Washington. The White House refused to comment on reports that Trump is set to nominate deceased chess genius Bobby Fischer to the Supreme Court. Trump apparently doesn’t feel there is any difficulty presented in nominating Fischer, who died in 2008...
In one of the longest-running games of political chess ever, US President Donald Trump has 'bowed to the inevitable', 'knocked over his king', and conceded defeat to the far more resilient Democratic Party. Trump and the Democrats had been engaged...
It was great year for our beloved chess team for, on the 13th of June, the four of us set off to London for the UK Schools' Chess quarter-finals. We were in high spirits as we waved goodbye to Miss Smith and boarded the plane, remembering to strap on our flak-jackets and seat-belts, for we were certain that this year, at long last, Methodist College Belfast would take home the colours. However...
David Jonber set a new world record for playing 600 games of chess simultaneously. He also broke the record for most games lost in a single day, all 600. "Wow" Jonber was quoted as saying, "What a thrill. This is especially exciting as I have o...
Absolutely unrenowned Spoof patheticist, Skoob1999 tonight, on the anniversary of the birth of baby Jesus, finally came clean, and admitted to the world, that he isn't the Mister Nice Guy person as popularly perceived, an image which he loves to proj...
Anyone who thinks chess fans are educated geeks in tweed suits who sit cross-legged with their arms folded whilst a match is going on, is sadly mistaken it seems, after the latest in a spate of violent incidents left a chessboard overturned. Suppo...
After the fiasco about banning Medal of Honour on the ground that it encourages players to kill British soldiers (even though there are apparently no British soldiers in the game), the government now wants people to stop playing chess! The governm...
The remains of the US-born chess champion Bobby Fischer have been exhumed in Iceland to assist with the decision regarding a particularly tricky move in a game being staged in Reykjavik. Fischer, who was 118 years old when he died unexpectedly in...
Charles Bradley, president of a West Texas school's chess team collapsed and died in a competition against rival school. While official autopsy results are still pending, preliminary findings show that the player died due to a heart attack (which wa...
It has just been announced that Spoof writer Skoob1999 has been admitted to the Priority Clinic in north London following a humiliating chess defeat by fellow Spoof writer Monkey Woods, which was witnessed by 39 million on line viewers. Skoob1999...
Portmeirion Wales -- Pawns began a strike on millions of chessboards around the world today. The lowly pawns are tired of being used and abused and want some respect from chess players and they also demand equal rights. Pawns want the right to move...
Pairs of prawns can co-operate to solve problems, scientists report.
Rijk aan Zee - Tempers frayed at the beginning of the 8th round of the Corus Chess championships here at Wijk an See, as the British contender Short appealed to the arbiter for a win against the reigning champion Fischer, who refused...
Russian Grandmaster and former World Chess Champion and all round nice guy, Garry Kasparov has tested positive for steroids. Kasparov has been doing some serious training since he challenged Vladimir Putin to a chess duel for the Premiership of Russi...
(Renton, WA) Since its release in 1994, the trading card game Magic: The Gathering has been a huge success, even spawning an online version in 2002. Several other similar games such as Pokemon have shown lesser success.
Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov was one of 170 people arrested in an anti-Kremlin rally in Moscow at the weekend.
Following in the path of their chess playing, Kasparov-beating "Deep Blue", computer giants IBM have gone out again and astounded the game world. In creating a "super-computer" devised to win every time at Noughts and Crosses (th...
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