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  • Daaim ShabazzJune 23, 2007
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    The Chess Drum releases new blog!

    The Chess Drum has finally released the long-awaited chess blog to complement the 5900-page website. The blog will provide briefs to main stories, video footage, games (and analysis), chess theory, tournament announcements, and live coverage from tournaments. There are hundreds of chess blogs dotting the Internet landscape and The Chess…

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  • Daaim ShabazzMay 15, 2007
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    2007 U.S. Chess Championship (Stillwater, Oklahoma)

    After a bit of rankling with the organization of the U.S. Championship, the 2007 version will kick off today in Stillwater, Oklahoma with a trimmed 36-player field. This is yet another format from the previous formats which feature both separate and combined fields of up to 64 players. The America…

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  • Daaim ShabazzApril 3, 2007
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    Playing to the Beat of a Different Drummer

    Back in November, Gregory Kearse approached Daaim Shabazz of The Chess Drum about a possible story. He contacted the United States Chess Federation to propose the idea. Daniel Lucas, the Editor of the newly-revamped Chess Life agreed. Lucas had been a admirer of the website and has stated a previous…

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  • Daaim ShabazzAugust 18, 2006
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    2006 Pan-Am Games (Cuenca, Ecuador)

    The site champions the success of Black chess players, or those of African ancestry... includes interviews, playble chess games, puzzles, essays, and current chess news from around the world.

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  • Daaim ShabazzAugust 14, 2006
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    Angola’s Rocha win 3rd straight title!

    The site champions the success of Black chess players, or those of African ancestry... includes interviews, playble chess games, puzzles, essays, and current chess news from around the world.

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  • Daaim ShabazzJanuary 1, 2006
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    Flashback on Maurice Ashley

    Almost seven years ago, Maurice Ashley realized his dream of becoming an International Grandmaster. The scene was the Manhattan Chess Club and Ashley was having a strong tournament and had beaten Giorgi Kacheishvili and Jonathan Ady and Adrian Negulescu in consecutive rounds to clinch the norm. In an interview with…

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  • Daaim ShabazzOctober 15, 2005
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    Hurricane Katrina: A Black Chess Player’s Story

    Hurricane Katrina: A Black Chess Player’s Story by Glenn Bady Hurricane Katrina slammed ashore New Orleans producing 110 + Kt winds, flooding 15-20 feet above normal. August 30, 2005 levees “broke” in New Orleans and water pours in covering 80% city and raising 20 feet in some areas. Fortunately, during…

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  • Daaim ShabazzJuly 1, 2005
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    The Beauty of Capoeira and Chess

    The first I remember seeing the art of capoeira was as a Ph.D. student at Clark Atlanta University when some of the avowed Afrocentric students were “playing” on the yard. I had heard of this deadly art, but here were students moving rhythmically to the beat of the drum (atabaque)…

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  • Daaim ShabazzJanuary 27, 2005
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    White Supremacists discuss Black Chess

    Part of my efforts in gathering information for The Chess Drum entails browsing the expanse of the Internet using search tools. Typically, I punch in words, combinations of words and full phrases to sift through the billions of pages and often cross some very interesting information. I often Google “www.thechessdrum.net”…

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  • Daaim ShabazzDecember 9, 2004
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    Why Nakamura’s Victory is Good for Chess

    The site champions the success of Black chess players, or those of African ancestry... includes interviews, playble chess games, puzzles, essays, and current chess news from around the world.

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