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Master Chess 7000 is a 1.8 million game database with a Stockfish Engine that plays masterful Human Chess. With an ELO rating of 3137, Master Chess 7000 recently beat Deep Rybka 4 in a tournament and gives more realistic material evaluation. A large 2D board allows you to create your own board size and colors for large monitors. GM games as recent as July 20101.8 million games indexed for fast searcheseasy to search for games by Players namesECO codes, move order and results, easy interfaceImport and export PGN files and Board GraphicsGM statistical treeAnimate, analyze, annotate and print games

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The visually ravishing animated movie The Fantastic Mr. Fox follows a fox, voiced by George Clooney and dressed in a natty brown corduroy suit, as he cheerfully and recklessly takes his thieving ways a little too far and brings down the wrath of some sour-faced poultry farmers on his family and friends. Based on a lesser-known book by children's author Roald Dahl (who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach), the movie is the work of Wes Anderson (writer-director of Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums), who expanded and elaborated on the original story; the combination is inspired. Anderson's sensibility--his fondness for meticulous compositions, coordinated colors, and narrative filigree--can sometimes seem finicky and stiff in live-action movies, but it's exquisitely suited to the painstaking art of stop-motion animation. Every corner of the screen crackles with visual invention and whimsical humor. The top-notch vocal cast (which also features Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Michael Gambon, Owen Wilson, and others) create vivid personalities that perfectly mesh with the movie's lush colors and luscious textures. The Fantastic Mr. Fox is an off-beat gem, a giddy mix of adult emotional issues, wild animal behavior, and childlike delight. --Bret Fetzer

George Clooney and Meryl Streep lend their voices to this hilarious and heartwarming animated adventure from visionary director Wes Anderson. Mr. and Mrs. Fox (Clooney and Streep) live a happy home life with their eccentric son Ash (Jason Schwartzman) and visiting nephew Kristopherson. That is until Mr. Fox slips into his sneaky, old ways and plots the greatest chicken heist the animal world has ever seen. Based on the beloved, best-selling book by Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), Fantastic Mr. Fox is family fun at its finest.

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Each title in this beautiful series contains six sumptuously illustrated tales from Greek mythology. The stories recount the exciting exploits of the Olympian gods and goddesses, their romances, and their battles. It includes stories of brave heroes and the magical creatures, from giants to gorgons, that they encounter on their travels. Retold in engaging, age-appropriate prose for younger readers, these action-packed adventures will entertain young readers and supplement curriculum-based learning on ancient Greek culture. The book contains a glossary, as well as an introduction explaining the origins of Greek myths. Supplements school curriculum in social studies and language arts.This beautiful collection features stories of Bellerophon and the Chimera, Perseus and the Gorgon, The Labors of Hercules, Jason and the Agronauts, Odysseus and the Cyclopes, and Theseus and the Mintaur. These enduring stories recount the exciting exploits of brave heroes and the magical creatures, from giants to gorgons, that they encounter on their travels.

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To conspiracy theorists, Opus Dei is a highly secretive and powerful international organization.  To its members, however, Opus Dei is a spiritual path, a way of incorporating the teachings of Jesus into everyday life.  I Ordinary Work, Extraordinary Grace, Scott Hahn, a member of Opus Dei, describes the organization's founding, its mission, and its profound influence on his life. Hahn recounts the invaluable part Opus Dei played in his conversion from Evangelical Christianity to Catholicism and explains why its teachings remain at the center of his life.  Through stories about his job, his marriage, his role as a parent, and his community activities, Hahn shows how Opus Dei's spirituality enriches the meaning of daily tasks and transforms ordinary relationships.  He offers inspiring insights for reconciling spiritual and material goals, discussing topics ranging from ambition, workaholism, friendship, and sex, to the place of prayer and sacrifice in Christianity toady. Engaging and enlightening, Ordinary Work, Extraordinary Grace is at once a moving personal story and an inspiring work of contemporary spirituality.

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the most influential sculptor of his age. Inventive and skilled, he virtually created the Baroque style. In his religious sculptures he excelled at capturing movement and extreme emotion, uniting figures with their setting to create a single conception of overwhelming intensity that expressed the fervour of Counter-Reformation Rome. Intensity and drama also characterize his portraits and world-famous Roman fountains. This monograph provides an authoritative introduction to all aspects of Bernini's sculpture, while the full catalogue gives detailed information on his complete oeuvre.

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Medieval: Total War is a game of empire building and epic real time battles. Encompassing four centuries of warfare from the first Crusade in 1095 to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Rule your kingdom through four centuries of brutal Medieval warfare. Lay siege to mighty fortresses and command vast armies across the battlefields of Europe and North Africa. This is no time for the faint hearted. Medieval Total War - Viking Invasion Expansion Pack takes the action back in time to 793 with all new campaign and playable factions. Build an empire using trade, diplomacy, subterfuge and the art of war.

