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jueis Today 03:42 AM
Mowing the lawn is simple, but planting a flower ... think again. Put on your gardening gloves and collect beautiful bouquets. Plant flowers side by side in rows of three or more, but be careful, every rose has its thorn in this match-3 game. New flowers arrive frequently so you're green thumb must act quickly to avoid incoming flower-food! To be a Master Gardener, hone your skills and become...
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Borat Today 02:10 AM
What is the best handheld portable chess computer on the market today? Would like good graphics and strong rating, and portablity and battery life... I'm aware Saitek, Excalibur, and Novag are the only manufacturers of such computers, correct? I would throw pocket pc into the mix, but these devices have such poor battery life and longevity that I don't think they really qualify as portable...
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samsloan Today 01:35 AM
Bill Goichberg has been circulating a "new plan". Essentially, his new plan calls for a reinstatement of the "no magazine membership". Regular dues for those who want the magazine will be $42. Those who do not want the magazine will only have to pay $29. In the fiscal year ending May 30, 2008, three weeks from today, the USCF will have lost $300,000. Bill Goichberg seems to think that this...
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Kidon Yesterday 06:42 PM
GM Vassily Ivanchuk, GM Veselin Topalov and GM Ivan Cheparinov won their first games in this year MTel Masters super chess tournament. Ivanchuk (UKR) was very strong with black pieces today and won in Queen Indian - Nimzovich variation against Tejmur Radjabov (AZE). Veselin Topalov (BUL) defeated Levon Aronian (ARM) after an effect rook sacrifice on move 36. The game was played in Catalan 3. ......
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Sanny Yesterday 08:34 AM
One thing I found was that GetClub was very costly compared to ChessMaster. So I have reduced the Price of Subscription at GetClub by half. Now, I feel I will get a lot of Customers. Here is the new Current Rate of Subscription. http://www.getclub.com/PurchaseGames.html
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parrthenon@cs.com Yesterday 02:51 AM
THE WAY IT WAS This, from a Soviet defector, supports the notion that Botvinnik was, at least to some extent, controlling chess information in Russia. -- Taylor Kingston There was also force or its threat -- in one form or another -- employed by both Botvinnik and Karpov during their reigns. Those who refused to
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nostrebornitsuj@hotmail.com May 7th 08 08:57 PM
Hello, I just bought a conchess ambassador from the local charity shop but I don't have a power lead. The power socket is a 5-pin din but I don't know any more about it. Can someone tell me exactly what type of lead I need so that I know what to ask for when I go to the shop? Thank you. Justin.
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ttk5079@gmail.com May 7th 08 05:38 PM
In another thread, to which Google for some unknown reason will not let me post, Sam Sloan tells about attending the Republican National Convention in 1964 (see http://tinyurl.com/5akoxl). I watched most of the 1964 Republican Convention on television, and Sam's account differs from my recollection on at least one important point. He claims to have been there for one day only, during which...
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theamicableprogrammer@live.com May 7th 08 11:13 AM
Like Chess and got a Wii ? A forum for Nintendo Wii Chess players to make friends, arrange matches, swap friend codes, and offer hits and tips on playing Chess http://wiichessclub.forumwww.com/
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Sanny May 7th 08 08:01 AM
I found 5 Million Copies of Chess Master has been Sold and it Costs $19.95. So ChessMaster Creator has earned $100 Million Dollars. Look he http://www.game-remakes.com/game.php?id=126 Chess Master Sold 5 Million Copies for $19.95 each !!! How much good is ChessMaster to GetClub?
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alobo200 May 6th 08 12:47 PM
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dajava May 5th 08 06:09 PM
Hi, I 'd like to introduce a new Korean chess playing freeware. http://blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=a840713&logNo=30027088697# (in Korean) http://mfiles.naver.net/6bbc5e8692cba7113b5b/data28/2008/1/28/136/jang-a840713.exe
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The Historian[_2_] May 5th 08 05:11 PM
On May 5, 10:59 am, "Bob Campbell" b...@bob.bob wrote: Why don't you take your whiny, "everyone is against me, I'm being persecuted" act somewhere else, OK? Yeah, that's what Susan Polgar's blog is for.
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samsloan May 5th 08 03:19 PM
Here is an example of the improprieties of Forum Moderation. This was posted in February 2007 at a time when I was both a member of the board and a candidate for re-election. One forum moderator, Tanstaafl, who we now know to be Herbert Rodney Vaughn, and who filed a 400 page ethics complaint against me in color (at USCF Expense) advocates that I should be permanently banned from posting to the...
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RookHouse May 5th 08 02:25 PM
Well, since there hasn't been much chess discussion on here lately, I guess I'll post another article here for the "wolves" to tear apart. Here you go: http://www.rookhouse.com/blog/?p=194 Enjoy the carnage.
