Chess is fascinating game. The pieces always look super neat, playing chess is difficult, and winning at chess is even more difficult than playing the game itself. Read more »
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What a chess game would sound like if played on the piano
Full disclosure: While loving chess, I am horrible at it. Whether its playing against another individual or against a computer, I lose and lose soundly. Read more »
Wins and Fails This Week in Geek v 16
Hot geek threesomes (who’da thunk it?), French kiss (leave Meg Ryan out of this), Microsoft oopsies (not that a Microsoft mistake is newsworthy), Verizon being daft (when are they not?) and Amazon on the warpath (Amazon vs. Netflix will be more interesting than the entire catalog of either company’s on demand video). It’s a steamy week in geek, so let’s get to the good stuff. WIN: Chess, Algebra and Music It’s a triple threat this week! Jonathan W. Stokes, blogger and man clearly gifted with superior intelligence and entirely too much time on his hands, used algebra to turn famous chess games into piano music, which he then turned into Read more »
Get fat on strategy with chocolate chess
I wonder how many more kids would have come to chess club at school if they’d been able to eat the pieces at the end of the game? Actually, scratch that — they’d probably just eat the pieces mid-game. Here are some chocolate chess pieces which come in a tube that transforms into the board itself. Apparently inspired by folklore, when a Croatian and Italian king play chess with prizes of islands off the Croatian coast, this is a set you can only play one game with before having to buy another one. Best not to play it at the height of summer either. Read more »
