Play Chess Online Against Computer Programs

Most chess players do not have the benefit of being able to refine their game by playing against chess masters, or at least having the benefit of their personal teachings. Luckily, advancements in computer hardware and software has now given chess players a unique opportunity. We can now refine our skills by playing chess against computer chess programs. you are going to be playing chess against computers, there are a few things you should know. One of the greatest chess players to have ever played the game, Garry Kasparov, has had a profound influence in the field of computer chess. He’s participated in many tournaments and was even beaten in a chess match vs Deep Blue. He’s also very popular with the online community, and gave a once in a life time opportunity to thousands of chess players around the world by participating in the first ever Kasparov vs the World chess game.

Chess master Bobby Fischer buried

Reclusive chess genius Bobby Fischer has been buried in a private ceremony at a churchyard in southern Iceland, a television station has reported. Fischer, who died of kidney failure on Thursday at the age of 64, was interred at Laugardalur church outside the town of Selfoss, parish priest the Rev Kristinn Agust Fridfinnsson said. The funeral was attended by only a handful of people, including Fischer's companion, Miyoko Watai, and his Icelandic friend and spokesman Gardar Sverrisson. A troubled chess genius, Fischer gained global fame in 1972 when he defeated the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky in Reykjavik for the world championship. The showdown, played out at the height of the Cold War, took on mythic dimensions as a clash between the world's two superpowers. Fischer lost his world title in 1975 after refusing to defend it against Anatoly Karpov. He dropped out of competitive chess and largely out of view, spending time in Hungary and the Philippines and emerging occasionally to make outspoken and often outrageous comments, sometimes attacking the US. Fischer, born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Brooklyn, New York, was arrested in Japan in 2004 and threatened with extradition to the US to face charges that he broke international sanctions against the former Yugoslavia by going there to play a chess match in 1992. Fischer renounced his US citizenship and spent nine months in custody before the dispute was resolved when Iceland, a chess-mad nation of 300,000, granted him citizenship.

Brody, Wright join musical Chess club
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Adrien Brody will play Chess Records founder Leonard Chess in "Cadillac Records," a musical biopic that follows the turbulent lives of such bluesmen as Muddy Waters, Little Walter, and Howlin' Wolf. Additionally, Jeffrey Wright will play Waters in the tale of sex, violence, race and rock 'n' roll in 1950s Chicago. Writer/director Darnell Martin will start shooting the Sony BMG Film project in early March in New Jersey and Mississippi. Matt Dillon had been attached to play Chess, but had to drop out because of a scheduling conflict. The Chess Records roster included not only Waters, Little Walter and Howlin' Wolf, but also the likes of Chuck Berry, Willie Dixon and Etta James. It proved hugely influential on such acts as the Rolling Stones, who recorded at the Chicago studio in the early '60s and even recorded an instrumental named after its street address. Also newly cast in the film are Columbus Short, Cedric the Entertainer, Emmanuelle Chriqui and Tammy Blanchard. Brody recently wrapped the indie film "The Brothers Bloom," while Wright is filming the new James Bond movie in London.Cedric the Entertainment co-stars in the comedy "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins," which opens February 8. Short is filming the thriller "Armored" with Dillon and recently wrapped the horror film "Quarantined." Chriqui's credits include HBO's "Entourage" and the indie film "Tortured." Blanchard recently finished production on the independent romance comedy "The Ramen Girl."