This is just my simplistic view but looking at different countries and the effect of chess politics we can see how detrimental it’s effect can be to a nation’s effort in chess development.

China
Almost no politics and their country policy on chess developement is clear. There are today one of the chess giants of the world.

USA
As can

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PALM BEACH, Fla. – Hillary Clinton will be the likely winner in the 2008 race for the White House, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is predicting.

"If the Republicans don't get their act together, Hillary's going to be the next president," DeLay said in an exclusive interview with WND.

DeLay, a long-time leader in the Republ

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That I wouldn’t want. Ginnfer Flowers, the woman who threw a wrench in to Bill’s 1992 Campaign by admitting to having an affair with Clinton said she would most likely vote for Hillary. Granted, she hasn’t made up her mind yet, but from the CNN story it looks like the only reason she’d be voting for Clinton is because she’s a woman. If thats

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The rapidly changing political landscape has introduced us to the live version of a new phenomenon. Although Hollywood-types have often backed political candidates and causes, the world has been holding their breath in anticipation of the impact of Oprah's endorsement of Barack Obama.

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Benazir Bhutto, the late former prime minister of Pakistan was buried today in her home town of Sindh near her father’s grave Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

Tens of thousands of people attended the funeral including Late Benazir Bhutto’s husband Asif Ali Zardari and Benazir’s son.Her body was carried in a white ambulance for burial ceremony.Presiden

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DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Democrat Hillary Clinton holds a narrow lead in Iowa four days before the state opens the presidential nominating race, while Republicans Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney are virtually tied, according to a Reuters/C-Span/Zogby poll released on Sunday.
Clinton, a New York senator, led Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois 31

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Switzerland said today it had closed an investigation into Benazir Bhutto for alleged money laundering, but a parallel probe into her husband’s activities will continue.

A three-year investigation into allegations that Ms Bhutto used Swiss banks to launder millions of dollars in kickbacks has been closed, her lawyer Alec Reymond said.

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Google is trying hard to make available the world’s information quickly and easily for anyone. Google has announced today the importance of Google services that will allow you to know the results quicker than the boring paper media. In fact, Google is not just satisfied with fast Iowa Caucus results, they want to deliver the results to you re

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The internet is the greatest forum for critical discussion in the history of civilization– it has unleashed the marketplace of ideas…. This is important to understand, because, as Hans-Hermann Hoppe wrote: “ultimately, the course of history is determined by ideas.” One of the effects of the internet is that ideas or theories that have a high

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Mike Huckabee believes God gave him wisdom. Evidentially God didn't give Mike the wisdom to keep his mouth shut. Mike's propensity to tell everyone he talks to God is going to keep him from winning in the election. It seems people don't really like hearing that the man with his finger on the nuclear trigger chats with the Almighty durin

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On the Democratic side, John Edwards, although never the front-runner, has been driving his party’s policy agenda. He’s done it again on economic stimulus: last month, before the economic consensus turned as negative as it now has, he proposed a stimulus package including aid to unemployed workers, aid to cash-strapped state and local governm

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Cheap goods from countries like China have an expensive price. Right now we are paying that price through our loss of jobs and the increasing safety risks of imported goods.

But, who really should pay that price? If US corporations are experiencing increasing profits, is it right for us to pay the price for their profits?

Who should pay

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John McCain has recently been the subject of a number of criticisms by conservative radio talk show hosts. The worst of the criticism has characterized him as a "moderate liberal Republican"--in a party that defines itself as conservative. And yet McCain's positions on most issues fall well within the realm of conservatism in days gone b

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Iraqis prepared this week for snowfall. Yes, that’s right, snowfall. This would be the first time in around 100 years that Mesopotamia experienced ice falling from the sky. It is a good thing that Al Gore changed “Global Warming” to “Climate Change” too, otherwise this would be embarrassing.

When is the world going to learn that Al Gore, t

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Shoot Down, the documentary on the 1996 shootdown of two unarmed Brothers to the Rescue Cessnas by Castro’s supersonic MiG fighter jets (which we blogged about back in August), premieres today to a limited, invitation-only audience in Miami. I couldn’t make it–I aggravated an already bad leg injury which I’m currently nursing at home (not to

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