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6-3-2008 3:56 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/493e3374-b248-4cad-8713-24ff3e72b257/6F727899-C197-4210-8712-4EAD3E7CF1BB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/02/wuchess-online-chess-for-the-hip-hop-crowd-why-not/" href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/02/wuchess-online-chess-for-the-hip-hop-crowd-why-not/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.techcrunch.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/02/wuchess-online-chess-for-the-hip-hop-crowd-why-not/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.techcrunch.com/img/56EBF908-7503-4F45-8C77-CE122A8B0E56" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/02/wuchess-online-chess-for-the-hip-hop-crowd-why-not/"><P><A href="http://www.wuchess.com">WuChess<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.32.0.2/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A>, a partnership between Wu-Tang Clan’s <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RZA">RZA<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.32.0.2/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A> and <A href="http://www.chesspark.com/">ChessPark<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.32.0.2/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A>, a social network around <A href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/chesspark">online chess playing<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.32.0.2/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A>, launches today. It’s the “world’s first online chess and hip hop community” and will also include exclusive videos and mp3 of the “hottest cats in hip hop.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/02/wuchess-online-chess-for-the-hip-hop-crowd-why-not/"><P>See a tour of the service <A href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/chesspark">here<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.32.0.2/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A>. That’s as far as most of you’ll get on WuChess, because, incredibly, they’re charging $48/year to join. ChessPark, by contrast, at least has a free version (but no videos or mp3s, sadly). The company promises to donate “a portion of the profits” to the <A href="http://www.hiphopchessfederation.org/">Hip Hop Chess Federation<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.32.0.2/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/02/wuchess-online-chess-for-the-hip-hop-crowd-why-not/"><P>Awesome. Hip hop, chess and $48 per year - definite winner.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6F727899-C197-4210-8712-4EAD3E7CF1BB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>