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Chessbase picks up Schwarzenegger article -- mentions and links to Free Republic
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| jan. 11, 2004
| Chessbase.com
Posted on 01/11/2004 4:38:58 PM PST by FairOpinion
Schwarzenegger – playing chess with the budget 11.01.2004 "An opening move in the fiscal chess game" – that is how one journalist is describing Governer Arnold Schwarzenegger's recently announced budget plans for California's ailing economy. The analogy to chess is not accidental – the action star is known to be a chess enthusiast.
The above article is quoted in full on the Free Republic forum, a web portal that describes itself as an "online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web. We're working to roll back decades of governmental largesse, to root out political fraud and corruption, and to champion causes which further conservatism in America. And we always have fun doing it. Hoo-yah!"
Hoo-yah indeed! In the forum discussion of the Walters article we see hotlinks to pictures from the ChessBase news pages. This is understandable, since a Google search for "Schwarzenegger – chess" which brings two ChessBase pictorials to the top.
(Excerpt) Read more at chessbase.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: chess; chessbase; freerepublic; schwarzenegger; stoptheexcerpts
To: Jim Robinson
Free Republic recognition ping.
To: All
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posted on
01/11/2004 4:40:56 PM PST
by
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To: FairOpinion
Expect a lot of news mentions of FR in the coming weeks and months. Free Republic is aledgedly involved in a huge scandal. George Bush, the GOP, Fresno City Hall, and now the Gubinator are secretly funnelling money to the powerhouse conservative Republican organization, Free Republic, so we can use our mighty FReeper power to steamroll over the Democrats in November. I read it on the Internet. Gotta be true. Huge scandal breaking hard! Developing....
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posted on
01/11/2004 4:46:59 PM PST
by
Jim Robinson
(I don't belong to no organized political party. I'm a Republycan.)
To: Jim Robinson
LOL!!!
This Chessbase is a positive mention -- we can always use that. :)
To: Jim Robinson
Please excuse the typos. LOL. We don't need no steenking spell checkers.
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posted on
01/11/2004 4:49:29 PM PST
by
Jim Robinson
(I don't belong to no organized political party. I'm a Republycan.)
To: Jim Robinson
Be careful - if you post to yourself too often, you could go blind... ;)
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posted on
01/11/2004 4:53:30 PM PST
by
Keith in Iowa
(The only good news for Democrats is they could save $$ by switching to Geico.)
To: Jim Robinson
Do you have enough coffee cups to give the Mayor, the Gov, and the Prez and everyone else, when they all become monthly donors?
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posted on
01/11/2004 4:55:25 PM PST
by
Drango
(NPR is the tax funded propaganda wing of the DNC.)
To: FairOpinion
At first glance, I thought the title read Cheesebase not Chessbase.. I', bad.. Salute FRom a Pale Ale :-]
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posted on
01/11/2004 4:57:54 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi Mac ....... Become a Monthly at FR....... https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: Drango
Nope. Guess we'll have to do a little more bribing, er, I mean bartering with the Chinese and see if they'll build another Mug factory. Orders are going through the roof! And it's raining here.
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posted on
01/11/2004 5:07:53 PM PST
by
Jim Robinson
(I don't belong to no organized political party. I'm a Republycan.)
To: FairOpinion; Jim Robinson
Say... how about challenging DU to a chess tournament?
To: explodingspleen
DU would only play if we could come up with a gender balanced/neutral board, and referred to the pieces as other than light/dark/black/white.
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posted on
01/11/2004 5:34:45 PM PST
by
stylin_geek
(Koffi: 0, G.W. Bush: (I lost count))
To: explodingspleen
Seems like it would be way too easy to cheat in online chess.
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posted on
01/11/2004 6:54:20 PM PST
by
ambrose
To: ambrose
It is - that's why I don't play online with anyone but friends any more...
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posted on
01/11/2004 6:55:31 PM PST
by
general_re
("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
To: ambrose
Seems like it would be way too easy to cheat in online chess.True, but *we* certainly wouldn't cheat, and I think we probably have the ability to field the caliber of players that would not be beaten by computers.
At any event, we could play closed games and make a point of keeping all the pawns on the board to make things as difficult as possible for cheaters.
Just a thought. . .
To: Jim Robinson
Huge scandal breaking hard! Are you new here? It's spelled "hugh".
Damn newbies . . .
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posted on
01/11/2004 8:35:51 PM PST
by
JohnnyZ
(I pity the fool who thinks Bush's proposal is the same as amnesty!)
To: Jim Robinson
Jim Robinson said: "George Bush, the GOP, Fresno City Hall, and now the Gubinator are secretly funnelling money to the powerhouse conservative Republican organization, Free Republic, so we can use our mighty FReeper power to steamroll over the Democrats in November."
I received a coffee mug but the check must have gotten lost in the mail. Please send another. I need to buy fuel for my steamroller. Thanks.
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