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Team-O Exposed!!! Antarctic Chess League Foiled!

antartctic chess league

Michael Truth talks about this amazing moment captured on video –

“The Federation of Oxymoronic Sports has resurfaced and this video proves it! Watch these top secret chess players scramble in deep snow to their getaway – as I get everything on tape!!! Everything – except their faces or any other identifiable evidence. “

Team-O Website.

March 30, 2008 Posted by n8ux | Chess, Education, History, Humor, Interview, Media, Video | | 1 Comment

Inside The Alfonso X Manuscript.

About the video:

A video showing the insides of the Alfonso X manuscript facsimile. Only several pages are viewed as the total pages in the manuscript amounts to 98 pages.

In 1283 Libros del Axedrez dados y tablas (Book of Chess and other games) was written for King Alfonso X (1221-1284), King of Castile. It was the first encyclopedia of games in European literature. The first of the 7 parts of the Alfonso manuscript is devoted wholly to chess, and contains 103 problems. It also includes descriptions of several chess variants. (Source: Bill Wall) .

Youtube video from Xposthmous.

March 13, 2008 Posted by n8ux | Art, Chess, Education, History, Video, Writing | | No Comments Yet