Who will be the February Champion? Don't miss our WCN League Tournament! This Saturday @ 15:00 est the second WCN League will be held. A tourney as you like it: 100 Crowns in prize, no entry fee, open to all, class prizes for U1500 and U1200 and the winner will get the WCN Champ title until the next Tourney! Somebody has to be the best one. Why not...

I'm looking for the following chess magazines: New in Chess Magazine 2002 en 2004 Schaakbulletin Nr. 4 Deutsche Schachzeitung 1950/51, 51/52 and 52/53 complete Deutsche Schachzeitung 1960 nr. 9 and 10 Deutsche Schachblätter 1975 Nr. 1, 3 and 4

Just in case anyone cares, there is a chess podcast available, put out by Alexandra Kosteniuk: http://www.kosteniuk.com/podcast/ or search for "Chess" in iTunes. It's not bad, although I think it's geared mostly for beginners. Others might like some of the more "newsy" items, though.

Does anyone have an idea what teams finished at the top? Thanks. -- Ian Burton (Please reply to the Newsgroup)

Apples and Oranges Department: Anybody have a feel for how the two systems map to each other? For example, if one has a Quick Chess rating of 2100, what might that person's playchess Blitz rating be? I suppose the only real way to answer this is to take random samples of rated players who are currently active in both systems and compare, but.... Any semi-informed opinions, personal examples,...

FIDE article 2.4 says (in part) "The pieces should not be shiny... ". Are lacquered pieces too shiny? http://www.fide.com/official/handbook.asp?level=C02 --- Replace you know what by j to email

Readers may be familiar with the book "The Beginner's Game" by Pafu which seems to come up in discussion periodically. Does anyone know how to contact the author - the book's home page doesn't seem to have an email address. Thanks.

The Albion of Oct 27, 1860 says that it is not generally known that while at the chess congress in 1857, Paulsen and Morphy played 10 or 11 offhand games against each other, and Morphy won all of them. This seems to be a different story than I have from other sources (eg a summary of Morphy's results in NY given in Chess Monthly of 1857);

This is a big political payoff. I told you 3 weeks ago. Us chumps in PA can smell **** pretty quickly.

I see in Russian chess news the following announcement:- The Presidium of the Russian chess federation has unanimously supported a nominee of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov for the post of FIDE President, in the elections to take place in Turin in June, 2006. Phil Innes

Does anyone know what happened to the huge collection of R J Fischer documents and books that some guy found in a car boot sale and offered for sale on eBay? I hope it went to a good home, like the USCF of a major library. Alan -- Work like the ponies in coalmines. Dance like the teardrop explodes.

Have a look at: http://www.chessninja.com/dailydirt/archives/kreiman_punishment_not.htm Petrel also made a interesting and controversial stab the sponsorship. Duncan

A Wikipedia page I created has just been modified by somebody else to say that the new USCF Executive Director is Joshua Casey-Rosa. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Directors_of_the_United_States_Chess_Federation Is this true? A week ago I heard a rumor that Bill Hall had resigned. I dicounted it because nobody else had heard it.

A friend of mine is getting rid of his chess library pretty inexpensively. .. just wanted to put it out there in case any of you wanted to grab some cheap copies of some good books.. he's doing it at amazon under the seller name "nonprofitfuture"

Can anyone give me a reference to a published source (on paper) that Petrosian had the nickname "Iron Tigran"? I need a complete reference, with page number. Thank you! --- Replace you know what by j to email

And I'm not talking about an honorary title. I'm curious to know...

Just for a smile ! http://www.jmrw.com/Abroad/Egypte/Assouan/Partie%20Orientale/pages/Orient4.htm -- J'ai découvert que tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos dans une chambre. Pascal (Pensées) http://www.jmrw.com/index.htm

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 04:52:10 GMT, "Randy Bauer" wrote: "Cranky Chess" wrote in message ... http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA021406.2B.crespo.d43bf0c.html Rape, kidnapping - parent's are stupid to let their kids hang around chess ...

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Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 6:10 am by Sam Sloan A bit confused about USCF book sale. I sell books through Amazon. I get about $25 per month, although some times when things are really good I get $30. Still, that is a bit less than the $3,500,000 that the USCF used to receive per year before Bill Goichberg gave away the USCF's books and equipment business.