Match of the Century: Fischer vs Spassky Game 20
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Match of the Century: Fischer vs Spassky Game 20
06 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
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The Greatest Queen Sacrifice in Chess History
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Bobby Fischer’s 21-move brilliancy
27 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
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The Greatest Queen Sacrifice in Chess History
15 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
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Chess Openings: Traxler Counter Attack
03 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
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Crashing counter attack against Fried Liver Attack
27 Feb 2018 Leave a comment
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The Bishop’s Opening is back: Urusov Gambit
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Chess Openings: Fried Liver Attack
26 Feb 2018 Leave a comment
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Game of the Century – Bobby Fischer vs Donald Byrne
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But why would girls want to sit in a corner playing chess?
20 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice Tags: chess, economics of personality traits, lost boys, reversing gender gap
For a logical thinker, chess grandmaster Nigel Short missed the obvious move. Teenage girls have better things to do with their talents and in particular their superior reading skills than gaze over a chess board.
The 30 point advantage that 15-year-old girls have in reading scores in the PISA test – see the chart below – is equal to an extra six months schooling. Six months extra schooling explains many a gender and ethnic wage gap.
Having being a member of a few chess clubs, and run chess clubs and large chess tournaments, there are an unusual number of oddballs, eccentrics and mentally ill people who play chess.
The systematic evidence of a greater incidence of learning disorders, Asperger’s syndrome as well is bipolar disorders among teenage boys all encourage teenage boys to focus on chess if only to give an outlet to their obsessive behaviours.
It is for the same reason that socially awkward teenage boys may be attracted to computer programming if they have various obsessional disorders.
Who-d a-Thunk It? The new OECD Report on 15-Year Olds in 60+ Countries Finds Significant Gender Differences? http://t.co/X2rGVygPwF—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) March 11, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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