I did not know until Andy Soltis pointed it out that Akiva Rubinstein beat S Tarrasch 8-0 with 12 draws, over the years 1911 to 1924-ish. I suppose there are a few not-so-famous lop-sided results like that from chess history - I mean Kasparov v Shirov and many others are too well-known to mention. Short v Ljubojevic was highly in favour of the four-eyed kebab-cruncher for a long time. Any other...

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It looks like a pawn fork for black would have given him the advantage. I am sure I am missing something. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4013737198399816667&q=chess+queen+gambit&total=85&start=0&num=100&so=0&type=search&plindex=2

What is your ELO Sanny ? I am excited because i get tired of just playing Ivan myself , i like to watch other people or other computers play it.. Sanny E-2 to E-4 , Ivan E-7 to E=5

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Hello Chess Friends, It appears that the rec.games.chess.computer newsgroup has been abandoned. So, I will repost this here and see if anyone else is interested in the topic. If I am the only one that feels that this is significant, then I will let it die. :) One of the very strong GMs that plays on ICC goes by the handle of "Goldmund." He is actually Alexander Rustemov from Russia. He...

pialogue wrote: Theoretically speaking, if my personal goal was to achieve a draw in EVERY game that I played (as stupid or ill-advised as that may sound to most people), then what is the highest chess rating that I could possibly achieve Theoretically speaking there is no upper limit. E.g. assume you are starting with a rating of, say, 2697. Then one draws a huge number of games...

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I have no idea who has the better position or who is winning..Ivan thinks it is winning -0.0I I think Ivan will castle on the next one or two moves...White controls the middle of the board and his bishops and queen are ready to fight...Ivan is bottled up still....

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strive to be in the top 25 GM's in the world or would you be happy to be in the 70's or 80's 90;s rank in the world ? Or would you be happy just to be a GM even if it meant you were one of the weakest GM.s in the world.... Me , i think id be happy just being a no name GM.....Then again if you put that much of your life into being a GM then why not try harder to be one of the best ? Still for...

Looking for various continuations for White in the line: 1. e4 c5 2. d4 Nf6 Any Help would be greatly appreciated!

An extract from a letter just published in the editorial column, Alekhine's Parrot, at www.chessville.com or http://www.chessville.com/Editorials/AlekhinesParrot/Index.htm reads;- --- You have no sufficient evidence for any of these charges. After more than four months of investigation and wasting tens and thousands dollars of USCF

I've been browsing through old "Chess Life" pdfs, and was looking at the Feb 5, 1959 USCF rating list. I see Walter Korn rated at 1997 and Irving Chernev rated at 2000. At that time, Korn was in charge of MCO (the 9th edition had just come out), wrote regular columns on openings and endings for "Chess Life" and "Chess Review", and Chernev had many books in print. Can it be these noted...