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My Metropolitan Diary

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 10.01.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Diapers, Metropolitan Diary, The Strand, Chess, Ginkgo-Biloba, Summer, Soda, Playground, New York Times, Trash, Union Square, Buses, Cheeseburgers, People Who Are Stupid, Tea Party, Comedy News
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen

Dear Diary: Today I threw an empty soda bottle into a trashcan, and a rat jumped out at my face.

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Kasparov, Karpov Chess Match: Rematch Taking Place In Spain

AP | DANIEL WOOLLS | Posted 09.22.2009 | World

Read More: Sports, Chess, Anatoly Karpov, Kasparov Karpov Rematch, Kasparov Karpov, Garry Kasparov, World News

MADRID — Chess eminences Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov are dusting off their knights and pawns for an exhibition rematch marking the 25th an...

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Refugee Chess

Freddy Deknatel | Posted 05.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Iraqi Refugees, Iraq Surge, Damascus, Chess, Wunderkammer Magazine, Iraqi Refugee Crisis, Iraq War, Iraqi Food, War Refugees, Refugee-Camps, Baghdad, Iraq War Refugees, Iraq, Syria, Refugees, Iraqi Refugees in Syria, Living News
Freddy Deknatel

In Baghdad, their eldest daughter had two cars. Six years later, the Iraqi couple moves their mattresses out of the bedroom each night to sleep on the living room floor.

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Searching for Bobby Fischer... and Bobby Neugeboren

Jay Neugeboren | Posted 02.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Erasmus Hall High School, Anniversary of Bobby Fischer's Death, Mental Hospital, Chess, Queens, Mental Patient, Brooklyn, January 17, Yugoslavia, Growing Pu in Brooklyn, Bobby Fischer, Iceland, Growing Up in New York, Bobby Neugeboren, 2008, Barbara Streisand, Coping With Mental Illness, Schizophrenia, National Junior Chess Championship, Memory, Personal Story, Brothers, Chess Club, Living News
Jay Neugeboren

The parallels in the lives of my brother and Fischer are often as remarkable as they are sad, and I've tried here to tell part of the story:

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