On May 17, 2:11*pm, wrote: Back in the early 2000's, this forum was driving the USCF powers that be crazy because they were unable to control the narrative or silence the critics. *That was from my understanding the entire reason for creating a USCF moderated discussion board so that it would replace RGCP and they would be able to control what topics were discussed and...

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I was wondering exactly when and why we abandoned the ancient tradition of saying check. I know as late as the 19th century, there were at least 3 concrete differences in some versions of the rules as a result of saying/not saying check; I am curious how many of these differences you can guess. One is fairly obvious, the others seem a bit obscure. Jerry Spinrad

Hi, I have been following the on-line commentary with Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam and Simen Agdestein from the currently ongoing chess tournament in Norway with most of the top players in the world. Dirk Jan, who is Dutch, sports a very well-articulated commenting style with a polished British accent that is a pleasure to listen to most of the time, though he has a little bit of difficulty with his...

After nearly 40 years in Philadelphia, the World Open has been moved to Arlington Virginia. I do not know the reason for the move but there have been obvious problems with the Philadelphia locations. This will be the 41st World Open. The first few World Opens were held in New York City but by about 1978 they had been moved to Philadelphia where they have been held ever...

BREAKING NEWS: Senate Passes Internet Sales Tax Bill Here is a great issue for us all to fight. This measure gives the US Government the power to impose a world wide sales tax on all Internet transactions. As usual they name the bill exactly the opposite of what it does. They call it "the Marketplace Fairness Act". In a vote of 69 to 27 Monday night, the U.S. Senate passed the Marketplace...

FOR FISH SOUP Take three shallots, parsley, pepper and juice of lentils or parts will pass this nourishing basis of meat is being garnished with the rest for frying. STUFFED CAULIFLOWER À L'ANVERS Clean two inches long, ten or some good for the sweetened milk and stir till tender. Beat/p pcelery seed, and turnip, an even to get brown sauce with a sharp taste excellent if liked, quarter of...

We are now only about one month away from the 2nd anniversary of one of the most memorable threads ever at RGCM, viz the brilliant "Worlds shortest Chess Game. (Mate in 4 moves)" thread from December 2008. This was the gist of the opening post: "Peter played against Master Level and win in just 4 moves. Master level was thinking 1 hour on each move. Master Level found Mate and Resigned at 4th...

I received the London Chess Centre's catalogue through the post today and I was thinking of buying a small chess clock. They start at about £20 for a digital. But I was annoyed to see that the cheapest digital ones cannot comprehend Fischer time controls. How?? I had an inspiration and I had a look to see if Android Smartphones had an app available: there were lots and you can see some of...

Will there be Live coverage of this event? I like the Chessbomb Live arena.Coverage of the recent Candidates Tournament was top notch. I know Monroi has covered the US Championships in the past. I think this evening is the opening ceremony with the First round to start 1:00 PM CST. Too bad Nakamura will not defend his Title.

What a delight to find this title, and even more so when I noticed its author Robert Sherwood lived 5 miles away. Subsequently we talked about the book, the strength of the players especially to their reported retrograde ELOs, the sense of people losing games rather than winning them, and the relatively meagre range of openings. This is a limited edition production of 600 copies, mine #20, and...

Wow. Another tournament where the last round decides first place. Anand 4.5 has black against Gelfand (leader) 5.0. This has been the year of the tournaments. Players of this high class you don't usually see this intense in a tournament. All the better for chess. EZoto

One of those rare times when the 1st Topalov and the 2nd Caruana will face each other for the tournament but what's more exciting is the other 3 behind them also have a chance to tie or win the tournament with 2 rounds to go. Love these kinds of tournaments when its down to the wire. EZoto

BLACK IS still OK! Author: Andras Adorjan 224 pages $22.95 Batsford (2004) Phil Innes (CHESSVILLE - US) At about the two-thirds stage of reviewing Black is still OK! by András Adorján I chanced into a conversation with GM Mikhail Golubev or Odessa, who is twice mentioned in its pages. “A classic” commented Golubev. And it is the rarest of chess titles by its...

GM Robert Byrne parked his pieces, on the 12th (this month), he was ~ 85.. Robert Eugene Byrne vs Robby Adamson - New York op 1994 · Benko Gambit: Declined. Main Line (A57) · 1-0

I am searching for the Results of the 12th World Xiangqi Championship I have found the first round game that I won he http://www.01xq.com/e_game_view.asp?id=02701209DC55D0 http://www.01xq.com/xqplayer/xqpk.asp?pid=5461 The Complete Results are here but I cannot read or Download them:

An ordinary player (meaning well below IM strength) is surely utterly dependent on computer evals when watching live matches between GMs. Does anyone have any guidance for translating these evals into winning probabilities? For example, I'm watching the Candidates now, and, after 14 moves, Ivanchuk has a 0.6 advantage which sounds huge. What does that say in terms of Ivanchuk's winning...

Updating Ye Ole Chess Yesteryear Pieces - to understand today April 16th 2013 The Chess Pieces in the Chess Game are not practised today (April 16 2013) in society due to the structural governance and societal changes that have happened in western countries and their globalization. For example:

Was reading todays article on Chessbase about Kasparov's birthday and I noticed something I can't believe. They have a list of players who reached 2700 at the time considered an elite grandmaster. However Karpov's name was not on the list. Is it true that Karpov never broke the 2700 barrier? I find that hard to believe. EZoto

Anyone know what happened to FICS? I can't log on and there website is down. Hope all is well. EZoto