I was watching the Aronian game on the ICC yesterday when a kibitzer noted that Aronian was only 137 cm tall (about 5'4"). Is this true? Just curious. -- Ian Burton (Please reply to the Newsgroup)

Has he ever lost an Olympiad game? He was on the brink today against Kamsky, but Kamsky failed to come up with the best moves, and Kramnik's great endgame strength earned him a draw. -- Ian Burton (Please reply to the Newsgroup)

Is there any "official" list of the strongest chess engine that get updated frequently?

Here are some chess puzzles taken from strong players in May tournaments. It's White to move and win except where noted. a) http://wtharvey.com/f2006a.png Vladimir Moskvin vs Vladimir Grebionkin, Internet, 2006 3qr1k1/4ppbp/2np1np1/2p5/4PP2/2PPNQ1P/1r1B2P1/R3RBK1 w - - 0 1 b) http://wtharvey.com/f2006b.png Loek Van Wely vs Jeroen Bosch, Netherlands,...

SOUTHERN EXPOSURE Well, lookee here. Our man in Zabroska has introduced a "zoika". Chuckle, &speaking of 'button-pushing' since we're not _all_ fervently tongue-lapping round dirty Malasian billionaire ****ty plugholes. Make sure you don't miss any flaky, cereal bits Liarry. -- "Michael Adams" Michael Adams proves worthy of the company of Stan Booz, Taylor Kingston and Neil Brennen in...

Now the Game plays what it was intended for. It plays TWICE FASTER and TWICE BETTER MOVES. That is what was needed for getting a decent Chess Playing game. Play Chess at: http://www.softtanks.com/chessgame/Chess.html I played with Beginner level and the game was finished in 20 minutes while the Game was much improved due to Opening and new modifications.

A remarkable result --- Nakamura beat Grischuk and the rest of the games were drawn. Is this the first time the US team has beaten Russia? Meanwhile, the Armenian team widened their lead with a 3-1 victory. By the way, the official site for results (according to TWIC) and in any event, a very good one, is:

Anyone know of an online source for errata for de Firmian's "Chess Openings the Easy Way"? There's an opening on page 58 in which he has white trying to castle short while his king's knight is still at home, and I'm curious to know what he really meant there. Or an electronic means of getting in touch with the author? I've found a few other mistakes and I wouldn't mind passing them along...

Scholastics poses a substantial challenge. It is a cash cow. The difficulity seems to be in the lack of "junior" players who are held to be the cream of the crop of young players. Personally, whether they are called scholastic or juniors doesn't matter. If we are serious about growing the ranks of adult players, we have to establish a program to : 1. locate talented young players

Friday, June 2, 2006. Issue 3424. Page 1. Aa Aa Aa A Game of Chess -- and Politics By Carl Schreck Staff Writer Sergei Porter / Vedomosti

About a year ago I wondered if anyone knew anything about the death - in 2003 - of GM Peter Szekely at the age of 48. I just wondered if anything had been learned since. Alan -- Work like the ponies in coalmines. Dance like the teardrop explodes.

D-Day Today in Turin, Italy Today is the day the vote will be taken to determine the President of FIDE for the next four years. I am scared and concerned. The re-election of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov as FIDE President would be a catastrophe of un-imaginable proportions. For one thing, there is the very real possibility that if Ilyumzhinov is re-elected, all of the countries supporting Kok will simply...

Hi, I've been playing chess off and on for the last 30 years- don't really get much of a chance to play. Most of my friends are into X-boxs or computer games. My favourite opening is the old pawn to king 4. Recently I've met another player who (as white)does pawn to queen 4. I usually counter that with pawn to king bishop 4. or just pawn to king 3- followed by a development of the queen's...

Goodness! Mike Nolan is in Turin! Who would have thought? As long as you are in Turin, why don't you volunteer to be the FIDE Parliamentarian? See how far that that gets. FIDE follows Roberts Rules of Order, with only a slight variation,

Armenia beat China in the top match of round 10 to strengthen their lead while Russia rose from scratch sweeping out declining Ukraine to move up to third. Today will be the rest day, and on Friday Armenia will test rampart Czech team at top table. (...) Read more including daily game highlights at http://www.olimpbase.org

Should Bill Hall be fired over the latest Beatriz Marinello affair? It has come out in the last 48 hours that USCF Executive Director Bill Hall paid money to Board Member-at-Large Beatriz Marinello to attend the coming FIDE Congress in Turin, Italy. Beatriz herself let this slip out in an Internet posting on Monday, May 22, 2006, when she wrote: "I am willing to dedicate time, money and energy...

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Hugh Myers did it! There is a person who keeps attacking me, every day, day after day, in every forum of which he is a member with a repetitiveness exceeded only by Bill Brock. He keeps calling me a liar at every opportunity and is causing a lot of problems for me and other members of these forums. Mr. Jomp has called me a liar 42 times in the last 21 days, or an average of twice a day, on rgcp...

LOOK WHO'S TALKING! If Cerebus will carefully examine the newsgroup record via Google or some such search engine, he will find that Blair asks "the same questions again and again" only when the person asked gives no satifactory answer, or no answer at all. Notorious repeat offenders would be Parr and Innes, who virtually never answer "inconvenient" questions. -- Taylor Kingston

I thought others might find this service useful. http://chess.meetup.com/ Good Playing! Let me know what you think of the site. Rob