Libyan leader Gaddafi plays chess as war rages....

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi appears on state television playing a game of chess.

 Libyan state television aired footage of Muammar Gaddafi meeting the president of the international chess federation.
 Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who is also a Russian provincial governor, said that he played a game of chess in Tripoli on Sunday with Gaddafi.
 He said the Libyan leader told him he had no intention of leaving the country.
 Gaddafi has called the NATO intervention with warplanes and attack helicopters an act of colonial aggression aimed at grabbing Libya s plentiful oil.