Tuesday, May 22, 2007

The Good Life

Sadly, The only newspaper at Quiznos today was the Sheperd Express. In it I found this amusing article about a young adventurous chess player. The Sheperd Express is an openly liberal newspaper here in Milwuakee. It leans so far left Al Gore probably gets a chuckle out of its absurdity on occasion. Its also owned by the most widely distributed paper in Wisconsin, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinal. The Journal Sentinal claims to be unbias of course. How that can be true is beyond me. Anyway, its also evidence that chessplayers are like everyone else. On with the story....

The Continuing Crisis
Peru's Emilio Cordova, 15, won the South American chess championship in January. Instead of continuing a life of chess, he flew from the tournament site in Argentina to Sao Paulo, Brazil, and moved in with a 29-year-old stripper. After Emilio's two months in the fast lane, his father went to Sao Paulo and retreived him, with help from the government.

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