsyan: Dissociation of people's movement from parties is a pledge of destruction of the oligarchic system of Armenia The FIDE Candidates Matches will take place in London Oct 23-Nov 13, says FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.

FIDE and ACP The FIDE PB in Al Ain discussed the agreement with ACP and decided as follows: 1. The ACP will be actively involved in the decision-making process within FIDE - The ACP President will be invited to all FIDE Presidential Board meetings.

Friday night there will be snow, mainly before 1 a.m. and a low around 12. 2. Gas prices According toA DetroitGasPrices.com , the lowest reported gasoline price in the White Lake area as of Thursday night was $3.41 per gallon at theA Meijer gas station.

Our English language is constantly morphing. Some words are lost, some are born.

1965 - U.S. spacecraft Ranger 8 is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida, and crashes on the Moon three days later after sending back more than 7,000 pictures.

Gagik Hovhannisyan - head of FIDE Mass Media Committee General Secretary of Armenian Chess Federation, editor-in-chief of "Chess in Armenia" magazine Gagik Hovhannisyan was appointed head of FIDE Mass Media Committee and Adviser for Chess Media Project by FIDE.

In a long essay in the Atlantic, James Fallows identifies two competing narratives about President Obama: that he is a brilliant, calculating political figure with a long-term plan and the idea that he is an inexperienced, naive president.

In less than two years, the Technopark-based Schogini Systems have made giant strides in mobile applications, touching 3,000 downloads every day of their around 450 mobile applications and even getting a word of praise from US President Barack Obama.

Yet we tend to trust it implicitly, in ourselves and in others. This insight belongs to psychologist Daniel Kahneman - Nobel Prize winning cartographer of the human mind, and the author of Thinking, Fast, and Slow .