Read the article at http://midaschess.blogspot.com/ and take our poll "Who is the strongest chess player nowadays?" at http://www.messaggeroscacchi.it/public/sondaggio/vota.php . Best wishes! FM Dario Mione

I believe that most players reach their peak strength at age 30, and then remain relatively stable for the next 20-30 years with their ratings rarely going up or down more than 50 points. Thus if you see an across-the-board drop of all players in the 30--50 age group of 100 to 150 points, you know that something is wrong. On the other hand there is strong reason to believe that today's kids are...

1. Rollout 24/20 6/5 Eq.: -0.1734 0.4653 0.0915 0.0033 - 0.5347 0.1411 0.0045 CL -0.1201 CF -0.1734 Full cubeful rollout with var.redn. 10368 games, Mersenne Twister dice gen. with seed 1059746476 and quasi-random dice Play: 2-ply cubeful prune keep the first 0 0-ply moves and up to 12 more moves within equity 0.16

You can find it at http://midaschess.blogspot.com. Hope you will enjoy! Best wishes FM Dario Mione

Does the FBI Have Jurisdiction to Investigate USCF Election Fraud? The USCF is a 501c4 corporation and 501c4 is a federal statute. This election is filled with outrageous fraud, including two different Fake Sam Sloan's posting under my name and a new entity judgmental @ clerk.com making all sorts of outrageously false statements about me, such as repeatedly claiming that I am a child molester,...

Sam Loyd's Cyclopedia of 5,000 Puzzles Tricks & Conundrums with Answers has been reprinted today !!!! http://www.amazon.com/Cyclopedia-Puzzles-tricks-Conundrums-Answers/dp/0923891781/ Originally published in 1914, many of the individual puzzles in this book have been reprinted and republished many times, but this is the first time the complete 384 page book with ALL of the diagrams and drawings...

I've just bought this. I have a couple of questions. Is the training option the option you play when you just want a quick game? Rating mode seems to not be the kind of option you want if you are playing quickly since it can damage your rating. Tournament also seems to be if you want to play a succession of games. If you just want a game you use training. Seems a strange name for it ? Why...

As regular readers of this group are aware, there has been some discussion here of a post last month by Phil Innes, that claimed to present statistics on draw rates in world championship games. As I pointed out then, these statistics were wildly inaccurate. The source Innes cited for these stats was "Black Is Still OK" (Batsford, 2004) by GM Andras Adorjan. Curious as to whether the bogus stats...

Sam Loyd (1841-1911) was the all time greatest inventor and developer of puzzles. He is described by Martin Gardner, the author of the "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American, as "America's greatest puzzlist and an authentic American genius". His fame is world wide and books of his puzzles have been published in Russian and other languages. Sam Loyd's Cyclopedia of 5,000 Puzzles...

I heard a lot of skipy news about GetClub. I am assured those who play at GetClub like it a lot. While Those who have not played are the only once who are out raged. Here is the Current Story about GetClub Chess. http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html 1. Master Level is now not so easy. It took Chess_Freak 41 moves to win it.

"The Middle Game of Go", long out of print, has just been reprinted. It is available on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0923891773/ This is the third of a three part series on go by Sakata Eio. The other two have also been recently reprinted and are available at: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0923891757/ http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0923891765/

Chess Players Rule! You make excellent executive decisions, relish complexity, and foresee what is most crucial and relevant. We, the devoted, daring, and driven members of the Exposition Park Chess Club http://chess.expoparkla.com/] consider you a kindred spirit. We warmly invite your participation in our chess club. This coming first Sunday of the month, April 1st, 2007, will...

Dismantling Putin 19 March 2007 {HRI 20070319-V1.4} {FFP draft 20070319-V1.4} (Version 1.4 on 28 March 2007)

At 02:53 PM 10/21/2006 EDT, wrote: Do we have any information in the USCF website about the World Youth Championships? Good question !!!! It has been pointed out by Beatriz that although the USCF has sponsored a delegation to the World Youth Championships in Batumi, Georgia, there is no information on the USCF website about this event.

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Gruppen, Is GM Adjoran a meritricious individual or not? Is 'merit' persay a _value_ of any worth? I think not. It was 'bot' who applied the sobriquet "merit" to the unfortunate GM. Personally I abdjure the term (merit) smacks of elitism, snobbism - in my view. Bad word - in effect. Bit too English public-school - what? Well gruppe, I'd like each & everyone of you to reflect on this *'merit'*...

Inconnux = Jason Lohner = Fetal Alcohol effects baby = 1311 chess rating http://www.chess.ca/memberinfo.asp?CFCN=144557 Here he loses to someone even LOWER rated than he is: http://members.shaw.ca/winnipeg_chess/Retard_vs_Retard.htm And check out this game: http://members.shaw.ca/winnipeg_chess/1300_Jamboree.htm Notice the obvious blunder on move 35 that a blind inebriate wouldn't

Looks like we're in the throes of some middlegame tension. He who's isp pulls the plug first....loses! By the way, there was some discussion of the rating differences between Canadians and americans. Most people already know (including most americans) that the uscf ratings are inflated compared to their CFC counterparts, with very few exceptions. From my experience, I had the opportunity to...

Thanks to all in this newsgroup for providing me a couple of months of diversion. I recently came back to organized chess after several years away, and I'd hoped that this group would be discussing personalities, strategies, tactics, the history of the game, etc. You know, the kind of thing that keeps us interested over the long haul when studying endgames gets pretty dry. Instead I found...

If you love chess and want to learn the secrets of winning more games faster and in less moves than before, then 101 Chess Strategies will show you more moves and combinations than you could ever imagine. It's not like any other book you've ever read on Chess Strategies Before. Simply, every section in the book is there because "you asked for it." Well, not "you" really. But from real live...