Joel Channing Talked a Better Game than He Played In Joel Channing's final interview, as reported in the New York Times, he said that since chess is a "zero-sum game" (in that there is always one winner and one looser) his efforts to make the USCF run like a business failed. http://gambit.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/united-states-chess-federation-executive-board-member-resigns/ That is not...

LEVEL FOUR SANCTION By a vote of 3 in favor and none opposed, the Moderation Committee is imposing a level four sanction on Sam Sloan 11115292 as a result of his posts: MQ:Where are Bauer, Berry, and Channing on the Finances? by samsloan on Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:53 am #89659 Do not make personal attacks or defamatory or disparaging comments about any person, group or company.

THIS CRAZY WORLD OF CHESS "Nowadays lawyers seem to be replacing good moves over the board." -- GM Larry Evans (page 71)

On Apr 9, 3:13 am, Gregory wrote: On Apr 9, 1:00 am, p944dc wrote: On Apr 8, 7:20 pm, Gregory wrote: It is sad that you are so caught up in an emotional bandwagon against a candidate that you are trying to remove that you can't see the logic of this. It is also sad that you are deliberately framing...

On Apr 11, 5:39 pm, "J.D. Walker" wrote: http://gambit.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/united-states-chess-federation-executive-board-member-resigns/ -- Cordially, Rev. J.D. Walker, MsD, U.C. Good. Wonderful. Now that The New York Times has written it, it must be true!!!

On FICS (www.FreeChess.org) I run "AIChess" and "DeepThoughtII" computer chess accounts... Both are very strong with minimum computer resources, outplaying anybody on LOW cpu priority setting running in background of Apache web server housed in an old "$20.00" 500MHz PIII computer... -tibor

Help bot is now at Top at GetClub Chess. He Won: 346 and Lost: 25 and has got Highest Rating of 1528. Chess Played at: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html Any there one who can beat "Help Bot"s Record??? He played all games without taking help from any Computer and beat records of all players and reached the Top Ranking.

....the mag seems the same, though not quite as thick. The production value is better - a much slicker publication - but it seems like some of the old columns are gone. The feature articles are longer, though. Alex Dunne's correspondence chess column seems absent...is correspondence chess dead? Rendered impossible due to computers? I see they still print all the tournament life entries,...

Looks like we finally got rid of the *******

On Apr 1, 8:32 am, (Sam Sloan) wrote: It has been announced on the Internet this morning that SusanPolgar is resigning all her positions in chess and moving back toHungary. http://www.chessville.com/misc/PolgarQuits.htm That would end the need for a recall. The problem is that today is April Fools Day. We will have to wait until tomorrow to find out whether...

One of the older rules still used in some informal Chess play is that a Pawn can only be promoted to one of your own pieces that has already been captured. The intent of this rule is, of course, to permit Chess to be played neatly with one ordinary Chess set. One of the ways chess players have coped with the practical issue is to use an upside-down Rook to stand for a Queen.

Now, Joel Channing has posted to the USCF Issues Forum a statement that he resigns effective immediately if the vote to cancel the "Internet Insurance" passes. The problem with this is that at every meeting while I was on the board, Channing said that he was considering resigning. This is clearly part of his bullying tactics, saying "If you don't do things my way, I am taking my ball and...

Yes the EB approved it but the stakes are now higher - the loss of an important Board member, who has opportunities in the oven and the fact that at least one Board member feels that the very existence of the USCF is at risk because of the potential magnitude of legal developments. Personally I agree with that assessment. Right or wrong, Susan's potential marketability is enormous and its...

by chessoffice on Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:39 pm #97874 Two votes have been completed as follows: To cancel the internet insurance: Yes 4 (Bauer, Berry, Goichberg, Hough), No 1 (Channing), Abstain 2 (Polgar, Truong). The motion passes. To shut down the USCF Issues Forum: Yes 2 (Polgar, Truong), No 4 (Bauer, Channing, Goichberg, Hough), Abstain 1 (Berry). The motion fails.

While I've always liked and enjoyed chess, I've never been a strong player. I've found that I tend to freeze up under time pressure so I've been playing alot of correspondence chess and have improved to the point where I'm ready to try some live games. I have an account at FICS and was wondering what type of time controls is appropriate. 5 and 10 minute games are definately out and although I...

G'day gruppe, I'm having an issue with 'the devil went down to Georgia'. I'm aware of manic fiddling & that TK has left the gruppe for sunny California, so his esteemed, musicalogical analysis shan't & won't be forthcoming any time soon. It seems to me, that when the boincy, bundling, billy-bob (oh! what name TK) bratwurst-bibbing, baby-bonced bleh blibbering, blehh booby gets on his haunches &...

On Sunday, April 6th, 2008, the Exposition Park Chess Club http://chess.expoparkla.com/] hosted a free, open, unrated, three- round chess tournament at the Exposition Park Library www.lapl.org/branches/06.html] in Los Angeles, California. The tournament consisted of three quads. There were, therefore, a total of twelve competitors who were attracted to the tournament. The tournament was...

We just had to stop it. 1,000 phone calls and e-mail in 12 hours, including the New York Times... ggg Poor old Hodmezovasarhely! I thought I stocked it pretty well, with an old castle of the Austrio-Hungarian empire stone chalets

In another thread, Rev. J.D. Walker said of Sam Sloan: On Apr 3, 6:48 pm, "J.D. Walker" wrote: Sam, Just for the record, I acknowledge your fierce skills at research. I'm not sure what "fierce" was supposed to mean in this context, but regulars of this newsgroup know that applying the word "skill" to Sam's research is an oxymoron. He is generally quite slipshod.

Your country needs you Mr. Truong. Here is your chance to go back. If you work on it, you might even make the top-20 in your country: http://www.thanhniennews.com/sports/?catid=5&newsid=37432 Your country needs you. Time to do your patriotic duty. Int'l chess institute to be built in south Vietnam A chess institute will be built in the southern province of Ba Ria-