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Bee Stung

Photo by Mark Bowen / Scripps National Spelling Bee I don’t often wake up in a sweat from reliving the eighth grade. There’s me, four-eyed, cowlicked and draped in an over-sized I.O.U. sweatshirt, facing the peercing gaze of a few hundred middle-schoolers and teachers, and waiting for the squad of judges to fire their next [...]

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The Danish Gambit or
How I Broke a Blood Vessel in My Brain

And while nothing replaces the physical game, the feeling of picking up a pawn, and the palpable concentration of opponents engaged in battle, Chess With Friends offers a rewarding and worthwhile outlet for chess addictions.

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