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Last week we looked at the basic elements of Stayman, which looks for a 4-4 major-suit fit.

Pupils from Edge Grove School, in Aldenham, won a place in the regional finals of the Delancy UK School's Chess Challenge.

Superstar Prince joined a party of nine, including his three bodyguards, for late-night eats at Society Cafe in Steve Wynn 's Encore.

Food and typography enthusiasts will rejoice over these sweet fonts that bring the flavors of typefaces like Helvetica, Bodoni and Futura to life.

Many chess players who discover go seem to leave chess behind, but notable Swedish grandmaster Tiger Hillarp Person , the author of " Tiger's Modern ," finds go to be a nice complement to his enjoyment of chess.

Chuck Dardas is passionate about cars, engineering and Civil War history, and it shows.

But the operators of Maryland's spectacularly successful casino about 15 miles south of Baltimore, Maryland Live, knew where they wanted to put theirs - in a shopping mall parking lot.

At the end of the month, the International Stadiums Poker Tour will be kicking off.

With the World Series of Poker right around the corner and less than two weeks away, all of the big tournaments series around the world are wrapping up their respective seasons.

Russia's Sergey Karjakin has won the 100,000 Norway chess tournament after drawing against Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria.

THE Tasmanian Greens want $1 betting limits enforced as they renew their push for state-based poker machine reform when State Parliament resumes this week.

A South Carolina woman who admitted to gambling on video poker machines and losing money has filed a lawsuit to get her cash back.

The 2013 Spring Championship of Online Poker on PokerStars began on May 12, which means play is well into the each 44-event schedule, which will feature a low, medium and high buy-in variant for each.

Even geniuses make mistakes, and sometimes those mistakes turn out to be genius in their own right, helping to illuminate some underlying mystery or impacting the way an entire field thinks.

In less than two weeks, the 2013 World Series of Poker gets under way, and to celebrate, PKR is offering PokerNews customers an exclusive WSOP Welcome package when they sign up for a new PKR account.

A FORMER Families and Youth Services district manager invented bogus identities of women to falsely claim on grants which she then squandered on poker machines, the District Court has heard.

After paying an $11 million advance to a struggling Atlantic City casino it intended to buy, the parent company of the world's largest online poker website was left with nothing for its troubles Friday when a judge ruled the casino had the right to scrap the deal.

Five people playing poker in a garage in the 2700 block of Oakwood Court were robbed shortly after midnight today by three men all armed with handguns, police reported.

After having a jeans day for the teachers to raise money for pediatric cancer patients, Krista Chapman and Amanda Vacchio, 6th grade math teachers at Kumpf Middle School, felt that their students should get involved in a service project as well.

It is held annually in the Norwegian capital. Jay Nordlinger's journal began yesterday, here .