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IM Jesse Kraai won his game with GM Nikola Mitkov in 56 moves, which made Kraai a member of the 5-point club. Also with 5 were Ibragimov, Becerra, and Khachiyan. FRENCH DEFENSE [C16| VV: GM Nikola Mitkov (2540) B: IM Jesse Kraai ...
Counterplay: An Anthropologist at the Chessboard

Counterplay: An Anthropologist at the Chessboard

Prof. Robert R. Desjarlais

Jesse Kraai quoted in an interview with Jennifer Shahade, “IM Jesse Kraai Joins the Elite,” Chess Life (July 2007): 25. 29. Rusudan Goletiani, notes on a 2005 U.S. Women's Chess Championship game, New in Chess (2005, no. 1): 28. 30.
Lisa: A Chess Novel

Lisa: A Chess Novel

Jesse Kraai

They knew what they wanted too. It wasn't like school, where kids pretended they were masters of the teachers' game. The adults didn't know anything anyway. The real world was a big push to nothing. But Lisa escaped from all that.
Formation Attacks

Formation Attacks

Joel Johnson

Please take notice on how White is very careful to not allow the Black King to run away to his shelter on the queenside, an extremely important consideration when King Hunting. (W) David Pruess (2422) (B) Jesse Kraai (2502) [C14] Berkeley ...
Bird's Opening: Move by Move

Bird's Opening: Move by Move

Cyrus Lakdawala

Vaibhav, New Delhi 2012. My experience with Reversed Stonewall formations mostly arises from the Colle, rather than from 1 f4. For example, my buddy, GM Jesse Kraai mockingly named 1 Nf3 c5 2 c3 the “Lakdawala Accelerated”. I know he ...
The Slav: Move by Move

The Slav: Move by Move

Cyrus Lakdawala

Bareev World Open, Philadelphia 2009 My friend, GM Jesse Kraai once played on the board next to me at the Far West Open in Reno. Playing against GM Nick de Firmian, I opened with 1 Nf3 c5 2 c3! which prepares 3 d4! The Slavhating de  ...
Focus on Hocus Pocus

Focus on Hocus Pocus

Erwin Brecher

Jesse Kraai, Budapest 2003. Black is a knight and two pawns ahead, yet White ( to play) found a subtle move against which there is no defence. As a clue, it's g7 and h7 which are Black's weak points. fgh Bridge 46 solution A AJ983 9 A64 0 Q5 ...
Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the ...

Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the ...

Tyler Cowen

October 4, 2010, doi: 10.1177/1948550610385872. On Jesse Kraai, see Scott Kraft, “Chess Players Making Right Moves at Younger Ages,” the Los Angeles Times, May 10, 2011. On more general progress with prodigies, see Jonathan Wai, ...
Improve Your Chess Pattern Recognition: Key Moves and Motifs ...

Improve Your Chess Pattern Recognition: Key Moves and Motifs ...

International Master Arthur van de Oudeweetering

Hft \{xf5 35.9%xb7 f{b1 O-1 Free Range for the Bishops Jesse Kraai Darwin Yang Lubbock 2010 Here we have another example where both sides' bishops have free range. Note, however, one small difference: while we can regard the ...
Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson

Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson

Marshall Frady

A CLOSE ACQUAINTANCE back whentheywere in college recalls, “Even in those earliest years, Jackie wasalwaysapeculiarly strongwoman to operate in the context of a Jesse Jacksonwho already then wason a path toward his own ...
Jesse James in the County of Clay

Jesse James in the County of Clay

Jack "Miles" Ventimiglia

Presents an overview of the outlaw Jesse James, his familyand associates with an emphasis on their lives in ClayCounty, MO. This book also contains an interpretiveguidebook to the artifacts on display at the Jesse JamesFarm Museum in ...
Jesse Ventura's Marijuana Manifesto: How Lies, Corruption, ...

Jesse Ventura's Marijuana Manifesto: How Lies, Corruption, ...

