Is there a computer Chess program with a chess960 option? Thanks :)

If Sam Sloan would provide a detailed explanation of why he was in jail, lost his Securities license, and lost his Taxi Driver license, I would seriously consider voting for him. Those serious matters need to be cleared up beforehand, though.

Armenia's board 2 Akopian scored decisive win to secure team's win over Uzbekistan as Holland paved Armenia's way to the top surprisingly pulling off Russia. Belarus won their sixth consecutive match to lie in third. (...) Read more, including annotated game highlights, at http://www.olimpbase.org

Earlier in this thread, use of the crown symbol on the tops of the King's knight and rook was discussed. I have since learned that Staunton advocated this convention as early as 1841, i.e. eight years before the Cook registration, which incorporated that design feature. See C.P.C. p.139. " ... We throw out this suggestion at random, but have very little doubt that the makers of Chess-men would...

Sam Sloan video on Google Video I have just by happenstance discovered a video of me on the Internet on Google Video. The video is at http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Sam+Sloan+for+Governor or you can just go to http://www.video.google.com and search for Sam Sloan.

On 27 May 2006 13:20:33 -0700, "cerebus" wrote: I think Kirsan will win because as FIDE president he can promise all sorts of good things to people who support him - he has tremendous powers of patronage - shall we say, the fact that David Levy, Boris Kutin and Beatriz Marinello - all of whom have good reasons to support Bessel are switching to Kirsan I think...

can anyone reccommend a good chess site. i have an account at FICS but i dont really like the interfaces and the commands seem a bit awkard. ive also played a few games at Yahoo (need i say more?) beyond that i have a few games going at a couple of correspondence chess/turned based sites. this is ok but i miss the ebb and flow of a live game. my second question regarding the live sites are...

Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 2:02 am Zoning of New HQ Bldg I began researching the Crossville land deal at the annual meeting in Phoenix last August. I became concerned when I read a note in the financial report that said that, in the event of a sale of the building, the City has the right to buy back the land for one dollar. When I raised this as a question at one of the sessions I was...

Cunning Chess Players Win! Are you hopelessly straightforward and trustful? We, the subtle, convoluted, and bold players of the Exposition Park Chess Club http://chess.expoparkla.com/] very greatly desire the attendance of wily chess players. The next first Sunday of the month, June 4th, will be the occasion of a free, unrated, open, three-round chess tournament. Cash prizes will *NOT*...

Conflict between Afghan Delegations to the World Chess Federation. There is a Congress of the World Chess Federation going on right now in Turin, Italy in the same sporting facility that housed the Winter Olympic Games a few months ago. There are two slates running for the presidency. One slate is known as The Good Guys. The other slate is known as The Bad Guys. Both the Good Guys and the Bad...

Newsgroup Censorship by Rob Mitchell Rob Mitchell, a regular poster to the chess newsgroups, especially rec.games.chess.politics , has come up with an interesting way to thwart discussion of any topics he finds objectionable: He changes the subject headers, so that anybody who has been following the discussion will not be able to see what happened to it. At first I thought it was happenstance...

"Kirsan the Incredible", "a short book about the great man" has just been published and is being presented to all the FIDE delegates at the FIDE Congress in Turin, Italy http://www.chessfidelity.com/elections.php?txt_id=220 The ISBN number is not yet available. Sam Sloan

Round five caused no harm in the top of the progress table as all of top teams went to draw each other. Only top teams to take wins are USA who beat Georgia and surprisingly Iran who defeated Vietnam 3-1 to find themselves in tied 5th. The Russia-Armenia was a match of two teams commonly believed to struggle for gold. Vladimir Kramnik hammered rising talent Aronian at top board but the...

What Wayne Praeder proposes is exactly the opposite of what we need. What we need is a way to induce the good board members who served in the past to come back and run again. We had some excellent board members back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, men like Fred Gruenberg, John Donaldson and Jerry Hanken. When they were on the board, the USCF was profitable. It was during their terms of...

Leading Round 5 Pairings 25th May 2006: Russia 13.5 - 13.5 Armenia Uzbekistan 12.5 - 13 Netherlands Spain 12 - 12 Sweden Ukraine 12 - 12 Bulgaria India 11.5 - 11.5 China Georgia 11.5 - 11.5 USA Poland 10 - 10 Italy A Greece 11 - 11 Argentina Romania 11 - 11 Iceland

How come people who play chess act so weird and strange? I went to a tournament one time in a big hotel; people acted really strange.. I saw players who would slam the pieces down. I don't understand how slamming a piece down makes their move stronger than placing it gently. I saw one player screw the piece into the board as he placed them on their new squares.

I am a Blitz 1355 on the playchess.com server. Yeas I know is pretty slow! But I wonder if to get better I should be practicing against other player at my level till I can beat them on a regular basis or I should playing against others stronger than me only? Any recommended ELO range like 1300-1400 or something like that?

My husband and I bought a beautiful chess set in Mexico last week -- marble and soapstone board with 6" matching pieces, not quite staunton but very similar, elongated almost. Gorgeous. We of course had to unpack it to play while we were there then in packing it up to ship 6 of the pieces broke -- one broke just because the piece got knocked over on the board. My question to those of you who...

I would like to know if Opening is learnt by a Computer Game will it make better moves. If it is so Can anyone tell me how can I get a list of All the Major Openings. Currently the game plays without Openings: http://www.softtanks.com/chessgame/Chess.html I want that the game plays First four Moves without thinking a second and plays the best Opening moves.

As the Chess game Preformance has increased 7 Recorded Games have been played you can view all the recorded games at: http://www.getclub.com/cc/showgame.php?num=10 3 of them are between Human Players rest 4 are with Computer. The computer is making good moves in reasionable time. You can start a new game at