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Learn How to Play Chess Free Online: Tutorials for Beginners, Intermediate Players & Beyond | Open Culture

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To get started, Chess.com has produced “Everything You Need to Know About Chess,” a series of Youtube videos “designed to give every aspiring chess player the ‘one chess lesson of their life’ if they were only to get one.” Watch them, or explore these web-based tutorials. And even if you don’t have a chess set of your own, you can get started playing immediately thereafter: create an account at Chess.com and you can play against the computer or real players around the world matched to your skill level, all for free.
https://www.openculture.com/2020/11/learn-how-to-play-chess-free-online.html

The D-I-Y Origins of Night of the Living Dead | JSTOR Daily

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Night of the Living Dead became a slow-burning sensation, making back its budget a couple hundred times over at drive-ins, grindhouses, and matinee showings. Romero was credited with not only delivering an unexpected hit, but a searing social commentary that redefined an entire genre. Night of the Living Dead was a success, in every possible sense of the word.
https://daily.jstor.org/the-d-i-y-origins-of-night-of-the-living-dead/

JS Bach: where to start with his music | JS Bach | The Guardian

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‘The immortal god of harmony”: that’s what Beethoven, no less, called Johann Sebastian Bach. “Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder,” is how Schumann put it, and Bach’s music continues to inspire a feeling of reverence and love that borders on spirituality, in atheists and believers alike. An astonishingly productive composer, Bach perfected all the existing musical forms of the baroque period and took the use of harmony to a new level, setting out parameters that most of the western musical tradition has been working within ever since.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/aug/26/js-bach-where-to-start-with-his-music