The Seattle Times reports on a chess venue situated on Seattle’s most dangerous intersection.

A local named Ray Wright Jr (“Uncle Ray”) is trying to engage area residents in the game to give them something to do, other than hustle for drug money or commit violent crimes. Ray and his partner in the endeavor both learned the game in prison.

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Traveller, one of the first sci-fi RPGs, returns in a new version from Mongoose publishing.

The first edition was published by GDW in 1977.

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120 teachers in Alberta’s Elk Island public school system are competing in a Scrabble fundraising tournament today.

Proceeds will go to African grandparents caring for the children of AIDS victims.

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