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The Riot-Act is a bulletin board that discusses all things Canberra. Politics, live music scene, various weird stuff is their usual beat, bu...

I was having a conversation (via Skype) with my PNG Olympiad teammate, Stuart Fancy. During the course of the conversation I remarked that c...

Apart from chess there are other games I play. Bridge, Backgammon, Poker are the more serious of them, although I've even played an Othe...

The 2007 Candidates Matches are underway in Elista. 16 players qualified by various means (2006 World Cup, Rating etc) and the top 4 players...

One thing I try and do with this blog is to post something new each day. So far I've been able to do that, and hopefully I will continue...

Given that there is still some debate about whether players really earned their titles at the 2007 Oceania Zonal, I contacted a couple of FI...

Here is an idea I've had kicking around in my head for a while about how to make televised chess interesting to the non-chessplayer. The...