World's first degree in chess offered

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<p>Chess for Success</p>

<p>Anna Nemtsova, Chronicle of Higher Education, 11/2/07</p>

<p>“If you want to be president of the United States, go to Yale. But if you want a shot at being the world’s top chess player, try Russian State Social University. The former world chess champ Anatoly Karpov says that a group of students who are set to graduate from the Moscow institution at the end of this academic year will be the world’s first to earn degrees in chess.”</p>

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<p>Chess major: the thinking man’s basket-weaving</p>