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Dr. Frank Brady, who is Chairman of the Department of Mass Communications, Journalism, Television and Film at St. John's University, New York and is Professor of Communication Arts and Journalism at that university, as well as being the founding editor of Chess Life magazine, has expressed opposition to the plan to put Chess Life online as follows: Colleagues: As the founding Editor of Chess...

"samuli.saarelma@googlemail.com" samuli.saarelma@googlemail.com wrote: olkiukkokeskusteluissa. Tämä on toki ymmärrettävää, koska heidän on pitänyt alkaa tarttua viimeisiin oljenkorsiin ("mut ei kaikki ilmastolämpeneminen ratkea ydinvoimalla"), kun kaikki todelliset Mielenkiintoiselta näyttää tämä oljenkorsiin vetoaminen, kun eilen ja tänään olemme saaneet kuulla valtakunna uutisista

In a message dated 5/19/2008 4:19:00 A.M. Central Daylight Time, samhsloan@gmail.com writes: Have you read the Goichberg proposal? The "New Plan" advocated by Goichberg is to make Chess Life magazine optional. He has also stated that if there are not enough subscribers to Chess Life, the subscription rate will be raised or the print version will be eliminated and the magazine will be...

Copyright infringement might seem to be a relatively safe form of theft. Generally the copyright owner has to file a civil suit and when the thief is an indigent derelict such as Sloan, and if damages are small, this is a waste of time. This seems to be Sloan's speculation. In fact, it turns out that copyright infringement is a criminal offence when when committed "for purposes of commercial...

Reasons Why Polgar Did not Stay for the Board Meeting in Tulsa What Polgar actually wrote seems reasonable unless one considers the fact that when they ran for election they knew that the board met four times a year and the most important part of their duties was that they would be expected to attend those four meeting. It was known months in advance that there would be a meeting this...

What Polgar actually wrote seems reasonable unless one considers the fact that when they ran for election they knew that the board met four times a year and the most important part of their duties was that they would be expected to attend those four meeting. It was known months in advance that there would be a meeting this past weekend in Tulsa. No doubt some details were not provided but...

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From the wholly owned and controlled Trolgar chessdiscussion web site: by Ron Suarez on Sun May 18, 2008 3:27 pm Susan, would you please tell us why you were in Tulsa earlier this week at the Championship, and then left before the Board Meeting? I believe this meeting was not a teleconference one by design, meaning that you and Paul were the only ones participating by telephone when all the...

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"Madness! Madness! ", spoken by Major Clipton, saying the final words in the movie "Bridge on the River Kwai": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050212/quotes Only a few months ago, the newly elected members of the USCF Executive Board were congratulating themselves on what a highly qualified and experienced team they were, who would be able to lead the USCF to great glories.

This post is prompted by encountering posts in a newsgroup on Chess discussing the question of somehow revitalizing Chess. A lot of Chess games are draws, and quite a bit of book knowledge of openings is needed to play Chess competitively. These things can be perceived as problems. If Capablanca Chess is not the answer, why not something inspired by Pocket Knight Chess?

Why shouldn't white push the pawn on d6?

A question for OK attorneys or knowledgeable residents. Who is authorized to serve process in Oklahoma?

I would like to praise Jan Newton, of Goddess Chess, for once again providing a prize for 'best fighting game' in the Women's competition of the US Championships. I understand that an anonymous donation has been added this year to boost the fund. Good on you Jan, for initiating this effort, and for those who added to it. Cordially, Phil Innes

Susan Polgar has reported on her heavily-censored blog that she has lost her wallet and that she will take it back with no questions asked. Maybe identity theft and impersonation will follow? Is there justice in the grand circle of life?

Has anyone heard of a Tristan James of Kentucky? Just curious who this person may be.

Hello all: I have seen (and alas, I do not recall where) the statement, "I dominate them all!", attributed to Alekhine. Does an actual citation that can be trusted exist? If so, where, when, and in what context did the champion make this remark? Regards, zdrakec

This one is mine: 1. 4k3/qqqqqqqq/8/8/8/8/QQQQQQQQ/4K3 w - - 0 109: White to play and mate in 4. There are no duals - only one moves mates in 4. Move given at end of post, with sample continuation. These two were posed by me and solved by likesforests www.freechess.org) or chess.com] in 20 minutes total! 2. Give a proof game for pos. 1, ie Show that the position in prob. 1 is legally...

A new feature of FIDE website: http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=4101588: Color Percentage: White : Win: 52% Draw: 22% Loss: 26% Black : Win: 0% Draw: 46% Loss: 54% Statistics are valid for the tournaments submitted with color information after January 2007.

INFECTED BY VIRUS I can send messages but I can't get them. A virus apparently has wiped out all of my files as well as all of my saved e-mails. I intend to answer Taylor Kingston's questions about WW1 and respectfully request him to resend them ONLY AFTER I advise everyone that my computer has been repaired.

There are a lot of videos of MTel Masters 2008 at http://en.chessfish.com/modules/cfvideos/viewcat.php?op=&cid=5 Some of them are interviews withe the tournament participants taken from GM Robert Fontaine from France. A lot of pictures from the playing hall, chess analyses and so on - look by yourselfe.

