Elsewhere on the Web : Short Takes
Saturday January 17, 2004
Chess pops up in places where you would never expect it to be!
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Contest turns junk into art
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'More than 400 Butler County children made art out of garbage, and Thursday some won savings bonds for their efforts.'
One of the top sculptures was Turning Trash into Chess.
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Cry hallelujah for this pair of TV families
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'"I don't know how to play this game," Joan tells God, disguised as a chess tutor. "... How do I get out?"' God replies, 'There are many ways to get out. Surrender is one. Losing is another. Winning. Cheating, which I don't recommend. But you have to do something. You have to have a strategy. See, the number one rule of chess is this: Whatever you do, don't play the other person's game. Play your own.'
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Here are more
Joan of Arcadia
chess links from Google.
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Is he game?
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'The kind of indoor game that your man likes will tell you what kind of chap he is, and if he’s the sort of chap you want him to be.'
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'Chess : The most mental of games. If your man loves chess he’s either very hot up there or he’s planning to be.'
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In a recent Elsewhere on the Web, we mentioned some
famous movies
with chess as a theme.
Chessmates
is in development for the current season
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'The heartwarming and inspirational true story of a man in a midlife crisis who decides to change his own life, and in the process, changes for the better the lives of the inner-city kids he meets. English teacher David MacEnulty teaches a group of inner-city African American school kids how to play chess, and then takes them into the elitist world of chess competition.'
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