"I don't like to bore rgcm readers with my games, but since you
insist, here's one with Stephen Barbre, who, if memory serves, has won
the US Absolute Correspondence Chess Championship, definitely a postal
master-class player:"

Barbre-Kingston, 1981 Golden Knights Finals, 8/1983-3/1984: 1. d4 Nf6
2. Nc3 d5 3. Bg5 Nbd7 4. Nf3 g6 5. e3 Bg7 6. Bd3 O-O 7. O-O c5 8. Ne5
Nxe5 9. dxe5 Ng4 10. Be2 d4 11. exd4 cxd4 12.Nb5 Nxe5 13. Nxd4 Qb6 14.
Bxe7 Re8 15. Bh4 Qxb2 16. Rb1 Qxa2 17. Bb5 Bg4 18. f3 Bd7 19. Bxd7 Nxd7
20. Rxb7 Qd5 21. Nc6 Qxc6 22. Rxd7 a5 23. Re1 a4 24. Rxe8+ Rxe8 25. Rd6
Qc5+ 26. Bf2 Re1+ 27. Qxe1 Qxd6 28. g3 a3 29. Qe8+ Bf8 30. Qa4 Qb4 31.
Qa8 Qb1+ 32. Kg2 Qxc2 33. g4 Qb2 0-1



How do we know that the winner wasn't using computer help? Yes, I
think it is entirely possible that Taylor Kingston overwhelmed the
absolute champ by consulting with Atari 2600 chess program, retrofitted
to run on a Cray supercomputer. His partner in crime? Bob Hyatt, of
course. Together, they "stole" six million dollars worth of processor
time from the Cray Corporation in order to win this one game. Note the
hyperactivity of Black's Queen, snarfing pawns -- that's all the
"proof" we need.


"Never take the Queen's Knight pawn with your Queen." -- somebody
famous