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The Knight in chess represents an armoured cavalry unit and is usually a horse's head, causing many people to casually refer to it as the "horse." Each player has two Knights positioned at the beginning of the game between your rooks and bishops.

From : Sebouh Z Tashjian Date : Sat, 6 Feb 2010 12:56:42 +0400 22 ARMENIAN CHESS PLAYERS TO PARTICIPATE IN AEROFLOT OPEN TOURNAMENT PanARMENIAN.Net 05.02.2010 15:00 GMT+04:00 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ 22 Armenian chess players will participate in Aeroflot Open tournament due in Moscow from February 9 to 17.

Call this Scott Rothstein's pineapple-juice scam. Coconut Grove businessman Todd Snyder was lured into it just days before the Fort Lauderdale lawyer's Ponzi scheme imploded in late October.

What comes to mind when you think about the game of chess? Academic rivals working through intricate strategies or, perhaps, a set of seniors meeting for their daily game? What about a group of second- and third-graders polishing moves in their queen game? This might not be the image that springs to mind, but it is what happens regularly at Stettin ...

Ourmedia > Jessie Gilbert's autographed Hastings Chess Congress programme 74th International Hastings Chess Congress Jessie Gilbert's autographed Hastings Chess Congress programme Jessie's programme for Hastings, autographed by Stewart Reuben.

Ourmedia > Jessie is queen of chess festival Jessie is queen of chess festival An article from the local press re Jessie's performance at Jersey.

Young achiever: K. Priyanka, a Tirupur school girl, who won the State Under-9 Girls Chess Championship.

Moscow police detained 24 people after an antifascist rally to commemorate the first anniversary of the murder of a human rights lawyer and a journalist, a police spokesman said today.

10 chess players from Yerevan, Vanadzor, Gyumri, Abovyan and Sisian take part in the tournaments.

The competitions brought together 10 female chess players from Vanadzorm Gyumri, Abovyan, Sisian and Yerevan.

More than 150 JPS third through fifth graders will be competing in the Open Doors for the Gifted Annual Chess Tournament from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m., Today, January 21, 2010, at the JSU e-Center on Raymond Road.

Middletown schools will soon be hosting a multi-player chess tournament in which 40 players will challenge 15-year-old Deepak Aaron, who in October won the under-16 division at the North American Youth Chess Championship in Mazatlan, Mexico.

A man was seriously wounded after he was stabbed in the stomach with a plastic snow shovel during a dispute over a chess game.

Only a few months have passed since six of the Los Angeles City Council's 15 members won a third and final term at City Hall.

Peyton Manning and Ray Lewis will spend Saturday night trying to outwit one another.

Date : Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:13:24 +0400 ARMENIA DROP TO 4TH POSITION AT WORLD TEAM CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP PanARMENIAN.Net 11.01.2010 12:55 GMT+04:00 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia made a 2:2 draw with India and suffered a 1:3 defeat by Greece in the 5th and 6th rounds of the World Team Chess Championship respectively.

Wijk Aan Zee , Jan 10 : India's growing might in chess will once again be in full view as a record five Indian players will feature at the 2010 Corus Grandmasters Chess tournament at the Dutch seaside town of Wijk Aan Zee.

Chess veteran Naveen Kumar Wal is no more. The chess player who was popular in the chess fraternity across the country, passed away last night after a brief illness.

Authorities say a simmering dispute over a chess game prompted one Connecticut man to stab another in the stomach with a plastic snow shovel.

Thoughts on the Road says that while there might be a military stalemate between Armenia and Azerbaijan still locked into a state of war over the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh, chess teams from the two countries this week met to compete against each other in the World Chess Championship held in Turkey.