Congratulations Bobby Cheng
Bobby Cheng is pretty good on the Melbourne primary schools under 12 chess circuit. In fact he's pretty good on the Melbourne under 14, under...
The woeful Kindle: Part Two
[caption id="attachment_9707" align="alignleft" width="484" caption="Pope's Odyssey as it appears on your Kindle"][/caption] I wrote previously about two of my sub $300 IT purchases. The Livescribe...
The master at work
Magnus Carlsen is not only now the highest rated player in the world, but like a lot of chess geniuses seems to be a cut...
School league tables
Julia Gillard has announced that the new national website for schools will include average NAPLAN scores. Principals hate the idea, as do some education academics....
A pretext to rave about Beethoven
Richard Ronald Brautigam:'What's really remarkable is not so much that he could compose something like this, but that he could play it.' I've only just...
Rabbits, rabbits, rabbits out they go (books actually)
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