<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6865647558716040719</id><updated>2011-04-21T11:00:38.115-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Chess Asia</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chessasia.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6865647558716040719/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chessasia.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Chess Asia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11534185521659929350</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>3</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6865647558716040719.post-3095747540539968830</id><published>2007-06-20T14:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-20T14:14:56.134-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Chess Is Life</title><summary type='text'>(From Chess Asia, Vol. 14 No. 4)The quest for excellence and supremacy is the alpha and omega of that uncertainty-ridden urgency that is life. It is a quest for the absolute, for God, if you will, a genesis that seeks to establish its own necessity by an act of freedom that is at once strife-torn and creative. It is also a quest for meaning, a journey to a decisive consummation that would make </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6865647558716040719/posts/default/3095747540539968830'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6865647558716040719/posts/default/3095747540539968830'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chessasia.blogspot.com/2007/06/chess-is-life.html' title='Chess Is Life'/><author><name>Chess Asia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11534185521659929350</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6865647558716040719.post-3966427480270369766</id><published>2007-06-05T03:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-19T23:04:44.387-07:00</updated><title type='text'>CHESSISM</title><summary type='text'>Obsession. Affliction. Addiction. Infection.The adjectives list dynamically moves in perpetuity. Like the ramifying branches on a healthy tree, it naturally grows within the chess enthusiasts’ psyche. An all-consuming, steadily evolving, matter inherent upon its dawning, that claims a virtual birthright in the chessplayer. There are no scarce manifestations in the observation. Two crouched </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6865647558716040719/posts/default/3966427480270369766'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6865647558716040719/posts/default/3966427480270369766'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chessasia.blogspot.com/2007/06/chessism.html' title='CHESSISM'/><author><name>Chess Asia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11534185521659929350</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6865647558716040719.post-2009686498400091907</id><published>2007-06-04T18:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-19T23:05:46.357-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Rhapsody of Chess</title><summary type='text'>Chess is the magic life of symbols. Dynamic, turbulent, vital and inexhaustible, it is a storm of intensities that incarnates itself in a process or language that is not one of words, music, dance, gymnastics, or architecture, and yet is all of these in an allegorical manner composed of a certain movement with a complex structural genesis and meaning. How could the initiate not "vibrate" to the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6865647558716040719/posts/default/2009686498400091907'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6865647558716040719/posts/default/2009686498400091907'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chessasia.blogspot.com/2007/06/rhapsody-of-chess.html' title='The Rhapsody of Chess'/><author><name>Chess Asia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11534185521659929350</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry></feed>
