EZoto wrote: Any GM's or IM's care to comment on her in the US championship. I feel bad for her here. I don't think the GM's here really want to show her up but I feel they are forced to beat her in every game she plays. If she draws one game that would be an achievement. There may have been a somewhat similar situation in the 1997 FIDE World Championship. The records I have say that...

She's the greatest President ever. She should be the USCF President again. We need her.

Sam Sloan wrote: Since you are a real journalist in real life and since you took notes, I am sure that your account is more accurate than mine. As a reminder, here is what Sam Sloan had to say about Eric Mark on another occasion: Mark: "I'm a journalist, and these things matter to me. They should matter to

In the game Rubinstein - Spielmann, Semmering 1926, after 1.c4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e3 Nf6 4.Nf3 e6 5.Nbd2, Kmoch writes that Lasker's 5...c5! is considered best. "This is no loss of time, but a powerful answer to the delirious development of the White Queen's Knight." I'm afraid the "power" is somewhat lost on me. ...c5 looks like it would be a desirable move against almost anything -- why is it so...

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I've just baught this chess book called "The amateur's mind" and I'm unable to understand symbols such as 1.nb5 2.bxb5+ c6 3. Bc4 Nd7 4. Qd4 Qc5! 5.Qxc5 Nxc5 Does anyone here know what they mean? I'd greatly appriciate if anyone knew the answer.

A friend of mine recently purchased a digital chess clock - i think it is called a DGT XL. We want to get used to using a clock, perhaps even join a local club and start playing tournaments someday once we get good enough, but neither of us have any experience with using a clock and have found trying to figure out how to setup this clock is harder than learning to play chess in the first...

This was a sweetheart deal to pay off Greg Shahade. A position with this kind of salary should have been opened to the best candidate. This is another scam from Goichberg. Sam Sloan

Are the games of Gagra 1953 (the so-called secret training tournament) available online in pgn or cbh form? Can't seem to find it. Thanks.

In is book "Psychology in Chess" Krogius refers to some tests by L.Cherny to investigate into potential of young chessplayers. Does anybody know this tests in details ? Thanks, frengo

Inventive? Originally? Well, you get the point. I would qualify... if I weren't just a 2300 patzer :-) -- Hauke Reddmann :-EX8 His-Ala-Sec-Lys-Glu Arg-Glu-Asp-Asp-Met-Ala-Asn-Asn

The guy with the mouth loses today. He is the Bent Larsen of our Generation. I can see Kramnik shaking in his boots. Topalov is scary isn't he? EZoto *** Free account sponsored by SecureIX.com *** *** Encrypt your Internet usage with a free VPN account from http://www.SecureIX.com ***

I would like everyone to visit the USCF forum. This way, I can personally monitor all the fake Ray Gordons and protect your rights. Mike

An endorsement from Sloan is like a kiss of death. It seems that he likes Marinello now. Does he still want to convert her?

The mouth that roared has no teeth. Kramnik must be terrified. EZoto *** Free account sponsored by SecureIX.com *** *** Encrypt your Internet usage with a free VPN account from http://www.SecureIX.com ***

It has been confirmed by the board that Hoffman and Shahade would receive at least $50K (each) a year or more. Did the delegates approve this expenditure? Sam Sloan

I have long maintained that anybody who runs for the USCF Board should be required to take an IQ Test and anybody who cannot score at least 70 on the test should be disqualified from running. This, I realize will disqualify so many people that few who are or have been on the board would be or have been able to make the grade. Still, I am revamping my old proposal.I feel that the events of...

Hello all. Sorry for my repost on RGCC. I own an old (15 year) novag mentor 16, without the manual. I have searched over google ang groups google, and on ebay too, to find the paper manual or a pdf, but without results. Anyone can help me to find the instructions for the novag mentor 16? Sorry for my bad english.

Marinello was the best ever dyke President of the USCF. She was not afraid to cut Schultzy's balls. She should be reinstated to her natural position at once. Sam Sloan