Can someone please help me to find a better chess site than just yahoo chess? Their ratings are really bad and messed up and some of the people there are really annoying.....

Hi... I need help about how to use CessBase Nalimov Tablebases with BookUp 2000 Pro build 25. thk

This may sound like a troll but it's not, I assure you I've lost touch with chess over the years, and would welcome someone giving me a quick overview of how the world of chess stacks up right now. For example, I know Kramnik is the champion, is he really better than Kasparov? what happened to GK? I'm also confused by the different federations and tournaments going on, and so if someone could...

On 22 Apr 2005 15:49:06 -0700, "Taylor Kingston" wrote: wrote: NEWSGROUP MYTH One of the biggest myths of this newsgroup is that Sam Sloan is a liar ... He usually issues immediate corrections and often thanks nasty correspondents for information.they provide.

Of the following three types of endings, which are you the most likely to be able to win and which are you the least likely to be able to win: 1. Q+P vs. Q 2. R+P vs. R 3. minor piece + P vs. minor piece --- Replace you know what by j to email

Anyone in US has a chance to become next Magnus Carlson? With all this huge success in Nashville tourney - 5000+ participants I think we have a chance.

Mike Vetto wrote: Idiot, its not about my rating. Gm's games are suppsoed to be masterful, and when you go through the moves, you will say wow, i never thought of that. This is not so with Hikaru, he plays typical moves, not stong moves like those of Fischer and Morphy OR OTHER MOST GM'S. They only reason he has that rating is because he PLAYED CHESS FOR 16 YEARS AND HES ONLY 18

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Larry Parr, one of the more frequent posters to this group, is a highly disputatious person. When contradicted, he will often ask his contradictor for evidence. This is entirely right and proper. And so, we feel entirely within our rights to ask Mr. Parr for evidence supporting this statement of his, which appeared on this newsgroup 25 April, 2005: "He also wrote a long screed justifyingy ...

Sam Sloan wrote: For centuries it has been an opening that every chess player knows about and has played against, but has never had a name. Now, it has a name. Before, it was just the Patzer Opening. Everybody knew what that was, but that was not an official name. What do you mean official? On who's authority has it been named thus, by a multi million pound maniac who kills...

I would ask some of my good friends like what do they mean about my playing?! Perhaps they mean that you play like Crafty running on an abacus?

Not tips at beating the engine necessarily, but just to customize or improve its performance and appearance. Anybody?

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Sam Sloan wrote: On Sun, 01 May 2005 19:55:09 GMT, "John J." wrote: Looks like even he says that he wasn't the first. Yes. I forwarded this entire debate to Benko in Budapest and he replied. Sam Sloan

....AS ETHICS COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN? I am wondering what facts, if any, support Sam Sloan's allegations? -- George John The fact that a USCF member named Andy gave his e-mail address on the FIDE newsgroup and said he subscribed to the official USCF e-mail list and that's where he received the endorsement from Beatriz who signed it as both president and chief operating officer. It looks like...

The Mother of All Conflicts of Interest has Occurred with the Chief Operating Officer of the USCF using the official USCF mailing list to mail out a campaign letter supporting Randy Bauer, Steve Shutt, Elizabeth Shaughnessy and George John for election. Never in the history of the USCF has such a thing occured. When Al Lawrence was Executive Director, he certainly did not like me and wanted me...

wrote in message ... On 1 May 2005 16:58:48 -0700, "Taylor Kingston" wrote: Sam, I want to be sure of your definition of the Benko Gambit. Is that it above (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5)? If so, your definition agrees exactly with the Oxford Companion's definition.

Yesterday, Sunday, May 1st, our chess club hosted a free, unrated, three-round chess tournament at the Exposition Park Library http://www.lapl.org/branches/06.html] in Los Angeles. The tournament consisted of two quads and one Swiss System section of six players. The Swiss System section was assisted by Tiffany Sofie, who functioned as the tournament's house player. There were, therefore, a total...

Jeremy Spinrad wrote: Noone accuses Sandy Koufax of being crazy. Koufax is one of the all-time baseball greats, but rather than glory in the spotlight, he lives quietly in a relatively modest home, and does not give interviews. If this was all Fischer did, literally noone would say he was ill. But Fischer is different. He has to live his own way of living, just like the American way.

Here's an interesting Q&A over at chesscafe.com in Bruce Pandolfini's column: Q. So Mr. Pandolfini, what are your favorite books?) Thank you. Brandon Murray, USA A. None of my own books are among my favorites. I kind of loathe them all, but that's just me (actually, there may be a few others who feel the same way - let me look into that). As far as the other books you've mentioned go, I think...