I've played chess seriously since I was a teenager, but when I rediscovered backgammon a few years back, I realized that it is the superior game at present, at least for me. The "luck" factor is meaningless in the long term, and that is what matters. One does not need to know all kinds of "technical" information, as one does for high level chess. Duncan Suttles talked about this in an...

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Although the Asian Games date back to 1951, where the premier edition took place in India, it is only recently when chess was recognized as a full-right member of the games. There were two individual rapid tournaments scheduled separately for men and women along with a mixed team tournament with classical time control. (...) Read more at http://www.olimpbase.org

Nomorechess once said me that he is unable to beat Master Level only because it takes long time. Now as the time has been improved, Master level always makes moves in 1-3 minute. Nomorechess has beaten Master Level Thrice. Here are the Recorded games by Nomorechess http://www.getclub.com/cc/showgame.php?num=10&user=nomorechess I was thinking Nomorechess will be beaten by Master Level but it do...

Randy Bauer lied again. Susan Polgar has never run or organized a scholastic tournament. Susan Polgar has never taught a regular chess class in a school. Susan Polgar never even went to school herself. Susan Polgar has had no involvement with scholastic chess except for a few publicity appearances for which she was highly paid and a few recent scholastic tournaments in which she has entered her...

Another bug: A little while back I had a game in which, upon resuming, my castled position was half-undone, the Rook reverting to its original square. I worked around this by moving my King up, out of the way, and this slowed my attack on the opposite wing down a bit. Annoying, but no biggie. Now I am playing a very similar game, a Benoni again, and the precise same problem has occurred:...

Anyone tried playing on Infinia ? Is it easy to find 1-minute lightning games there ? I thought of joining but don't like the idea of installing the client software only to find that it is yet another site that leaves much to be desired. Is this the case ? Is Infinia user-friendly ? Thanks for your feedback.

IN THE MATTER OF: THE SECURITIES ACT - and - IN THE MATTER OF: DJORDJE "GEORGE" VLAOVIC REASONS FOR DECISION OF THE MANITOBA SECURITIES COMMISSION

A free chess database 'ChessDB' http://chessdb.sourceforge.net/ which is follow-on from the excellent Scid: http://scid.sourceforge.net/ has the following few lines in English in a menu where one sets up some colours:

cbseries wrote: ChessDB - a free Chess Database http://chessdb.sourceforge.net/ See the "Changes" page on the site. Especially the entry "A number of things could be done to improve ChessDB. Would anyone like to volunteer to do any of the following?".

I don't mean to knock Soltis, whose articles I enjoy, but I am curious as to how he gets a sequence of blindfold records as 3,8,10,12,16,22,23,25,29,32,34. For another list, Fireside Book of Chess gives a bit more substantiation of its claims: 3 (Philidor) 4,5,7,10,15 (Paulsen) 16 (Blackburne,Zukertort) 17,20,21,22 (Pillsbury

Back in October I placed an order for one of their gothic chess sets. I paid, but never received it. I sent 4 emails. First said I would get it soon. Next 3 were ignored and last by me was a request for refund (ignored). These are the guys behind the Karpov-Fischer gothic chess match. Think they will pay the winner?

http://tinyurl.com/yny8zh I learned to play chess with my cousin on a set like that back in '85 (we were 10 years old and the set belonged to our grandmother). A few months later when I entered the 5th grade, my teacher was also the chess coach and he had a bunch of sets like that kicking around the room for kids to play during breaks and such (he had a wooden Drueke set that we could only use...

ANOTHER PREDICTION CAME TRUE When editor Dan Lucas cancelled Evans On Chess he said the reason was Chess Life no longer needed a question and answer column. Here is a posting that I placed online last June. Lo and behold, the December 2006 issue of Chess Life has a Q&A column conducted by GM Joel Benjamin. As I predicted. From: - view profile Date: Sun, Jun 11 2006 5:19 pm

"Game in progress"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 O-O 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. Qxc3 d6 7. f3 c5 8. dxc5 dxc5 9. Nh3 Nc6 10. Nf2 e5 11. e3 Bf5 12. Be2 a5 13. b3 Qe7 14. Bd1 Rfd8 15. Bd2 Nd7 16. O-O a4 17. b4 Nb6 18. Be1 Be6 19. Be2 Rdc8 20. Ne4 cxb4 21. axb4 f5 22. Ng3 f4 23. exf4 Nd4 24. fxe5 Nxe2+ 25. Nxe2 Bxc4 26. Qe3 Nd5 27. Qe4 Nxb4 28. Kh1 Nd3 29. Bc3 b5 30. Ng3 Nc5 31. Qg4 Qe6 32. Nf5...

When I was elected to the board, she was kissing my ass to join her side since she no longer has any supporter on the board. Now she double crossed me and ****ed me up good. She doesn't want to endorse me for the next 4 years. What a ****ing bitch! And I thought I could trust a dyke! Robert Tanner got what he deserves by ****ing this bull dyke at the national scholastic tournament. Sam Sloan

For those of you who like to play on Yahoo and review your games later, I have taken the Yahoo2PGN converter found on the web, fixed a few bugs, and posted it here http://www.douglassdavis.com/pgnchess2006/ If you use it and have any problems or suggestions, let me know. --

How to Stop a Runner in Pogo Chess http://www.sharewareisland.com/stop.asp

Here are some chess puzzles taken from recent strong tournaments. All puzzles are 'White to move and win' except where noted. a) http://www.wtharvey.com/k2006a.png Magnus Carlsen vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Cap d'Agde, 2006 1r6/8/Q4ppk/3p3p/1P1N1q1P/2PB4/6K1/8 w - - 0 1 b) http://www.wtharvey.com/k2006b.png Alexey Dreev vs Bojan Kurajica, Solin,...

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