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Table tennis masters to hold exhibition at DZ

...Table Tennis Center in New York.If crosswords and table tennis seem to be an unlikely pair, Shortz argues it's much like "chess on speed.""Table tennis is a brain game in two ways. It's such a quick game you have to train your body to react unconsciously...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2013-06-04/table-tennis-masters-hold-exhibition-dz
Local
Keep ACES, and look behind the scenes at political chess game

...it in the dirty national big leagues? Were we too caught up with the sensational celebrity of it all to see the real, quiet chess move that was talking place right under our noses? One never knows what goes on in the back rooms of the powerful; but one...

http://juneauempire.com/letters/2013-04-12/keep-aces-and-look-behind-scenes-poli
Letters
A Trip South: A seriously fun time

...the river, as with every night, we played a game of lightning on the basketball court, followed by an evening of pool and chess. On our last day at the rancho, we went to work up on the mountain with intentions to clear some trails. We ended up just...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2013-03-29/trip-south-seriously-fun-time
Outdoors
Ray Lewis has grown but never escaped his past

...sounds silly, it should not. When you face the quarterbacks like Peyton Manning and Tom Brady, Lewis says, it is a great chess match. And as innate as Lewis is as a search-and-destroy tackler, few prepare and plot the defensive game like No. 52...

http://juneauempire.com/sports/2013-01-20/ray-lewis-has-grown-never-escaped-his-
Sports
Chess grandmaster offers demonstration

Chess grandmaster Susan Polgar, the No. 1 ranked...player in the United States, will lead a free chess demonstration and discussion from 5-6...issues at Polgar, the guest of the Juneau Chess Club, is passing through town as part of...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/082106/loc_20060821015.shtml
News
Hoonah boy proves prowess as chess champ

Les Dalton went from playing chess at the Hoonah Teen Center to an international...Nev., where the 100th U.S. Open Chess Championship was held. He'd just finished...those at the highest level of competitive chess. Dalton didn't play any of the grandmasters...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/082499/Loc_chess.html
Local
Region V Baseball Tournament a pitching chess match

...at 6 p.m. today. But on the other hand, you have to win the first game just to get to that game. And that's where the chess match begins. "It really becomes a test of your pitching staff," McCauley said. "You have to figure out the best way to...

http://juneauempire.com/sports/2011-05-25/region-v-baseball-tournament-pitching-
Sports | JDHS | TMHS
Region swim meet like a chess match

This is the part of the high school swimming and diving season that has more in common with a chess match than any other sporting event. While the Region V championships will still be decided in the water Friday and Saturday at...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/110499/Spo_swimming.html
Sports
Alaska editorial: Making sense of gas pipeline chess game

...credibility to the whole affair. Alaska gas a chess game If you look deeper at what's going...development throughout Alaska as a huge chess game, Monday's announcement begins to...talking about Monday. But in the bigger chess game, the players in this deal are creating...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/071008/opi_302326986.shtml
Juneau Empire Online Archive Community: Miyasato-Koenig wins Jr. Chess tourney title 5/6/98

...6, 1998 Miyasato-Koenig wins Jr. Chess tourney title Last modified at 2...mate,'' and claimed the 1998 Juneau Jr. Chess Championship title. The elementary-school...shook her head. The weekend Juneau Jr. Chess Championships for 1998 were held at...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/050698/chess.html

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