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dajava May 5th 08 12:34 PM
Hi, I 'd like to introduce a new Korean chess playing freeware. http://blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=a840713&logNo=30027088697# (in Korean) http://mfiles.naver.net/6bbc5e8692cba7113b5b/data28/2008/1/28/136/jang-a840713.exe (download here)
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samsloan May 5th 08 12:28 PM
If you want to see something truly amazing and astounding, play the following youtube videos about Claudia Munoz: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9LborxiiIM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaBJZ7vwEjo http://womancandidatemaster.blogspot.com/ Claudia Munoz is a 10-year-old Mexican girl who was born in Texas and who lives in Acuna, Mexico. She is a dual national who chooses to
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samsloan May 5th 08 10:46 AM
On Apr 30, 1:09 pm, "Chess One" OneCh...@comcast.net wrote: "samsloan" samhsl...@gmail.com wrote in message Do you feel that by posting thousands of obscene and pornographic messages from "The Fake Sam Sloan" and by posting similar obscene messages on her own blog athttp://www.susanpolgar.blogspot.com, Susan Polgar has been "eliminating gender-bias from the inside". To...
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ABELP May 4th 08 10:06 PM
Hola món, Els catalanoparlants que estigueu en aquest grup, sabeu d'algun grup on es parli en catalą dels escacs? Es que estic recopilant recursos pel meu blog elpeonegre.net Grącies, and thanks also to the non catalan speakers to let me post this request.
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lumecas May 4th 08 07:14 PM
Hello to all the friends chess players: We invite them to visit our blog http://comentariosdeajedrez.blogspot.com We recommend the new articles on: 1. The Euphemism in Botvinnik
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help bot May 4th 08 01:39 AM
Sam Sloan wrote: That great and distinguished work of great scholarship "How to Talk Dirty in Japanese and English" has just been revised and updated and the new edition is out today and is available at: Wow, this is probably a work of HUGE interest to most chess players-- especially those here in rgc. Ranking just behind "How I Became a Nearly-an-IM"
1 rec.games.chess.politics (Chess Politics)
Sanny May 3rd 08 06:56 AM
A week back Zebediah used to win in 20-30 moves but now the GetClubs game was a bit improved now Zebediah takes 35 moves to win against the Advance Level. If you can spot any mistake in GetClubs game I can improve it further. Please see the game and let me know which were the moves that were wrong. Advance Level thinks for 30 min/ move So it is very difficult for me
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Shieldfire May 3rd 08 06:47 AM
Hi, Does anyone know if there is a utility to convert Chessbase (modern) files to ChessAssistant format? -- Posted via NewsDemon.com - Premium Uncensored Newsgroup Service -------http://www.NewsDemon.com------ Unlimited Access, Anonymous Accounts, Uncensored Broadband Access
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fedup@had.it May 2nd 08 05:39 PM
It looks like some parent(s) has had enough of the vagueness of the pre-tournament publicity on the Polgar blog site regarding the Official SP National Invitational Qualifier: Anonymous said... Please see the USCF Rulebook: 32A. Announcement. Prizes to be awarded and the methods used to allocate them must be announced in pre-tournament publicity if they vary from the standards below. In all...
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parrthenon@cs.com May 2nd 08 02:03 PM
THE BOBBY FISCHER THAT WE LOVED by GM Larry Evans (Chess Life, March 2008) During the time when bogus rationales were discussed at length in a vain attempt to "justify" the multitude of Fischer demands, Larry Evans wrote a nice piece pointing out that they were not fair, and Chess Lies published it. That was too much "sunlight" for Mr. Fischer to handle. -- Greg Kennedy
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Plato Been May 2nd 08 10:11 AM
Sports As Games of Not Facing Evil Individuals - The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Boycott 18 June 2006 {HRI 20060618-V1.6} (Version 1.6 on 18 Mar 2008) ...
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help bot May 1st 08 11:29 PM
On May 1, 5:34 pm, "parrthe...@cs.com" parrthe...@cs.com wrote: FISCHER & KASPAROV ON THE USCF (some 20-odd years ago) “As far as the U.S. Chess Federation goes, I have nothing to do with them, I consider them to be a pro-Soviet, criminal organization, terrible people. I would like...I would appreciate it if all my fans canceled their subscriptions to their horrible magazine Chess...
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Brian Lafferty May 1st 08 06:49 PM
From chessdiscussion, the site owned and controlled by Trolgar: -------------------------------------------------------------------- by artichoke on Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:35 pm Engelbert wrote:You also don't know many people. But that doesn't stop you from insulting and attacking them, does it? Horton hears a who Mr. Payne. Horton hears a who. It's not up to you to judge if you're a racist...
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OlimpBase May 1st 08 06:09 PM
It high time to find some free time to match the chess history quiz for your idle amusement. This time you are going to cope with 12 questions testing your knowledge of history of continental team chess championships (6 for Euro tch, 3 for Asia, 2 for the Americas and 1 for Africa). The questions are usually quite hard, but beware! - all of the answers are somewhere inside the database. Have...
