Media Stories

Daaim ShabazzJune 10, 2008
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Time waits for No One

Armenia takes on Russia with Levon Aronian, Vladimir Akopian, Karen Asrian and Gabriel Sargissian. Vladimir Kramnik of Russia gets set for a battle. Alexander Morozevich is at the far end. Asrian, 28, died yesterday. Photo by Daaim Shabazz. Today I heard of the death of Armenian Grandmaster Karen Asrian who…
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Daaim ShabazzMay 20, 2008
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Angelo Young’s Touch Move Center a hit!

IM Angelo Young is one of the strong Filipino Masters who have made an impact on the chess landscape of America. Many may know of Young’s prowess in blitz, but others now know Young as a successful proprietor of the Touch Move Chess Center located on North Ashland in Chicago.…
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Daaim ShabazzMay 18, 2008
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René Phillips “Chess Gym” video series!

Chess photojournalist Frank Johnson has launched a new blog at chess-coach.net and posted an encouraging message on chess coach and Katrina Hurricane survivor René Phillips. A few years ago Phillips, was hit by a devastating tragedy that would change his life forever. Fernwood Jones making presentation to René Phillips. This…
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Daaim ShabazzMay 13, 2008
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BeSomeone student Robert Curry rises!

CONTACT INFORMATION Janice Davis Be Someone, Inc. Lithonia, Georgia info@besomeone.org www.BeSomeone.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 12, 2008 TROUBLED YOUTH RISES FROM DESPERATION TO ACCOLADES (ATLANTA) – Robert Curry, a student at Georgia Perimeter College and participant in Orrin Hudson’s Be Someone program, will be featured on The Early Show on…
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Daaim ShabazzMay 2, 2008
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Chess players… Tekken is coming!

This is chess-related… sort of. Years ago, I wrote an essay titled, “The Beauty of Capoeira and Chess.” It is about the similarity between chess and the Afro-Brazilian martial art capoeira. Capoeira was used by the African slaves (mostly from Angola) to fight against the Portuguese colonizers and lead to…
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Daaim ShabazzApril 16, 2008
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RZA launches wuchess.com!!

Capitalizing on the momentum from the hip-hop chess movement, RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan has launched wuchess.com. One has to credit Adisa Banjoko and Leo Librian for there pioneering concept of hip-hop chess. Although there were others who tried mixing the two genres, the Hip-Hop Chess Federation clearly gave the…
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Daaim ShabazzApril 16, 2008
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Vantage Point: Chess and Assassination Plots

Assassination plots have always held intrigue in America, a nation having lost four Presidents to assassins’ bullets. The most widely-studied is the assassination of John F. Kennedy. This assassination had many different vantage points, but the conspiracy evolves around whether Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin or whether it…
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Daaim ShabazzApril 1, 2008
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Kasparov playing Shogi (??)!

Garry Kasparov playing Eiichiro Ishiyama, a 3-dan player. Interesting story on ChessBase! Former World Champion Garry Kasparov is reported to have played shogi (??)with a Japanese master. Shogi is very much like chess in that many of pieces are the same. The difference is that the tiles are invertible so…
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Daaim ShabazzMarch 24, 2008
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Uganda launches new website!

Great news from the newly-launched Ugandan website… The East African Championship occurred this weekend in Uganda and teams from Kenya and Somalia joined in the action. Final reports are forthcoming. The Ugandan Chess federation received a two million shilling sponsorship from Fountain Publishers for this tournament and other initiatives.
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Daaim ShabazzMarch 16, 2008
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New Book, “Chess Rumble”

by Greg Neri, art by Jesse Joshua Watson Lee & Low Books, Inc, 2007 ISBN: 1584302798 hardcover, 64 pages A new book out by Greg Neri takes an imaginative look at the life of Marcus an 11-year old who faces life’s troublesome puzzles. He finds solace in chess and has…
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