Crusade Themed Chess Set III - Medium

Crusade Themed Chess Set III - Medium Feature

• Bases: 1 1/8" Wide
• Kings: 3 1/4" Tall
• (Chess board not included; available separately)

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Crusade Themed Chess Set III - Medium Overview

7611 King Height: 3 1/4" These crusaders will lead you to victory in your next chess game. With chess pieces fashioned in full period regalia, the Crusade Themed Chess Set and 16'' Oak Veneer Chess Board will be a great addition to any game room. The marvelously detailed chess game pieces will take you back to exhilarating times of the struggle between the European and Arabic nations during the Crusades years ago. Chess Piece Features: -Opposing bases identify player -King Chess Piece Dimensions: 4 1/2 H x 1 1/2'' W or 3 1/4'' H x 1 1/8'' W Chess Board Features: -Oak chess board with contrasting dark walnut -Includes felt protectors to resist surface scratching -Border Thickness: 3/4'' -Square Size: 1 3/4'' -Overall Dimensions: 16'' x 16'' x 7/16'' Read more
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Feb 18, 2012 00:20:11
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There are a lot of these dynamic contests hosted around by many IT firms including Google(code jam), Microsoft (Code4Bill), Sun(Java 4K), Facebook(Hacker Cup) and by firms that are dedicated to host online programming contests such as TopCoder, CodeChef and HTML5. The main focus of these contests is to bring the best coders out there to limelight.

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The top 20 coders who top the rest in the Code4Bill contest earn an internship Microsoft Research Center and later offered a job at Microsoft India upon completion of the internship. Moreover, a top lucky winner of the contest will get to work with Bill Gates Technical Assistants team and that's called glamour. Facebook too, has something similar called 'Puzzle Master' where puzzles are posted in regular intervals and solving of which can get you hired by Facebook directly!!

Though there is a connotation that firms in the big league get their work done for much cheaper money through the coders who compete in these contests, the number of aspirants who participate in these contests have never gone down and stays increasing. More than the money involved, the fame and later the future chance of getting a high profile job matters to the coders in most cases.

Besides these contests hosted by firms there are several other coding contests hosted by premiere institutes and universities alike that bring you the fame and put on the wanted-list of recruiters. If you are game, then there are a thousand ways to get in the big league of firms.

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