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zdrakec April 30th 08 03:21 PM
Thank you, Dr. Spinrad, for yet another fascinating article. Regards, zdrakec
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Brian Lafferty April 29th 08 11:16 PM
The following appears on the Trolgar controlled forum chessdiscussion: by Harry Payne on Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:25 pm gregory wrote:It should be noted that Mr. Sloan and Brian Lafferty has had sanction after sanction overturned by Bill Goichberg and the FOC over the course of a year now. When I was on the FOC and moderation committees I personally witnessed similiar behavior to be tacitly...
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News - Motzarella April 29th 08 09:01 PM
Five senior directors including the CEO resigned over the weekend - anybody know the details? www.englishchess.org.uk Those that resigned appear to be blaming the forces of conservatism in English Chess for inhibiting them from driving forward the grand vision. Do we know who are these forces and what the grand vision was/is?
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danielp59@aim.com April 28th 08 11:53 PM
hi all i'm looking to improve my game and my thoughts have always been that you wont get better unless you play better players than yourself. i have been trying out several of the CC chess sites and was wondering how one would rank the following sites as to the strength of the competition. i have my thoughts as to which one has the stronger players but would like the imput of others. the...
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Chess One[_2_] April 28th 08 01:33 PM
round 7 line-up Grischuk Alexander 2716 - Wang Yue 2689 Gashimov Vugar 2679 - Kamsky Gata 2726 Radjabov Teimour 2751 - Carlsen Magnus 2765 Cheparinov Ivan 2695 - Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2752 Karjakin Sergey 2732 - Inarkiev Ernesto 2684 Navara David 2672 - Svidler Peter 2746 Adams Michael 2729 - Bacrot Etienne 2705
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reshmaruby@gmail.com April 28th 08 08:32 AM
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/usr/ceo April 28th 08 06:17 AM
I'm currently attempting to study some classic opening, middle, and end-games as described and depicted in some books I have been reading. What I would like to be able to do is setup a game as I see in a book or article, assume one of the players -- Black or White -- make a move, and then have the computer assume the role of the other player. All the chess programs I have found that are common...
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jackb4yc@gmail.com April 28th 08 06:16 AM
http://aac.ebusinesswiz.com I'm wondering if anyone here has used Affiliate Elite. Is it worth buying? ******************************** Charles D. Email Marketing Wizard, CEO http://www.ebusinesswiz.com ********************************
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Brian Lafferty April 28th 08 01:17 AM
The Polgar Blog covered the Lubbock Open this weekend in Lubbock, Texas. No mention on her blog at all about the National Girls Championship taking place in Dallas this weekend. Is Ms. Polgar too busy to note another Texas event on her blog or is there a strained relationship here. Inquiring minds would like to know.
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Brian Lafferty April 27th 08 08:05 PM
Only the Polgar bloggers know for sure. An amusing exchange. One can only marvel at Paul Truong Phd.'s ignorance. Enjoy. ------------------------------------------------------- That is quite impressive. It is a great achievement Best wishes A. Weiler Saturday, April 26, 2008 1:17:00 PM CDT Anonymous Anonymous said...
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Sanny April 27th 08 06:57 AM
Below is a decent game, But in the end Help Bot was a pawn ahead. I found at move 17... Nf6xe4 Help Bot took the Pawn. Was there any way for Normal Level to save that Pawn, As all moves were forced moves. Game Played between help bot and normal at GetClub.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- help bot: (Black) normal: (White) Game Played at:...
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johnny_t April 27th 08 05:50 AM
At the Washington State Elementary Chess tournament today, I got to play against Super GM Nakamura today. What a coup. All I had to do was to try and play well. I ended in this position when the last piece left the table. And at that point, I was clearly in the wind, as I do not play enough chess to be in this kind of endgame with this man. I will NEVER play enough chess to be in this...
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Srini123 April 27th 08 12:31 AM
Hi, Checkout Week # 17 chess problems at the following link. (Week # 17) http://oraclearticles.googlepages.com/chess.htm The aim is to find the shortest possible route for the solution. Position: Black to move and checkmate.
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parrthenon@cs.com April 26th 08 11:28 PM
GREG KENNEDY'S BIG LIE GK's handling of his private world title had selected GM Shirov as challenger, but instead of, say, giving GK a rematch clause, Mr. Shirov was simply cheated out of his shot at the title altogether! ....Instead of arguing that Gary Kasparov was a champion of "justice", perhaps Larry Evans should take a good, hard look at what justice is -- like he did when Bobby ...
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KING_FOLP April 26th 08 09:59 PM
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KING_FOLP April 26th 08 09:59 PM
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KING_FOLP April 26th 08 09:59 PM
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