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Marshall Chess Club 23 West Tenth Street New York, NY 10011 June 19, 2007 For Immediate Release New Marshall Chess Club President

Hi, What is the average salary that chess professionals make like GMs and IMs? I keep seeing a ton of GMs play at weekend swiss events and also several players play international in tournaments in Europe and Russia. A lot of them are the same players too. So what kind of salary are they making from their winning each year?

Anybody know what happened to that TASC chess computer that was on ebay? I was watching it and now it is gone? The seller had zero feedback so it seemed a bit risky. EZoto

I thought for sure he would qualify but Gelfand was very well prepared for him so congrats to Gelfand. Hard to believe that Kamsky didn't know about ...d5! in that variation of the sicilian Rossolimo. I still believe Rublevsky will pull it off. Don't know if Shirov can do it again. EZoto

I have that on my calendar ,, Anyone here have any info on it ?

Susan Polgar writes today at http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2007/06/fighting-for-chess.html : "There are plenty more outrageous fabrications simply to confuse the USCF members. Some even challenged how many women's world championships I won or how many national championships my husband has won." OK. So tell us: How many woman's world championships have you won and how many national...

Because my provider made a little mistake and annulled my entire account, my website Chess Curiosities and my regular email address have been non-existant from Friday 18:00 to Monday 10:00 (Dutch time.) All is in working order again: http://www.timkrabbe.nl/chess/chess.html or http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess/chess.html

You obviously know nothing, zero, about the playing career of Zsuzsa Polgar. She NEVER won the Woman's Junior Championship because she refused to play in any woman's tournament. This fact was well known to everybody in the world except for, apparently, you. I got her into the Overall World Junior Championship and I got her sister Judit into the World Championship for Boys by mailing a letter to...

What is the difference between ply and depth in discussing computer chess program. I understand ply to be the number of 1/2 moves ahead that are searched. Depth ???

A study book I have by Bondarenko cites this "365" book - it's publication date was 1968, and it lists the book at "365 Auswahlte(sic) Endspiele," with a *1960* publication date and "Heidelberg" as the city of issue. I would contend this makes it likely that the book was probably issued by Rudi Schmaus - his chess bookstore and publishing venture were both located there. I don't know copyright...

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Lingerie is a term for women's fashion underwear. It derives from the French word 'lin' for linen. While the term in the French language applies to all underwears for either sex, in English it is applied only to those women's underwears designed to be visually appealing or erotic, typically incorporating materials such as nylon (nylon tricot), polyester, satin, lace and/or silk, and not applied...

Hi, currently I read "chess tactic for advanced player" from Averbakh and I like the book very much because it tries to break down the combinations and tactic patterns into elementary atoms. So it does not only present examples and exercises but develops a theory of chess tactic. Who knows other books about chess tactic which are written in the same manner ? Robert

THE BEATLES CAUSED THE DISINTEGRATION OF MANKIND HIGH COURT (The Five Judges) (Judge T., Judge B., Judge S., Judge M. and Judge K.) 1st VERDICT "The Beatles caused the disintegration of mankind"

I have no idea .. Is the ladies champion of today a Chinese lady ?

It is odd to find such a quality set, mass produced and available to a large number of the public. Designed by Kasparov it says on the box, hard to believe. http://ventura.com.au/product_view.asp?pid=641

The letter on the Susan Polgar Blogspot states: Dear Mr. Barber: This letter confirms that Texas Tech University agrees to be the sponsor of the Denker and Polgar Invitational Chess Tournaments in 2007. Texas Tech will offer two academic scholarships which cover all tuition and fees, one for the winner of each tournament....

PAUL TRUONG: Happy To Be A USCF Member BY RANDALL HOUGH Assistant Editor, Chess Life Paul Truong is a survivor. And although he would like to say that his love for chess helped to sustain him during two hellish weeks in early 1979 aboard a crowded, leaky, wooden refugee boat -- it would be untrue.

Here are some chess puzzles taken from Nimzo-Indian 4.e3 c5 miniatures (ECO E41). It's White to move and win except where noted. a) http://www.wtharvey.com/e41ab.png Rusakov vs Siwienkow, corr., 1991 4rr1k/pp3pp1/1q1p1n2/6N1/2P2Pb1/2Q5/PB4PP/1B3R1K w - - 0 1 b) http://www.wtharvey.com/e41ae.png Marcelo Tempone vs Facundo Quiroga, Buenos Aires,...