In Cheron, and other sources, the following study by Botvinnik is given: 8/8/4kpp1/8/2KPP3/8/6P1/n7 w - - 0 1 White to play and draw It is a very nice study, a very nice addition to the "knight in the corner" groups of studies of N+P(s) vs. Ps. It is well worth taking the time to try to solve it, and if you can't, just about any computer

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1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. d3 d6 5. Be3 Bb6 6. Nbd2 h6 7. Nf1 Nf6 8. h3 Ne7 9. Ng3 c6 10. Bb3 Bxe3 11. fxe3 Qb6 12. Qd2 a5 13. c3 a4 14. Bd1 Be6 15. O-O Qc7 16. Nh4 b5 17. Bc2 c5 18. Ngf5 Bxf5 19. Nxf5 Nxf5 20. Rxf5 Nd7 21. Raf1 f6 22. Bd1 a3 23. Bh5+ Ke7 24. b3 Rhf8 25. R5f3 Nb6 26. Rg3 Kd8 27. Bg4 Qe7 28. Be2 Kc7 29. d4 c4 30. Rb1 g5 31. bxc4 bxc4 32. Rb4 Qe6 33. d5 Qc8 34. Bxc4 Na4 35....

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I have noticed a strong trend towards attacking Joel Channing on chessdiscussion.com This is significant because chessdiscussion.com is heavily moderated and nothing can appear there without permission of Polgar and truong. For example, a lot of the financial decisions made by Joel Channing have been criticized there. Today an attack by "Tennessee Vols" appeared on the site. This is because...

More Mishandling of Life Membership Assets Grant Perks puts his finger on the problem but misses the solution. The problem is not the board and not the failure to pass a balanced budget. We always pass a balanced budget. If the Executive Director presents an unbalanced budget including a lot of money for his friends, we simply write in a bunch of nice looking numbers and presto- chango the...

The United States Chess Federation is in a lot of trouble. What with $2 million that has gone missing and the insiders are showing no inclination to find out what happened to the money plus a laptop computer with all the financial data on it just walked out the door all by itself, and then we received calls for a high profile female (who would be less likely to steal) to be given a leadership...

I initially missed the article that appeared in the New York Times two days ago, but this is a truly great development: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/us/20chess.html What needs to be noted (and what nobody else has commented on thus far) is that this program comes from Erik Anderson and his American Foundation for Chess. It also should be recalled that a certain person was attacking Mr.

Here is the official response from Giganews: -- the real anonymous fake | | From: Giganews Support | Newsgroups: giganews.general | Subject: trace header decoder? | Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:33:31 -0500

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On Mar 22, 4:49 am, (Sam Sloan) wrote: "3. Do not make personal attacks or defamatory or disparaging comments about any person, group or company. Do not flame or troll. None of them are chess personalities. It is not the job of the USCF Forum Moderators to protect the reputations of persons who do not even play chess or are involved in chess in any way.

On Mar 22, 3:49 am, (Sam Sloan) wrote: It is not the job of the USCF Forum Moderators to protect the reputations of persons who do not even play chess or are involved in chess in any way. You mistake the purpose of their actions. The purpose is to protect the USCF from being sued by these persons, not to protect their reputations.

Sam Sloan wrote: This is obviously nonsense. I did not accuse anybody of a crime or an unethical act. I stated that Citibank made a mistake. They paid the money to the wrong person. That was not a crime. What about that Roddewig fellow? John Savard

On Mar 21, 7:00 pm, (Sam Sloan) wrote: Citibank Cheats Grandmaster Benko out of $70,000 Bear Stearns just recently "went under", as they say, so PB might want to act fast, before Citibank too, bites the dust. I noticed that Mr. Sloan -- as is his longstanding habit -- targeted somebody with money (Citi), as

On Mar 21, 7:00*pm, (Sam Sloan) wrote: Another question concerns the fact that Wolfgang Roddewig was able to use his position as Honorary Counsel of Germany to Salvador, Brazil to grab $70,000 that did belong to him. Sam, did you perhaps omit the word "not" between "did" and "belong" in the above sentence? Roddewig cannot have stolen his own property.

I'm reading Edward Lasker's Chess Strategy currently and in Part II, Illustrative Games From Master Tournaments, Game No. 1, White: Tartokower, Black: Burn, King's Gambit Declined there is some commentary I don't follow. All of the commentary can be found on http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=9315&pageno=116 (and on 117) but here I'll just copy and paste the game moves to...

I wrote about my Ivan computer for you but since it is 500 to 600 area now i am not sure if you read it ? Yes Sanny and I will have a rematch in the near future and i hope Ivan can be white and we will play on the computer discussions board to make every one on this board happy ... GC and Ivan are very close in elo i belive.. Well have a positive day ..

In another thread, Sam Sloan wrote: "The fact is that Taylor Kingston has never beaten a master." Would you care to bet on that, Sam? If so, how much? I'd like a minimum bet of at least $10,000, but I'll go higher if you like.

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I think you recognize and agree that during my one year on the board I consistently advocated a big cut in expenses. In particular, I advocated very specific cuts that would have reduced expenses by $80,000 without any reduction in services to the membership. Unfortunately, at that time the board was deadlocked. I could only get two-and a half to three votes to cut expenses. With a...