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| Posted by premium_steve uskidscompute.com 9/09/2002 14:00:35 |  Subject: Chess articles online???Message: I'm doing a work project to help with my tuition fees. I need articles that tell about the benefits of playing chess for kids and adults. Like how it gets the brain working, how it might help with math in school, for example, or just how it may help with school marks in general. benefits, you know? whatever works! info about research studies would be great too. So, any of you know offhand where i might find anything? thanks a lot, Steve |
| Posted by penniwoma uskidscompute.com 9/09/2002 14:06:21 | Message: www.uschess.org/scholastic/sc-research.html ... maybe that will help. |
| Posted by premium_steve uskidscompute.com 9/09/2002 16:51:25 | Message: fantastic yeah! there are some new articles/research there from around the world too, i see. just what i wanted. thanks so much, penniwoma :) ——— Michael Adams beats Nigel Short to retain British Chess Championship title — The England No1, Michael Adams, retained the British Chess Championship at Sheffield by beating the No2 seed, Nigel Short, 1.5-0.5 in a speed play-off after they tied with 8.5/11 in the main tournament. Both have competed against the international elite and they justified their status as strong favourites. Adams has been in fine form recently and now goes to the World Cup in Russia starting 26 August, an event where he has twice reached the final and which qualifies three chess players for the next world candidates. But as the 39-year-old Cornishman himself admitted after Sheffield, other chess players had chances there in the nervous final two rounds to disrupt ... |
| Posted by penniwoma uskidscompute.com 9/09/2002 16:58:16 | Message: you're welcome steve! :-Þ ——— Rostov Hosts Chess Tournament, Attracts the Most Intelligent Women on the Planet — Some of the most intelligent women on the planet, the chess grandmasters, have gathered in the Russian city of Rostov for the Women's Chess Grand Prix. The event, which opens the 2011-2012 Grand Prix cycle, takes place from August 1 to August 15, 2011 and is likely to become one of the most significant tournaments in the history of women's chess because of the players lineup. Top-seeded, the incumbent champion, Hou Yifan of China, the two former world chess champions, Alexandra Kosteniuk of Russia and Antoaneta Stefanova of Bulgaria, as well as the world championship title challenger Humpy Koneru of India are the highest ranked female chess players in the world. Rostov, a city located on ... |