On the heels of their successful Shogun: Total War Creative Assembly moves back in time and westward on the map to shed some light on the Dark Ages. Medieval: Total War concerns the power struggles of pre-Renaissance European kings and Middle Eastern powers, as well as the conflict between the last vestiges of paganism and the growing influences of Islam, the Orthodox (Eastern) Church, and the Roman Catholic Church. These were violent and passionate times to be sure, perfect for a historical strategy game that thrives on brutality, dynasty, and war. There are three time periods to choose from, the earliest of which features more fragmented factions and primitive weaponry, the last represents a more unified period where most power struggles have been decided and gunpowder has entered the scene. With three time periods and 12 factions representing three different religions, there's a lot of replay value in the strategic game alone. Like Shogun, the game is divided into two parts: strategic and tactical. The strategic part features a map of Europe, some of Asia, and some of Africa. It's divided into territories à la Risk or Axis & Allies, and each territory represents a kingdom. Each faction begins with its own holdings and must quickly begin to out produce and conquer its neighbors. Each kingdom has its own population, loyalty rating, economy, and religious affiliations. Installing a feared or loved general as governor can enhance the kingdom, but giving an unscrupulous general the job could lead to revolt. Building structures can enhance the kingdom as well; a dock or a salt or silver mine can lead to riches while a castle protects. A bowyer or spear maker can outfit new troops. As time progresses, your king will grow old, have children, and die. If he dies without a male heir a revolution can occur. Daughters are used primarily to reward your governors and generals or offered to allies as wives. The tactical portion of the game is the 3-D battlefield, complete with deserts, rivers, rolling hills, forests, mountains, and the vast rainy plains of England. It is here that you will decide the fate of your empire. You have to use terrain effectively to win, managing your varied troops with efficiency and skill: pikemen against mounted troops, mounted troops against archers, archers against pikemen. The specialized troop types of the Turkish, Byzantine, French, and other cultures offer unique abilities and open up combat options to wily generals. Guiding the actions of thousands of meticulously researched troops and watching them execute historical military maneuvers on a giant battlefield is a joy, but if deep tactical combat is not to your liking, you can skip individual battles or have the computer control them for you. Creative Assembly added sieges to the game as well, and those can be spectacular undertakings--complete with castle walls, sorties, and machines of war. A multiplayer option is offered, but only using the tactical battle engine. There are also a few warfare only historical battles and scenarios. The two halves of the game make a rich whole. The AI is sharp, and a sense of history permeates the game. From the eerie medieval chanting that underscores playing as a Western power to the lively Islamic music that you'll hear if you play as a Middle Eastern power. The game recreates history well, but more importantly it's also fantastic to play. --Bob Andrews Pros: Excellent gameplay; strong AI Two perfect game engines working together Cons: Deep, intellectual subject matter might be too dense for some Multiplayer only exists in battle mode

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Challenging gamers to create one of the greatest empires in history, the third installment of the Caesar city building series proves once again that sometimes it's more fun to build a better past than a better future. You can open Caesar III's City Construction Kit and build a Roman city to your specification, or choose the Career Mode and face challenges assigned to you by Caesar himself. With success comes promotion and wealth, but failure will make you a feature on the lions' lunch menu. Increasing the game's lifespan is a particularly nice touch allowing you to choose either "peaceful" or "dangerous" assignments to match your mood or preferred play style. As you build colonies on the roads that lead to Rome you must encourage immigration and keep citizens happy. More than just bread and circuses, you balance trade, industry, city planning and deity worship, all while keeping in Caesar's good graces and fending off barbarian hordes. A plethora of animated visual cues show your success, as plebians and patricians noisily bustle about in a rich and lively recreation of Roman times. The tutorial levels might be a little simple, but the solid manual and fantastic in-game help should keep aspiring megalomaniacs crying "vene, vidi, vici" for hours on end. --Jack Gardiner

From the makers of the award-winning Caesar 2 comes a simulation combining the strategy of building, maintaining, and defending a thriving Roman city with the elements that make long-term playing fun. Caesar 3 includes richer graphics, new terrain sets, more progressive career structures, an intuitive interface, one-level game play, and visual feedback. The effects of the player's actions are immediately visible onscreen. Caesar 3 is sure to engross longtime Caesar fans as well as those new to city building.

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Charles Munch was the outstanding Berlioz conductor of our time. He responded instinctively to this composer's peculiarly French combination of emotional insanity allied to fanatical orchestral precision, and in the Boston Symphony he had the world's greatest "French" orchestra. All of his Berlioz performances are memorable, nowhere more so than in this outstanding Symphonie fantastique, recorded in the mid-'50s but still sounding as vivid as anyone could hope for. Munch has a particularly satisfying way of building tension through the whole performance, until the "Witch's Sabbath" explodes in a final orchestral frenzy. It's so much fun that you almost feel guilty when it's over. --David Hurwitz