I came across this hilarious article from an old Harper’s Weekly magazine. It portrays Paul Morphy as “Jack the Giant-Killer” and gives a spoof on his adventures in Europe in 1858. http://www.rookhouse.com/blog/?p=202 Thanks, Morphy

Below is a decent game, But in the end Help Bot was a pawn ahead. I found at move 17... Nf6xe4 Help Bot took the Pawn. Was there any way for Normal Level to save that Pawn, As all moves were forced moves. Game Played between help bot and normal at GetClub.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- help bot: (Black) normal: (White) Game Played at:...

THE CASTING COUCH The other major roles that will need to be filled a Jocelyn Jordan, the beautiful and fetching daughter of Senator Thomas Jordan. -- Sam Sloan Dear Sam, The obvious choice for this role is your tenth-cousin Ann Coulter.

I found these two sites: http://www.lutanho.net/pgn/board2fen.html http://www.bytewings.nl/fen/ Off this thread on the SchemingMind site: http://www.schemingmind.com/topic.aspx?topic_id=75068 They look of value to me. The second one allows ? spaces. - Rich

A lot of pics from Round 4 - free for web sites, blogs and personal usage are available at http://en.chessfish.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=634 and http://en.chessfish.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=635

"Specific Proposed Ideas" by Susan Polgar In response to the criticism that in the nine months since Susan Polgar became a member of the USCF Executive Board in August, 2008, she has not proposed one specific idea, she has posted an article on her discussion group entitled "Specific Proposed Ideas". Take a look at the specific proposals that Susan Polgar advocates. Each and every one of them...

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This frenetic marble-popping adventure puts you in charge of how fast each level will end. Knock out doomsday devices on each of the 100 levels in the game by matching marble colors in sets of three. To finish off the device and move on to the next round, simply destroy the cleverly-placed static orbs that continually allow additional chains to fill the track. Easy to learn, but difficult to...

Now she allows death threats and an open attack on a ten year old girl on her "open forum". http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2008/05/saturday-open-forum_10.html

Hi, My name is Ray Li, and I am a 16-year-old high school student. For a class in Critical Thinking, we are required to complete a semester- long, independent-study project. For my project, I chose to finish and market a board game which I have been working on for a while. The game is called Lineage. It is a two-player, abstract strategy game. Most people who've played the game have compared it...

Take a look at the specific proposals that Susan Polgar advocates. Each and every one of them advocates publishing more photos of Susan Polgar in Chess Life magazine and advocates more publicity for Paul Truong. Here is an example, "Both Paul and I offered to go to these events to represent the USCF. Paul offered to conduct free classes or seminars to teach parents, coaches, organizers, and...

The Rating of Chess Players, Past and Present by Arpad Elo Arpad Elo was one of the giants of the World of Chess. Born in 1903, he got off to a slow start, learning the rules of chess by reading the Encyclopedia Britannica in his high school library. By 1935, he was Wisconsin State Champion, a title he won eight times. In 1939, Arpad Elo was one of the seven founding members of the...

http://www.syubrawi.com/play-action-games-online, Gaming, especially playing free games online has made tremendous progress and is here to stay for a long time to come. Rapidly replacing most other forms of entertainment such as Televison and even traditional gaming consoles , it is addictive,cheap and most importantly FREE. A recent comScore survey confirmed the impact of internet games...

Can you name the two players sitting at the table? The two players depicted in the pictures on the wall? The year and location of this photograph? http://www.rookhouse.com/blog/?p=195

Mowing the lawn is simple, but planting a flower ... think again. Put on your gardening gloves and collect beautiful bouquets. Plant flowers side by side in rows of three or more, but be careful, every rose has its thorn in this match-3 game. New flowers arrive frequently so you're green thumb must act quickly to avoid incoming flower-food! To be a Master Gardener, hone your skills and become...

WARREN HARDING Arthur Link, an apologist for Woodrow Wilson's decision to enter WWI and the author of the definitive biography of the man, wrote a slender volume about Wilson's foreign policy. The legal issue of the British blockade (yes, the Brits would have sank our merchant vessels had we tried to run their blockade) and the German U-boat

GM Vassily Ivanchuk, GM Veselin Topalov and GM Ivan Cheparinov won their first games in this year MTel Masters super chess tournament. Ivanchuk (UKR) was very strong with black pieces today and won in Queen Indian - Nimzovich variation against Tejmur Radjabov (AZE). Veselin Topalov (BUL) defeated Levon Aronian (ARM) after an effect rook sacrifice on move 36. The game was played in Catalan 3. ......

On Apr 27, 7:17 pm, Brian Lafferty wrote: The Polgar Blog covered the Lubbock Open this weekend in Lubbock, Texas. No mention on her blog at all about the National Girls Championship taking place in Dallas this weekend. Is Ms. Polgar too busy to note another Texas event on her blog or is there a strained relationship here. Inquiring minds would like to...

EVANS ON CHESS NEWSPAPER ARTICLE Reprinted courtesy of Chesstours @ all rights reserved. WAS IT A HOAX? "No other chess figure has had, has, or will have more autograph imitations than Bobby Fischer GUARANTEED!" Fisching For Forgeries by Lawrence Totaro

One thing I found was that GetClub was very costly compared to ChessMaster. So I have reduced the Price of Subscription at GetClub by half. Now, I feel I will get a lot of Customers. Here is the new Current Rate of Subscription. http://www.getclub.com/PurchaseGames.html