Elo's book, The Rating of Chess Players, Past and Present, is reprinted today. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891277 Professor Elo's book, long out of print and almost impossible to obtain, has just been reprinted. Sam Sloan

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.

"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."

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

Bill Goichberg has been circulating a "new plan". Essentially, his new plan calls for a reinstatement of the "no magazine membership". Regular dues for those who want the magazine will be $42. Those who do not want the magazine will only have to pay $29. In the fiscal year ending May 30, 2008, three weeks from today, the USCF will have lost $300,000. Bill Goichberg seems to think that this...

Say, I want to buy a Chess Program where will I search for them? I am asking this Question because I want to know where do people go to buy Chess Programs. Then I will Sell GetClub Chess over all those places. I went to amazon.com and found lots Chess Program were sold there. I wanted to sell GetClub Chess. But it asked me to search items from a list and I found all Chess Programs Listed there...

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

I came across this humorous article from an old Harper’s Weekly newspaper. 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 www.rookhouse.com

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.

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.

THE BOBBY FISCHER THAT WE LOVED by GM Larry Evans (Chess Life, March 2008) During the time when bogus rationales were discussed at length in a vain attempt to "justify" the multitude of Fischer demands, Larry Evans wrote a nice piece pointing out that they were not fair, and Chess Lies published it. That was too much "sunlight" for Mr. Fischer to handle. -- Greg Kennedy

I found 5 Million Copies of Chess Master has been Sold and it Costs $19.95. So ChessMaster Creator has earned $100 Million Dollars. Look he http://www.game-remakes.com/game.php?id=126 Chess Master Sold 5 Million Copies for $19.95 each !!! How much good is ChessMaster to GetClub?

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)

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...

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.

Despite playing so good game GetClub was unable to stop TuringEngine bring its Queen. Normal Level which thinks for 1-2 min was unable to win. There were lot of tactics in this game GetClub managed to bring equal position. But in the end TuringEngine advanced its pawns and get Queen. Game Played between turingengine and normal at GetClub.com

A week back Zebediah used to win in 20-30 moves but now the GetClubs game was a bit improved now Zebediah takes 35 moves to win against the Advance Level. If you can spot any mistake in GetClubs game I can improve it further. Please see the game and let me know which were the moves that were wrong. Advance Level thinks for 30 min/ move So it is very difficult for me

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

This is a philosophical piece for the most part meant to give thought to where things can head, and why. I will acknowledge that this is potentially heresy to those who live and die FIDE chess and consider it handed down from the divine as some immutable set of rules that is meant to last FOREVER. It is a piece to ponder, refute, consider insane, or thought of value. I am not going to lay out...