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Sam Sloan 1664 Davidson Ave., Apt. 1B Bronx NY 10453-7877 Tel. 917-507-7226 samhsloan@gmail.com July 22, 2008 To the USCF Delegates and Alternates:

Please choose one: a) New York City b) Atlanta

That still did not work. This time I wrote Sloans instead of Sloan's That should work

I will try this again. What I am trying to do is separate all these different discussions. Now, what is my "Delicate Sense of Timing". I put in an extra blank space into the title between of and Timing.

Will somebody please explain what this thread is all about? What is my "Delicate Sense of Timing"?

Neil Brennen's claim to fame is that he invented the term "Trollgar" which has been widely copied and is almost universally accepted. Now, will you stop changing the title to these threads. Note that I have changed the title. It used to be "Neil Brennen's claim to fame." I have changed it to Neil Brennen's claim to fame (no dot.)

Hi Where is Bobby Fischer in megadatabase from chessbase. thanks

From Chessdiscussion today: y SusanPolgar on Wed Jul 23, 2008 1:19 pm ColonelCrockett wrote:Gregory, Since I just found this forum I'm a bit behind. What is his stated reason for posting Paul's family info? (it sounds odd and unreasonable on its face ... I can't think of a good reason for it)

Hi Where is Bobby Fischer im megadatabase from chessbase. thanks

Another year of Fake Numbers from the USCF USCF Executive Director Bill Hall writes the following in the USCF BINFOS: "To the USCF Executive Board: "The audit is winding down and we should have a Draft for circulation by Tuesday. The bottom line should show a loss of $53,000. Although you never can be happy with a loss, considering the extra expenditures

Finally I managed to play against micro-Max. One needs to enter or key twice, after making a move. This is a neat feature because it allows you to either make moves for a while for both sides (by entering just once after each move) or making micro-Max to play against itself. Very nice!

Help Bot (White) Played: 1. e4 c5 2. Bc4 there is no opening after that. Help Bot win the game by trapping a Knight with his Bishop. I went to search for this line and found only people with low rating play Bc4. Higher Rated (2700+) player never play Bc4 Why? What was wrong with easy Level that it has to lose the Knight? Can you mark the wrong moves?

Just curious as to what is known. There was plenty of chess before the automaton came to the US, but I do not know of game scores. I have an 1827 game in which a Philadelphia lady beats the automaton (I am guessing that this is what Wikipedia means when referring to the 1st modern female player in 1830; there are certainly many female players known but they may mean this is the first game score...

Halloween Gambit: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nxe5?! Nxe5 I taught this gambit as the opening and Easy Level lost a knight for a Pawn and lost the match to Chrisf. Is this opening good enough or I should remove this Opening from GetClubs Book? As giving a knight for a pawn is no good.

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Grant Perks Undermines Delegate Mandate, Says $120,000 in Fake Money Has Been Restored In a shocking series of postings to Susan Polgar's Chess Discussion Forum, Grant Perks stated on Saturday that the auditors had caught the error made by the delegates in placing a $50,000 cap on the amount of imaginary money the USCF office can claim to have received. Here is what Perks wrote...

Bill Brock sold me a book on eBay for one cent. Of course, he probably did not realize that he was selling it to me because the real identity of the buyer is not generally revealed until the auction is over. Also, I did not immediately realize that he was the seller when I bid on that and other chess books. The book Bill Brock boldly sold me was "The 64-Square Looking Glass: Great Games of Chess...

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Hi! Is there a way of telling if your opponent in an online chess server such as msn or excite (I'm not that serious for ICC -- yet.) is a chess engine? -- "...history is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books --- books which glorify their own cause and disparage

I have copied the source programs and compiled micro-Max 4.0 and 4.8 on my Mac OS X. These cute C programs, pearls of programming, can be copied from: http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/dwnldpage.html or more precisely, from:

The $50,000 cap is a cap on the so-called "imaginary" money that the USCF is supposed to receive but does not actually get. Back when the LMA or "Life Management Assets" had two million dollars in it, every year the LMA would transfer about $100,000 to operations to service the Life Members by sending them Chess Life magazine. However, during the period 1999-2003, the entire $2 million...

