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		<title>Anand Beats Topalov to Retain Title!!</title>
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SOFIA, BULGARIA &#8211; Viswanathan Anand defeated Veselin Topalov with the Black pieces in the 12th and deciding game of their world championship match today to retain his title by a score of 6.5 to 5.5.  Topalov&#8217;s 32. exf4 may go down as one of the most controversial moves in world chess championship history.
Topalov simply needed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rookhouse.com/blog/?p=335</link>
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		<title>An Unbelievable Mate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During my extensive research on Jackson Showalter, I recently came across this article from 1916 that details an inexplicable eleven move checkmate suffered by then American chess champion Frank Marshall at a Brooklyn, New York simul.
The article is shown below and the moves of the game are also given.
SOURCE: Washington Post &#8211; April 23rd, 1916

[Event "Simul"]
[Site "Brooklyn, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rookhouse.com/blog/?p=325</link>
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		<title>Botvinnik-Capablanca (1936)</title>
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The third Moscow international chess tournament in 1936 had an impressive field of participants, including two former world champions (Jose Raul Capablanca, Emanuel Lasker) and one future world champion (Mikhail Botvinnik).  The tournament took place at the Hall of Columns in Moscow, Russia from May 14th to June 8th, 1936.
The solid mix of Western and Soviet competitors were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rookhouse.com/blog/?p=323</link>
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		<title>Remembering Bobby Fischer</title>
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One year ago today, the greatest chess player of all time passed away in Iceland of kidney failure.  Bobby Fischer was 64 years old when he died and despite the fact that he had not played competitive chess since 1992, he was still the most talked about player in the annals of chess history.
There have  since been discussions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rookhouse.com/blog/?p=320</link>
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		<title>Even Champions Can Blunder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stefano Roselli del Turco was a strong international chess player in the 1920&#8217;s and 1930&#8217;s.  He won the Italian Chess Championship in 1920, 1923, and 1931.  Even this strong chess master was not immune to bad games or blunders.
At the famous 1925 Baden-Baden tournament, he played a game against the legendary Efim Bogoljubow in which he was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rookhouse.com/blog/?p=319</link>
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		<title>Reshevsky&#8217;s Tournament Debut</title>
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Samuel Reshevsky, the legendary chess prodigy who was born in Poland and later immigrated to the United States, made his tournament debut at the age of 10 years old.  The site was the Chess Club International in New York City and the date was October 8th, 1922.
The youngster&#8217;s opponent was Charles Jaffe, a very accomplished [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rookhouse.com/blog/?p=317</link>
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		<title>Latest Chess Poll</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Which Chess Match That Never Took Place Would You Most Like To Have Seen?
Our recent poll poses an interesting question, one of which makes you go back in time and really think about the matchups that never took place.  This is one of the most compelling polls that we&#8217;ve come up with and one of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rookhouse.com/blog/?p=297</link>
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		<title>Kasparov Undone</title>
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The 1983 qualifying cycle to determine a challenger for Anatoly Karpov was filled with chess legends both past and future.  In the quarterfinal round, up and coming Russian player Garry Kasparov faced off against fellow Russian, Alexander Beliavsky.
With Kasparov ahead by a full point, Beliavsky turned out a masterpiece in game 4 of their match.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rookhouse.com/blog/?p=308</link>
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		<title>A Capablanca Masterpiece</title>
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The London International Chess Congress of 1922 provided us with many memorable games.  Jose Raul Capablanca was the reigning world champion at the time and headlined an impressive cast of participants.  His first round game was against future world champion Max Euwe, the very first meeting between these two great players.
Capablanca had the black pieces [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rookhouse.com/blog/?p=306</link>
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		<title>Hermann Helms (1870-1963)</title>
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Hermann Helms, &#8220;the dean of American chess&#8221;, was an accomplished chess columnist and an attacking chess player of national master caliber.  His chess career included wins over American legends Harry Nelson Pillsbury and Frank James Marshall.  He also won the New York state championship on two separate occasions (1906, 1925) and represented the United States [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rookhouse.com/blog/?p=305</link>
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