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Chessmaster Biz Secrets    by Hank Gross
Price: $9.99 USD. 47550 words. Published on February 5, 2010. .

A unique correlation of the wisdom of the great chessmasters with the principles of success in business. Quotations from such masters as Bobby Fischer, Mikhail Tal, Casablanca, and others are used as a jumping off point to explore how those maxims can be carried over into the world of commerce.
Trajan's Arch: Giuoco Piano    by Michael Williams
Price: Free! 5390 words. Published by Black Wyrm on September 12, 2010. .

Blackwyrm Books has excerpted this short story from the upcoming Michael Williams novel Trajan’s Arch for promotional purposes. Michael is best known as the author of the experimental fantasy novels Arcady and Allamandra, as well as numerous Dragonlance novels, short fiction, and poems. Feel free to share, reproduce, or distribute this story in any way you desire.
Trotter's Bottom    by Tanya Jones
Price: $1.99 USD. 74350 words. Published on December 16, 2010. .

Ophelia O. is returning from maternity leave to her job as a solicitor in the sleepy Yorkshire market town of Rambleton. But on the steps she is accosted by a Russian chess grandmaster ... This gripping tale of murder, corruption and the theft of pink piglets, first published by Headline in 1997, is a hilarious follow-up to Tanya Jones' Ophelia O comic novels. 'A tremendous talent.'
Pawns are but Poor Men    by Thomas M.  Kelly
Price: $2.99 USD. 9490 words. Published on August 10, 2011. .

A play in two acts for 2 m and 2 f. In the summer of the year 2006, a team consisting of two men and two women discover a serum to stop the aging process for an undeterminable period. The group knows the power of their discovery: If the government or the drug industry finds the formula they will either keep the discovery secret or use it to their advantage. The group agrees to test the formula.