Don Schultz has confirmed to me that Bill Goichberg has indeed signed a $50,000 sponsorship package to hold the 2007 US Championship in Stillwater, Oklahoma in exchange for a seat on the board for Jim Berry. I oppose this deal. Donna Alarie, Beatriz Marinello, Joe Lux, Mike Goodall and Leroy Dubeck also reject this deal. Sam Sloan

Read more, write less. Donna supports my candidacy. She said so in the USCF forum. Quit lying. I'm a big shot board member and you're banned. She also supports Mike Goodall, Don Schultz and Joe Lux. This slate will win. Sam Sloan

Donna Alarie has just joined my group after Leroy Dubeck asked her to. Donna refused to endorse Randy Bauer. Her job is to help Beatriz Marinello make sure that SP is not elected. We need to push our slate of Schultz, Goodall, Lux and me through. Sam Sloan

Donna Alarie has changed her mind about me. She thinks I'm doing a great job and she doesn't want to recall me anymore. I successfully got rid of Tanner and the AF4C and now Donna is helping me get rid of SP. She finally realizes that I'm good in what I do. I can't do this without the support from Leroy Dubeck, Beatriz Marinello and Don Schultz. Sam Sloan

In order to be able to look-up a chess position in an EG table base, the indexing scheme must ensure that each position is translated into a unique number. The indexing scheme largely determines the size of the EGTB files, so the number of illegal positions that an indexing scheme allows should therefore be kept to a minimum. I can think of an indexing scheme that allows absolutely NO...

You are splitting hairs here. Certainly anybody reading these postings by Bill Goichberg would reasonably conclude that neither Polgar nor Truong were paid anything at all. Now, we finally figure out that when Bill Goichberg stated that Truong was paid very little, he is referring to Truong individually, not Truong as the "business manager" (as he calls himself) of Susan Polgar. I think that...

Just trying to print a game using Fritz 10 for the first time. Got gibberish. Fired up Fritz 9 and printed the game OK. Any ideas? Thanks. locksley

As hundreds or even thousands of men line up to take paternity tests to establish that they are the father of Anna Nicole Smith's Baby, I wish to establish that I am the real father. I ****ed her in every position possible. She was a horny and kinky bitch. Other men who claim that they are the real father are invited to join this group. At least we can share our experiences with Anna...

Who's this ****** Sam Sloan. Did he really sleep with Anny Nicole Smith or is he just another wannabe?

Hi all impossible to have chessassistant working under windows vista. Have you the same problem? thx

January 21, 2007 Chess Prominent Trainer Retreats From Claim He Held Title By DYLAN LOEB McCLAIN Michael Khodarkovsky is a prominent trainer and coach, and president of the Kasparov Chess Foundation. But is he, as he has claimed, an international master? No, according to the World Chess Federation, and now he is backing off the claim.

Is Fritz Full Analysis or Blunder Check better? I now have Fritz 10. It will analyze your games for you. There are two types of analysis: Full Analysis and Blunder Check. Neither are perfect. For example, say in a position there are two choices: One is to win more material in a complex position. The other is to trade queens and enter an elementary won endgame. The human player will trade...

Hi, I released a new version of Scid (a chess database program) at http://prolinux.free.fr/scid/ Since my last annoucement here, I added more than 20.000 exercises (most mates in N moves, all generated by myself from real games) and native UCI engine support. Enhancements from original Scid are detailed here : http://prolinux.free.fr/scid/scid_newfeatures.html

I've made a new release of ChessDB http://chessdb.sourceforge.net/ the chess database which is an enhanced version of Scid. The interface to The Week in Chess (TWIC) is much improved - downloading the games each week in very easy indeed now. (There is support for an HTTP proxy server in case you need it)

What's the best way of implementing a multi-node tree in C++? What I'm trying to do is traverse a tree of possible chess moves given an intial position (at the root of the tree). Since every chess position has around 30 moves, it would mean every node of the tree would have 30 branches (on average), which in turn themselves would average about 30 branches each. I can think of a variety of ways...

Want to buy Hiarcs but it has Fritz 9 interface. I've had Fritz 8 for 2 years and it has more bugs than an ice cream cone melted on the sidewalk. Its so buggy , and to me not straightforward , that I rarely use it. No fun. Is Fritz 9 any better ( can't be worse ) ? Is there any way to run the Hiracs engine with a UCI interface such as Arena ?

Due to problems with the TLA, I am posting information about this tournament in the online chess forums. Please forgive the "off topic" nature of this post. The Hackettstown, NJ Chess Club's premier event, the Spring Round Robin, begins this Monday, February 12, at 7:30 pm. Registration begins at 7 PM in the Hackettstown Community Center, Hackettstown, NJ. E.F. = $14 for approximately 12...

Hi, I purchased Fritz 10 and Rybka 2.2. Rybka keeps beating Fritz 10 and I thought that Fritz 10 was suppose to be the strongest software program. Is there a setting in Fritz 10 to make it play stronger or is it just that Rybka 2.2 is stronger? Any help would be appreicated.

Like everyone else, I have no idea who Sam Sloan is, why he posts here, what his aims are, or if he is impersonating the REAL Sam Sloan. The world awaits clarification.

i would use scid with craft as engine. i can't set up scid to say to crafty to use the TBs. can you help me. thanks. Pier