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Best of the Blogs: Using recent news to outsmart your opponents

By Brendan Roberts
ESPN.com

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

I like chess, but I consider myself an average player. I grew up playing it against my brothers, my grandma and amateur classmates, and I'd win almost all the time. Frankly, I thought I was pretty good, until I got to college. Within minutes of my first game against someone on campus, I was humbled. You see, I tried my patented early move, putting the bishop into attack position on the edge, and my friendly opponent gave me a "I know what you're trying to do you sure you really wanna do ...

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