Polgar is right for once As everybody knows, I have been extremely critical of Paul Truong and Susan Polgar. However, a posting by Polgar that became public today is so obviously correct that I need to point that out. In an online debate with Bill Goichberg, in a message dated 5/6/2008 10:05:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, SusanPolgar writes: "You on your own made a number of decisions shortly...

I know that Paul Morphy, as far as we know, composed only one problem. Sissa 1864 pg 371, available via google books http://books.google.com/books?id=1ioCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA337&dq=sissa+ridder#PPA371,M1 gives a problem listed as by Paul Morphy. It certainly looks like a problem rather than a game position. I figure this is a mislabeling, most likely a problem dedicated to Paul Morphy rather than by...

Biel Interzonal 1976, round 18, next to last, position after White's 35. move: 2r5/PP2R1PK/3n2NP/5P2/1Q1B1p2/6p1/6bp/5q1k b The moves up to this point had been:

"Alekhine's Parrot" (that quacking fowl Phil Innes) writes at the _Chessville Weekly_: "Coming up later this Year – Strongest ever US Tournament. "September 19th to 28th sees a Category 15 tournament on US soil in the 10 player SPICE CUP. Seven of the 10 invitees have already signed up, and I understand average Elo is currently 2600."

Ivanchuk is fantastic at MTel Masters 2008 and beats all his opponents in first tie of the tournament. Source, shots and standings: http://en.chessfish.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=636

"Rich Hutnik" richardhutnik@gmail.com wrote in message news:345ea8f4-e519-4f7b-8f40-abf48358fcf9@k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com... On May 8, 12:16 am, Ed Murphy emurph...@socal.rr.com wrote: zzbun...@netscape.net wrote: On May 7, 9:32 am, David Richerby dav...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: zzbun...@netscape.net zzbun...@netscape.net wrote: On Apr 18, 10:18=A0pm,...

I came across this hilarious article from an old Harper’s Weekly magazine. It portrays Paul Morphy as “Jack the Giant-Killer” and gives a spoof on his adventures in Europe in 1858. http://www.rookhouse.com/blog/?p=202 Thanks, Morphy

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Takes first place at K-3 National via tie breaks. Nice kid. One of our own from Massachusetts.

I found these two sites: http://www.lutanho.net/pgn/board2fen.html http://www.bytewings.nl/fen/ Off this thread on the SchemingMind site: http://www.schemingmind.com/topic.aspx?topic_id=75068 They look of value to me. The second one allows ? spaces. - Rich

A lot of pics from Round 4 - free for web sites, blogs and personal usage are available at http://en.chessfish.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=634 and http://en.chessfish.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=635

THE CASTING COUCH The other major roles that will need to be filled a Jocelyn Jordan, the beautiful and fetching daughter of Senator Thomas Jordan. -- Sam Sloan Dear Sam, The obvious choice for this role is your tenth-cousin Ann Coulter.

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Ivans move G-8 to F-6 knight move Lets see how ivan plays this opening ..

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Now she allows death threats and an open attack on a ten year old girl on her "open forum". http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2008/05/saturday-open-forum_10.html

QUICK INTERVIEW WITH JEREMY SILMAN Q. If you could change one thing in the chess world, what would it be? A. I would like to see many of the governing bodies (FIDE#, USCF, etc.) fall into a black hole.

From the Saturday Open Forum today: ----------------------------------------- no rednecks said... I would like to see Judge Brian Lafferty, Harry Payne, Donna Alarie and Brian Mottershead run through a woodchipper head first and then have the pieces fed to chickens. Saturday, May 10, 2008 11:10:00 AM CDT

"Specific Proposed Ideas" by Susan Polgar In response to the criticism that in the nine months since Susan Polgar became a member of the USCF Executive Board in August, 2008, she has not proposed one specific idea, she has posted an article on her discussion group entitled "Specific Proposed Ideas". Take a look at the specific proposals that Susan Polgar advocates. Each and every one of them...

Take a look at the specific proposals that Susan Polgar advocates. Each and every one of them advocates publishing more photos of Susan Polgar in Chess Life magazine and advocates more publicity for Paul Truong. Here is an example, "Both Paul and I offered to go to these events to represent the USCF. Paul offered to conduct free classes or seminars to teach parents, coaches, organizers, and...

There are already more upsets and surprises than is usual in any group of 2700+ Super GMs: The first two rounds saw 1 win by White but 3 from Black. Here is the latest //Phil Innes ----------- Bu blundered and got a lost position against Ivanchuk after only 8 moves!! The game went on to move 32 but it was basically lost after White's 9.Bxb5+. GM Ivanchuk (2740) - GM Bu Xiangzhi (2708)

I shelled out the $20 for Chessmaster XI and found, just as I suspected I would, that the computer opponents still only take a nanosecond per move in rated play, thereby ruining the simulation of playing a real person. A real person would ordinarily take a nanosecond for one move, 20 seconds for another, and perhaps two or three when stumped. You'd get the chance to evaluate the position the...

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