They joined Jewish scout troops, competed in Jewish football leagues and chess tournaments.
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He had many friends and vivid passions: for music, sailing and chess, for ancient Greek and Greece, for composing Latin verse and raising orchids.
In the country, on terra firma, a doctor of good family could play cards and chess with well-born friends, and supervise his gardens and the collection of rents from his tenant farmers, all the while staying clear of the infections summer brought to Venice.
Fill up on organic blueberries and heirloom tomatoes at the Union Square Greenmarket, then wander past the students and chess-players in Washington Square Park to linger over cappuccino in an old-fashioned Italian pavement cafe on Bleecker Street, or cool off Middle-Eastern style with hummus, mint-studded lemonade and chilled salads at Hummus Place (88 MacDougall St).
Coffee houses were a new institution in which men met together to talk, listen to poets and play games like chess and backgammon.
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Researchers at Rush Medical University found that mentally challenging activities, such as reading and playing chess, may have a protective effect on the brain and help lower risk of dementia associated with Alzheimer's disease.
The result is a rich, big-hearted book, splashed with inside tales of billionaire striving and homeless chess wizards.
His great passion was puzzles, beginning with crosswords at the age of six and graduating to the most complex chess and bridge problems.
It may be great to be a woman and play chess in Hungary, or even China, but American women have yet to get the bug.
Garry Kasparov, former World Chess Champion and possibly the greatest chess player of all time, thinks the U.S. has become complacent when it comes to innovation.
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And people, my neighbors, are always surprised because I live on the second floor apartment, and there are usually 40 pairs of shoes in front of my gate, and people play cards inside and play chess.
He wants to live forever, have the option to escape to outer space or an oceanic city-state, and play chess against a robot that can discuss Tolkien, because these were the fantasies that filled his childhood imagination.
Both Thiel and Steigman were chess prodigies as kids, and remain among the top-ranked U.S. players.
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To rebrand poker, Alson and his colleagues are emphasizing the similarities between poker and other so-called mindsports like chess and bridge, which teach and reward strategic thinking.
Langerman and his 'little brother' play Chinese chess and his host mother sees him as her second son.
In America, a similar study suggested chess improved children's reading and writing skills, and led to chess being placed on the curriculum in New Jersey.
In 1997, many lovers of the game, myself included, were convinced that if the computer were to win, the great romance, mystery and living metaphor of chess would disappear and people would stop caring about the game.
Filatov has previously merged his love of chess and art by sponsoring this year's World Chess Championship Match at Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery.
Along the route will be entertainment and events from Indonesian gamelan players to art and architecture walks, dodge ball, life-size chess and street foods.
"It's a long way to go, and is like a combination of playing three-dimensional chess and bridge and trying to run a NASA space programme, all at the same time, " he added.
Seeing entries for Monopoly, Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit (three Parker Brothers' board games), I was immediately struck by the absence of chess and backgammon.
Let me begin by revealing a personal secret: Between 1983 and 1994, I made a reputation writing books (including Searching for Bobby Fischer) and national magazine pieces about chess--indeed, I became lost in chess, blissfully addicted to writing about the personalities and intricacies of the royal game, much as many men become chess addicts.
Players of poker, and of course chess, had been using game theory without calling it that.
Just use it as an opportunity to play your best chess and see how you match up.
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But the chess and bridge establishments do not want money just to help train the most promising players.
It was old people playing chess and waiting to see God, and it was also the deadliest city in the country.
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