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Let's chess again

Submitted by EJCC on Sat, 12/02/2011 - 23:23

From the UK Chess Challenge
http://www.ukchesschallenge.com/

Let's Chess Again:
http://www.2seeitlive.com/ukscc/ChessVid

"Sensational new chess video by Alex and Marcus of St Andrew's, Much Haddam, Herts"
http://www.ukchesschallenge.com/Music/LetsChessAgain.wmv

(via Trefor Thynne of Torquay Boys Grammar school)

Chess Quotes

XLVIX.
"'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days
Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays:
Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays,
And one by one back in the Closet lays. "
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, First Edition
http://www.teachersoft.com/Library/poetry/fitzgrld/chapt01.htm
"Impotent Pieces of the Game He plays
Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days;
— Fifth edition, http://www.nmaa.si.edu/vedder/slide37p.html

 There are other editions, and other translations, but none, I think, on the Web.