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Today after studing 10-12 games of Beginner Level against Help Bot, I found earlier GetClub was not defend its King properly. So a few improvements were done in GetClub Chess to Save its King. As I saw Help Bot easily taking the GetClubs King While Beginner was moving its pieces at wromg places. The game was much improved after this modification. Play Chess at: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html

Every site has dropped them or claimed they are out of stock, and House of Staunton is no longer making pieces for them? Has the company gone under? (DGTprojects is still up, but there does not seem to be any coverage in the states). Has the Citrine taken them out? What has happened?

Alexandra Kosteniuk is a Russian chess Grandmaster with a FIDE rating of 2523, presently ranked eighth in the women chess world (according to April 2008 FIDE rating list). Her most notable chess achievements include: winning the Women's European Chess Championship in 2004, winning the Russian Women's Championship with 9/11 score and a performance rating of 2691 in 2005, winning the first...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Apr 9, 2:52 pm, Guy Macon http://www.guymacon.com/ wrote: samsloan wrote: I hope everybody realizes that the above message is fake. I did not write this.

Today, Susan Polgar posted the following on her chessdiscussion.com http://www.chessdiscussion.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1031 The Jerry Hanken issue Post by Susan Polgar on Wed Apr 09, 2008 3:03 pm In spite of my good will toward the regrettable recent conduct by Mr. Hanken, here is what he publicly stated this morning about my husband

LEVEL FOUR SANCTION By a vote of 3 in favor and none opposed, the Moderation Committee is imposing a level four sanction on Sam Sloan 11115292 as a result of his posts: MQ:Where are Bauer, Berry, and Channing on the Finances? by samsloan on Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:53 am #89659 Do not make personal attacks or defamatory or disparaging comments about any person, group or company.

There are 257 post and you have 3 . Obviously you do not bring anything to the table in the group , no computer talk , no chess talk at all , i read your 3 ... One thing you do bring is your whining and crying about other people ..... Sanny and i will play chess here as long as we feel like it so get over it ....

Joel Channing Talked a Better Game than He Played In Joel Channing's final interview, as reported in the New York Times, he said that since chess is a "zero-sum game" (in that there is always one winner and one looser) his efforts to make the USCF run like a business failed. http://gambit.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/united-states-chess-federation-executive-board-member-resigns/ That is not...

White Normal Level Plays (GetClub Chess Normal) vs (IVAN 1-2 min) 1. e4 Now its Ivans move Bye Sanny

These remarks are all being posted today on Susan's Blog at: http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2008/04/another-sad-day-for-uscf.html Some of the remarks are so typical of Paul Truong a/k/a "The Fake Sam Sloan" that he must have written them. For example: "I bet you we'll be able to get rid of Polgar and deport her back to Hungary soon. "Hah! That is a laugh Mr. Laughing Laugherty!

On Apr 9, 3:13 am, Gregory wrote: On Apr 9, 1:00 am, p944dc wrote: On Apr 8, 7:20 pm, Gregory wrote: It is sad that you are so caught up in an emotional bandwagon against a candidate that you are trying to remove that you can't see the logic of this. It is also sad that you are deliberately framing...

On Apr 11, 5:39 pm, "J.D. Walker" wrote: http://gambit.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/united-states-chess-federation-executive-board-member-resigns/ -- Cordially, Rev. J.D. Walker, MsD, U.C. Good. Wonderful. Now that The New York Times has written it, it must be true!!!

What is the best way to have two deep/multiprocessor computer chess programs play each other at their respective optimal playing level and processor allotment? In other words, what various consumer-level hardware configurations are there for playing the best AND fastest chess game possible? Can you go any higher than 8 processors per program at the consumer level (easily available or...

Help bot is now at Top at GetClub Chess. He Won: 346 and Lost: 25 and has got Highest Rating of 1528. Chess Played at: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html Any there one who can beat "Help Bot"s Record??? He played all games without taking help from any Computer and beat records of all players and reached the Top Ranking.

Since you have watched Ivan vs GC , and now we are playing again so you can watch the game ...These two computers are pretty even and you play GC all the time , win some and lose some ... How about playing a future game vs Ivan ? We can just do it here like Sanny and i are doing .....How about it ? You would have more time to study the game too because we would only move one or two times a...

Or have you just been busy ?

On Apr 1, 8:32 am, (Sam Sloan) wrote: It has been announced on the Internet this morning that SusanPolgar is resigning all her positions in chess and moving back toHungary. http://www.chessville.com/misc/PolgarQuits.htm That would end the need for a recall. The problem is that today is April Fools Day. We will have to wait until tomorrow to find out whether...

I invented GRAND CHESS But later found the Name is already taken by someone else Learn about Grand Chess http://www.getclub.com/Show/view.php?best=Discussion&itemid=18 It increases the Size of Board to 16x16. With Each piece doubled as well as board size doubled.

Now, Joel Channing has posted to the USCF Issues Forum a statement that he resigns effective immediately if the vote to cancel the "Internet Insurance" passes. The problem with this is that at every meeting while I was on the board, Channing said that he was considering resigning. This is clearly part of his bullying tactics, saying "If you don't do things my way, I am taking my ball and...