5 new shots posted. Barely weeks after winning the East Africa Chess Championship, Elijah Emojong is eyeing similar success on the continent when he competes at the Zone 4.2 Africa Championship due May 9-19 in Khartoum, Sudan. 17 candidates are vying for five seats on the board of top U.S. indie music trade group the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM). The list looks like a Who's Who of the indie music business: 1) Joe Parker (ABKCO... Not much information is available about this improvised chess-set; it was reportedly created by a US Marine rifleman in Afghanistan. Marine 0311 Rifleman buddy's homemade set in Afghanistan (via Neatorama)... On a sunny Friday afternoon, it's not surprising to see about 20 young students quietly engaged in a serious game of chess at Public School 226 in University Heights. From performing Shakespeare and Chekhov to acting as Marvel's comic-book muse: It's been a strange career arc for Tom Hiddleston, but he'll take it. The 30 -year-old British actor had worked with Kenneth Branagh on a U.K. stage production of _Ivanov_ (after well-regarded work in _Othello_ opposite Ewan McGregor and Chiwetel Ejiofor), and when Branagh ended up in the director's seat for the big-screen adaptation of _Thor_, Hiddleston was hand-picked to serve as Thor's brother and nemesis, Loki. It's a part so juicy that Hiddleston will reprise it as the main villain in next year's Marvel mash-up _The Avengers_, but in the meantime, he'll also be seen in Woody Allen's _Midnight in Paris_ and Steven Spielberg's _War Horse_. As Hiddleston told Vulture yesterday, he's excited about his coming year -- even if it's been hell on his eyebrows. **I know he's supposed to be the bad guy, but I'll be honest with you: I kind of understood where Loki was coming from most of the time.** I am _pleased_ to hear you say that. You know, I think that in the mind of every villain is a misunderstood hero, and that was the angle that ... 2 new shots posted. 2 new shots posted. [Windell] over at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has reached out in order to help them identify a mystery piece of electronics equipment they came across a few years ago. Discovered at an electronics surplus store, the mystery component looks like a cross between an over-sized chess board and a breadboard. Failing to identify it they [...] ST. LOUIS, April 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis (CCSCSL) crowned Grandmaster Gata Kamsky, 36, of New York City, the 2011 U.S. Chess Champion. In a repeat of last year's championship, Kamsky once again bested GM Yury Shulman of Chicago in the finals. ptorrone writes "MAKE Magazine is proposing big companies like Cisco and Sony consider 'open sourcing' their failed or discontinued products. The list includes Sony's AIBO and QRIO robots, IBM's Deep Blue chess computer, Ricochet Wireless, Potenco's Pull-Cord Generator, Palm, Microsoft's SPOT Watch, CISCO Flip Camera and more. MAKE is also encouraging everyone to post about what products they'd like to see open sourced." Read more of this story at Slashdot. Chess is a paradox, says writer and filmmaker Caroline Bottaro, director of the new French film "Queen to Play." "Chess is an intellectual game, but it's also a sport. It's something physical," she said. "One of the... 5 new shots posted. 4 new shots posted. ZAMBIA yesterday won the chess and football games and put up a good show in netball and volleyball during the IV Association of Non-Aligned Teachers Union of Southern Africa (ANTUSA) Games held at the Olympic Youth Development Centre in Lusaka at the weekend. Yooungsters Elijah Emonjong and Rajab Kamoga are surprise joint leaders at the East Africa Chess Championship that ends today at Hotel Africana. Max Plati, 8, a second grader at Thomas Jefferson School, says, "Bridge is more fun than chess." The defending men's and women's champions have also made it to the final fours in St. Louis. 5 new shots posted.
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