The Saturday Guardian (UK) had an chess article in the edition of November 20th. It can be read online, http://tinyurl.com/6n69a
it begins: Madonna's influence has helped the game become cool
"Chess is the game which reflects most honour on human wit" - Voltaire.
Chess has had an image problem. It conjures up thoughts of bespectacled men in anoraks hunched over boards in the upstairs rooms of grotty pubs, or spotty, gangly schoolboys who can't get a girlfriend and make do with the Sicilian Defence (Winawer variation)*. "
*correction made for the last phrase
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