On Jul 20, 5:21 am, WPraeder wprae...@aol.com wrote: John, You may find this useful:http://w2.eff.org/legal/ISP_liability/CDA230/batzel_v_smith.pdf Regards, Wayne Praeder I have just finished reading the entire court decision in Batzel v.

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1.e4 e5; 2 Nf3 Qe7;... almost unbeatable, at least as good as anything else in the e4 e5 complex. Try it yourself. I'm having a ball with it on ICC.

Ok its not Rybka. But my son has an XBox game machine and I'm trying to interest him in chess.

I notice that Wikipedia says it is not known exactly where the term comes from, or exactly why it is used. I have an 1895 reference in which Mason uses the term, giving an exact reason for his usage, and clearly in a context where the reader is not supposed to know it as any sort of standard term. Is this well known (Wikipedia not always being reliable), or does anyone have an older use? Jerry...

chessoffice wrote:I just received this email from Bill Hall. Bill Goichberg To the USCF Executive Board: The audit is winding down and we should have a Draft for circulation by Tuesday. The bottom line should show a loss of $53,000. Although you never can be happy with a loss, considering the extra expenditures

There has been little said about this. Have all of his websites been taken down?

I have received a report that there is support among some delegates for the idea of simply abolishing the entire USCF Executive Board. The delegates cannot remove an individual board member, but it does have the legal authority to abolish the entire board. There are now three types of board members: 1. Paul Truong and Susan Polgar. Truong has been proven to have forged 2464 Internet newsgroup...

Dear Chesslovers, Now Rybka 3 is released by ChessBase : http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4772 According to a ChessBase Sysop Rybka is a lousy program: http://rybkaforum.net/cgi-bin/rybkaforum/topic_show.pl?tid=241 So they are selling a lousy program. You were banned in the past if you mentioned Rybka on the ChessBase server. Is this still going to happen ? Would you trust...

I don't understand this endgame position which occurred in V. Smyslov - M. Tal, 1964. Black appears to win after some preliminary King manoeuvring. 8/3k4/1p6/p1p4p/P1Pp1Pp1/3P2P1/4K3/8 b - - 0 1 Clearly the positions of the respective Kings is critical, but I don't understand why it makes such a difference. Can anyone please explain?

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Does anybody have that book. I found it at amazon.com with a ridiculously high price $90. Is it different than Pal Benko's Endgame Laboratory which sells for $20.

Hello Chesslovers, Now ChessBase supports FRC960. This "new" feature is already supported by Arena (also before Fritz 11). This is not the first time ChessBase picks a feature firstly supported by Arena and promots like their own achievement, an other one beeing for instance the UCI support. Reading this: "To be fair, Fischer wasn't the first to voice the concern that memorization was...

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Mate in 10 by Beginner Level. In this game a new player named "Tango" played a game with Beginner Level. Beginner won the game in just 10 moves. I think he should have played with Queen odds. Game Played between Tango and beginner at GetClub.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tango: (Black)

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Should the Perks Suggestion be Implemented? Immediately after losing the election to Sam Sloan for the USCF Executive Board in July 2006, Grant Perks proposed that the delegates abolish the entire USCF Executive Board as a way to prevent Sam Sloan from taking office. As Perks pointed out, the delegates do not have the authority to remove an individual board member, but they do have the...

How do I import additional engines to use in Fritz 9? Thanks

Bill Goichberg is being evasive as usual. The annual audited financial report is usually not available until at the earliest the day before the delegates meeting, which this year will be August 8, 2008. Everybody knows this. In 2007 the official financial statements were not even ready until a few weeks after the delegate's meetings. What they and the other board members want now are the...

How can I add the Fritz engine from Fritz 11 to Chessbase 9? Thanks much for your help. Locksley

Beat by a Computer on eBay Boy am I really ****ed off. I have been trying to buy a particular edition of a book for a year. Finally I saw one listed on eBay. So, on July 8, 2008 I placed a most generous bid of $150.03 for the book. The book is Bobby Fischer's Games of Chess, published by Simon & Schuster. The auction was expiring just now, at Jul-15-08 15:57:30 PDT.

Wow, acording to this thread http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22342 the antique Rebel 12 has an elo rating of 3621 on a modern Core2 quad core. Wow....! Why do people bother messing with Rybka then??! (laugh)

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