Bauer Fails Again! Bauer's Man, Tom Vilsack, has just dropped out of the race for US President Bauer has worked for Tom Vilsack for years, even giving him chess lessons, but support by Bauer was not enough to win so Vilsack has dropped out of the race for US President. So, it looks like we will not have a chess player in the White House after all, unless another one runs.

Hello everybody, we are about to publish an Italian translation of Alekhine's New York 1927 tournament book. We have been looking for photographs from that event but found very few (just two actually, kindly donated by the Marshall Chess Club in New York). I was wondering if anyone from the international chess community could provide us with some interesting material from that tournament...

Carlsen just beat Topalov and Aronian defeats Anand!

Polgar and Truong are claiming the right to be paid these large amounts of money on the basis of verbal agreements with Frank Niro while Niro was Executive Director. However, oral contracts are not valid with corporations unless they are confirmed in writing. I will give one example from the stock market, since I worked in the stock market for years.

This is an update for the message below: News is very fluid, but currently Jessie is lead story on Radio 5 tomorrow am, with about 14 minutes of recording being played over 3 slots at 6.05, 7.05 and 8.05. It'll go out again on Radio 4 'Today', Radio 1 and possibly BBC TV News, and will be on their website. They also have comments from NSPCC and CPS. Solicitors for Ian Gilbert, Jessie's estranged...

Excessive Moderation by the Moderator I am really outraged by what has just happened. The moderator at USCF Forums has three times removed a perfectly legitimate posting by me which criticized the move to Crossville and the current state of financial affairs in Crossville. I suspect that the moderator is a member of the USCF staff in Crossville. Otherwise, there is no possible reason why the...

A very important point. On January 8, 2007, Jerry Hanken, who regularly writes for Chess Life, announced on the USCF website that the USCF had made a deal with Merrill Lynch to sponsor the US Championship. In fact, no such deal had been made nor was the USCF engaged in any negotiations with Merrill, Lynch. A few days later, word came that the actual proposed sponsor with whom

Is it possible to watch the games live online.I tried ICC and could not get a connection.If anyone has the coverage please update this newsgroup,it would be greatly appreciated. E-JAY

Anyone with information about this weekend's US Amateur Team Events, please post information and results. I'd like to know most of all who won, but also interested in number of people attending and any other interesting details. Thanks! I'm sure others would like to know also!

Disastrous Results of the Move to Crossville The move to Crossville has proven to be a financial disaster. On just one item alone, employee salaries and benefits, the USCF is spending around $200,000 more per year on employee costs than it spent in New Windsor. Perhaps more importantly, the new employees are more likely to make mistakes, such as all the problems and errors in the TLAs which...

This Friday, February 23, BBC Radio 5 will be broadcasting an exclusive interview with Angela Gilbert, the mother of Jessie Gilbert, who died in tragic circumstances in July last year. Angela Gilbert is not a chess player and will be focusing more on Jessie the person and her daughter than on Jessie the player but all chess players will find this programme of interest.

Protected Candidates About Whom Criticism is Not Allowed There are certain candidates for election about whom criticism on http://www.uschess.org/forums is not allowed. Any remarks critical of these candidates will be immediately deleted by the moderators. On the other hand, there are other candidates about whom the most vile accusations are allowed. Posters can say anything, no matter how...

Dear All: Here are the facts about the "award." Moments before the start of the round of the U.S. Team Tournament, Leroy Dubeck showed me the Sam Sloan award and I cracked up because of its symbolism (and since it had a candle illuminating it!) I could hardly stop laughing, considering the whole thing a lark. He then asked if I would present it. Since I am constantly asked at my University and...

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I'm trying to come up with a list of reasons why we lose at chess, which is something approaching comprehensive while remaining short enough to be manageable. I have examined the book of the same title by Tim Harding, the book about chess mistakes by Andrew Soltis and the long grim catalogue of disasters which comprise my own games. The list is probably doing very well at being...

Interesting blog Ken. Not sure what it has to do with chess though. JMR "KK" wrote in message news:QdeBh.1009381$1T2.968021@pd7urf2no... http://hanger36.blogspot.com/2007/02/hovercraft-service.html - The 15km

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I've read a lot of conflicting advice about what type of practice is good for the "class level" slow time control tournament player. One camp says that playing blitz is harmful because it leads to superficial play and there is no opportunity to practice deep analysis. Another camp says that winning players owe some of their success to blitz play, as blitz allows you to play many, many games,...

I should feel bad about picking on a retard like Rob. But I don't. JMR

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