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Andrew Soltis (born May 28, 1947) is a chess author and columnist as well as a Grandmaster. He has been inactive in chess competition since the 1980s. His column Chess to Enjoy is one of the longest running in Chess Life, the publication of the United States Chess Federation. He has authored or co-authored around thirty books. Soltis is also a weekly columnist for the New York Post. He was named chess journalist of the year by the Chess Journalists of America in 1988.

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Clients really do Shel out $$

Jared Abbruzzese turned a spotlight on one of Albany's dirtiest -- and most widely known -- secrets on the stand yesterday: Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's side gig as a private lawyer, earning big bucks he never has to disclose. Silver, who earns $12 ...

From ANDY SOLTIS, New York Post,  21 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Sheldon Silver,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party

Obama's approval below 50 percent

For the first time in his 10 months in office, less than half of Americans approve of the way President Obama is doing his job in a Gallup survey. Only 49 percent of those surveyed in a Gallup daily tracking poll gave the president a thumbs-up. That's ...

From ANDY SOLTIS, New York Post,  21 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Gallup,  Gerald Ford,  Bill Clinton,  Ronald Reagan

News wire feeling ire over Palin

The Associated Press is struggling to defend its decision to assign a fleet of 11 reporters to pore over the facts in Sarah Palin's best-selling memoir "Going Rogue: An American Life." The news agency was thrown on the defensive after critics -- ...

From ANDY SOLTIS, New York Post,  20 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Sarah Palin,  Barack Obama,  Facebook Inc.,  Amazon.com

Peeper's republic

The eyes have it! At least one member of a Chinese honor guard had trouble keeping a straight military face when guest of honor President Obama was welcomed at a state dinner in Beijing yesterday. The president inspected the troops as he arrived at the ...

From ANDY SOLTIS, New York Post,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Hu Jintao,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Wen Jiabao,  White House

Cheney: Obama shows weakness with bow

Dick Cheney blasted President Obama today for showing weakness when he bowed to Japan's Emperor Akihito. There is no reason for an American president to bow to anyone, the former vice president told Politico.com. PHOTOS: OBAMA IN ASIA "Our friends and ...

From ANDY SOLTIS, New York Post,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Dick Cheney,  Emperor Akihito,  US State Department,  White House

Schools: Stop bedbugging us

The Department of Education is advertising for a killer -- soliciting bids for the "identification and extermination of bedbugs within the schools citywide." A listing in yesterday's City Record said a contract with a pest-control professional would ...

From ANDY SOLTIS, New York Post,  17 Nov 2009

Post buys Madoff polos at auction, so now you can...

If Bernie Madoff stole the shirt off your back, here's your chance to replace it with one of his -- thanks to the New York Post. Three Post readers who want to be the height of sporting fashion will each win a polo shirt custom-made for the swindler ...

From ANDY SOLTIS, New York Post,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: New York Post,  Charles Ponzi,  Sitting Bull,  Mercedes-Benz,  Frank DiPascali

Palin punches back

Sarah Palin wants her nemesis David Letterman to keep zinging her memoir -- because it sells books. Letterman has been blasting "Going Rogue" almost every night, with skits like "Things More Fun Than Reading the Sarah Palin Memoir." The 2008 GOP ...

From ANDY SOLTIS, New York Post,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Sarah Palin,  David Letterman,  U.S. Republican Party,  Barbara Walters,  Oprah Winfrey

'Dear Abby' family feud

The Alzheimer’s-afflicted creator of “Dear Abby” is being cheated out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by her daughter, her son says. Pauline Phillips, 91, turned her celebrated advice column over to her daughter, Jeanne, in 1995, when the disease ...

From ANDY SOLTIS, New York Post,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Pauline Phillips,  Abigail Van Buren

Sniper death bed

At 8:30 p.m. tonight, Beltway sniper John Allen Muhammad will shower in his Virginia cell and begin his countdown to death. The 48-year-old former Gulf War marksman will be led next door at 8:50 to the death chamber at Greensville Correctional Center, ...

From ANDY SOLTIS, New York Post,  10 Nov 2009
Related Topics: John Allen Muhammad,  Supreme Court of the United States,  James D. Martin,  Lee Boyd Malvo

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