Jesse Ventura

In this groundbreaking book – for the first time in paperback and fully-updated with all the latest legal information - outspoken freethinker Jesse Ventura lays out his philosophy.
Jesse and Henry Save the Day

Jesse and Henry Save the Day

Fern A. Hilton

Children have the biggest imaginations of all. Especially a little boy named, Jesse. He can make a paper airplane and just know it is real! Jesse and his paper airplane, Wee, begin their adventures together, so come along for the ride!
Jesse and the Magic Boots

Jesse and the Magic Boots

Janina Ward

Jesse finishes the school year and travels to his grandfather’s ranch for what he thought was going to be his routine summer vacation.
The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids ...

The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids ...

Greg Toppo

Mother Jones, September 23, 2011. Jesse Schell, Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, 443. Ibid. Jesse Schell, Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain (DICE ) Summit, Las Vegas, 2010. Jesse Schell, interview with author, July 23, 2013.
U.S. Department of Defense Contract Spending and the ...

U.S. Department of Defense Contract Spending and the ...

Jesse Ellman

Jesse Ellman, Gregory Sanders, Rhys McCormick ... competition in DoD contracting has remained near 50 percent in most years. Unlabeled, which accounted for as much as 7. 18 | Jesse Ellman, Gregory Sanders, and Rhys McCormick.
Jesse: A Mother's Story of Grief, Grace, and Everyday Bliss

Jesse: A Mother's Story of Grief, Grace, and Everyday Bliss

Marianne Leone

Jesse Cooper was an honor-roll student who loved to windsurf and write poetry.
Jesse: A Supernatural Thriller

Jesse: A Supernatural Thriller

Jim Feazell

During the populist and progressive eras, was when Jesse became a symbol as America’s Robin Hood, standing up against corporate syndicates in defense of the small farmer.
Jesse James

Jesse James

T J Stiles

At sixteen, Jesse James began his fighting career by killing Unionist neighbours on their doorsteps.
Clearing in the Sky & Other Stories

Clearing in the Sky & Other Stories

Jesse Stuart

Here are twenty-one tales from Kentucky's inimitable and beloved storyteller, Jesse Stuart.
Trees of Heaven

Trees of Heaven

Jesse Stuart

Jesse Stuart's first novel, published in 1940, made history in many ways, not least as the first appearance of Boliver Tussie, one of the unforgettable characters in American literature.
American Conspiracies

American Conspiracies

Jesse Ventura

In this explosive account of wrongful acts and ensuing cover-ups, Jesse Ventura offers a different side to the stories we’ve all heard and read about in the history books.
Jesse Owens: A Biography

Jesse Owens: A Biography

Jacqueline Edmondson

Discusses the life, accomplishments, and legacy of track and field star Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic games.
The Real Real

The Real Real

Emma Mclaughlin

When Hampton High senior Jesse O'Rourke is cast in a reality television show along with five other, more popular students, drama on and off screen reveals that what the audience and producers want is not the same as what Jesse wants.
Jesse: A Mother's Story

Jesse: A Mother's Story

Marianne Leone

Despite the agony of reliving his struggles, I also experienced the utter joy of Jesse's company in writing this book and that helped me keep going. Can you describe the responses you have received from the book? Has anything surprised you ...
Jesse Owens: I Always Loved Running

Jesse Owens: I Always Loved Running

Jeff Burlingame

Explores the life of Jesse Owens, including his childhood and family, his rise to excellence in track and field, his 1936 Olympic triumph, and his death and legacy.
Property

Property

Jesse Dukeminier

Jesse Dukeminier's trademark wit, passion, and human interest perspective has made Property, now in its Eighth Edition, one of the best--and best loved--casebooks of all time.
Jesse Stuart On Education

Jesse Stuart On Education

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Could a man who never earned a master's degree tell the nation's teachers and administrators how to run their schools? Jesse Stuart, who had a life-long love of education, did just that.
Jesse Owens

Jesse Owens

Thomas Streissguth

Highlights the life and accomplishments of Jesse Owens, a track-and-field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games, a time when Adolf Hitler was trying to prove the superiority of the Arian race.
Meet Jesse Jackson

Meet Jesse Jackson

Melody S. Mis

Jesse Jackson began his work with the civil rights movement at a young age and is known as a great leader in the struggle for equal rights around the world.

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