There will be a live announcement about FISCHER-KARPOV by guest Ed Trice on my "Ask the Renaissance Show" Thursday Oct 12 at 9-10 PM. Due to the special nature of this announcement, the ICC is making this show available to EVERYONE, and not just ICC members (i.e., "Guests" can listen this week). To listen to the show go to www.chess.fm and click on the Dan Heisman show. Ed Trice is the inventor...

Round 4 at the Essent tournament: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3 O-O 9. h3 Nb8 10. d4 Nbd7 11. Nbd2 Bb7 12. Bc2 Re8 13. a4 Bf8 14. Bd3 c6 15. Rb1 Qc7 16. Qc2 g6 17. axb5 axb5 18. dxe5 dxe5 19. Nb3 Reb8 20. c4 bxc4 21. Bxc4 Ba6 22. Nbd2 Nc5 23. Bxa6 Rxa6 24. Nc4 Nfd7 25. Rd1 Ne6 26. Be3 Raa8 27.

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KIRSAN ILYUMZHINOV QUOTED AT CHESSBASE "All the decisions taken during the match are legally proper, which is confirmed by the firm of attorneys cooperating with FIDE for more than ten years since I became a president. They are lawyers of International Sports Arbitration Court. This is why FIDE always wins in courts - all our decisions are based on juridical documents, and not...

Anybody know what is going on with FICS? Haven't been able to reach the server in several days. What gives?

On Oct 25, 12:37 pm, "Inconnux" wrote: Some of these Reinfeld titles were later combined into a single book, "The Complete Chess Course from Beginning to Winning Chess, A Comprehensive Yet Simplified Home Study Chess Course. Eight Books in One" (1959). The similarity between this online offer and Reinfeld's books seems suspiciously more than mere...

I just made a fascinating Chess-Mathematical discovery, though the proof of it would be far too long and abstruse to post here. So, I'll just float it out there, for what it's worth.... We often see that the Bishop and the Knight are valued at 3 points, if the Pawn is valued a 1 point. (Of course, such static evaluations are of limited value, since the "real" value of the pieces depends upon...

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1008419 R Byrne v Bobby Fischer I can't see the winning combination. What's the winning line after 21... Qd7? As white, I'd play 22. Qf2. What would you do as black?

I wonder if anyone else is having trouble logging on to FICS? http://www.freechess.org/ I have tried simply accessing the site from home, work, and two public libraries: I simply get an error screen. From the FireFox browser, this is what it says: ===

So, now that ex-FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov has lost his first two games in the tournament at Holland this week, will his manager Silvio Danailov claim that both of his opponents (Mamedyarov in Round 1 and Judit Polgar in Round 2) were using computer assistance? Just wondering ;-)

Leadership passes into empire; Empire begets insolence; Insolence bring ruin. /William Carlos Williams I would like to comment on two aspect of recent postings by board member Sam Sloan. During the election his supporters hoped he would bring some glasnöst to the boardroom which would air our futures in a healthy way. But I note that there has been a certain concentration over past...

Those who have followed Ilymzhinov's attmepts to make his town of Elista into Chess City, should know that Ilymzhinov is following the text of the most famous Russian satire novel Twelve Chairs, written in the 1920s. In one episode, the main hero, a brilliant swiddler Ostap Bender, who needs money desperately, pretends to be a chess grandmaster and gives a paid lecture to the local chess...

Gruppen, --I've digested the first installment of the 'tube' show. I feel worse! clearly Bob is the master of the rusque Spass. but to go to the end is history. We know Bob destroyed Boris - so what? I'm just peeing in the sink now, but I see Bob's wearing the same sort of mustard yellow shirt as me plus (+) a tie. I'm not Bobby by a long shot, he looks good though over there in Greenland...

Hi VK.. ---I rememeber recently a 12 chair scenario with Vlod Bestrap being the main contender. I have not got time to write to this Russian satire, but I want to point out to you that in my young years I read ALL the Russian authors. I'm also an advocate of Marc Chagall & Wassily Kandinsky, Who I'm Sure you will realise are strong Russian artists. To me this Thor Bendstrap character does not...

Why is FICS not working? Anyone know?

Mamedyarov defeated Topalov in round 1.of the Essent tournament. Polgar beat I. Sokolov in this 4-player event.

Now ICC has stopped guests using the server, I want to create a trail account, then when it expires, create a second one. (I am registered BTW) But those trial expires after a week or two. Does anyone know how ICC know how a particular computer has had a trial recently? I've tried looking for blitzin in the registry on my XP box and note there are plenty of references to it after the program...

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:09:22 -0400, "StanB" wrote: wrote in message ... The following candidates would bring a great deal to the Executive Board:

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On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 20:35:16 GMT, Philip Cavanagh wrote: KRCH wrote: 9.3- FISCHER birthday Join open FISCHERANDOM game on www.KramnikChess.narod.ru/Fischer.html aCk!!! I fergot it was Fischer's B-Day (I was down in Vegas watching the