Hello all: Can anyone point me to some information about one "Guillermo Garcia Gonzales", who played in the 1982 Moscow Interzonal tournament (won by Kasparov)? I have, of course, Google'd him, but the information I have found has not seemed very reliable. In particular, I am curious to know: what is his country of origin; what titles he held (if any) at the time the Interzonal was played,...

Court transcript is ready. I need a volunteer to pick it up. I have just received word that the court stenographer has prepared the transcript of the hearing held in Orange County Supreme Court in Goshen New York in the case of Sam Sloan vs. Beatriz Marinello and the USCF. I need somebody to go to the courthouse to pick up the transcript in both paper and disk format and pay the $60 fee for the...

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Greetings all - First of all, I was just wondering if anyone could tell me if Kasparov (or Karpov) "commissioned" or endorsed a specific chess set back in the mid- to late-80s (MAYBE early 90's)? I thought I remembered seeing something like that years ago in Chess Life, but just can't find any meniton of it anywhere. As a sort of corollary to that, does anyone know if Kasparov played with a...

Bobby will be checkmated when he arrives in Iceland.

On 21 Mar 2005 21:33:46 -0800, "George John" wrote: Sam Sloan wrote: Then kindly explain why you feel that the USCF Board should not at a minimum write a letter to Stan Booz admonishing him not to do this

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 03:22:49 GMT, "Randy Bauer" wrote: "Sam Sloan" wrote in message ... On 21 Mar 2005 09:44:44 -0800, "George John" wrote: That said, IMHO, the handling of this issue by way of this motion was

The impact of the London-1851 tournament, together with the Morphy matches against Loewenthal (London 1858), Harrwitz (Paris 1858), Anderssen (Paris 1858) and Mongredien (Paris 1858; Mongredien drew one game and lost seven), is presented by the following table: rank | player | cha-Score ============================

Goran Tomic wrote in message ... You can see my texts with diagrams on: http://www.sah.paracin.co.yu/Topalov's%20era.htm Any comment would be appreciated. OK: Can you explain the logic in the last two sentences: "With his decision to quit the chess maybe we could ask what’s with his love

At 2 PM on TUESDAY, March 22, 2005, the Committee to Free Bobby Fischer will hold its main news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan at the Yurakucho Denki Building at Hibiya/Yurakucho Station in central Tokyo. This conference is open to all and full video and camera coverage is allowed. IF BOBBY FISCHER IS FREE BY THEN, HE WILL CONDUCT THE NEWS CONFERENCE HIMSELF. * * *

MOST URGENT NEWS RELEASE BOBBY FISCHER WINS ICELANDIC CITIZENSHIP! Chess Legend Sets World Record in 12-Minute Vote, Preparations in Progress to Leave Japan Bobby Fischer has succeeded in his quest for Icelandic citizenship! The Icelandic parliament, the Althingi, has granted World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer full citizenship as an Icelander. The Althingi, which is the world's oldest existing...

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Goran Tomic wrote: You didn't answer me about Brenenn's role with that man who probably worked for KGB. I can suppose that answer is YES, because you didn't deny it. Could you answer fast?! I'm very eager to reveal the truth. OK, Goran, I give up. Your will is too strong for me. You've smoked me out, and I confess: I have been a KGB agent since 1917. Both Neil Brennen and I were recruited...

Some years ago, there were posts about the Morphy Number of players, that is the shortest path of players such that Morphy played x, x played y,y played z, etc with a particular player at the end of the path. I have just realized in my research for an article on women's chess that Mrs. Harriet Worrall might be a useful link here. Mrs. Worrall played 2 games against Morphy, drawing one and losing...

March 21, 2005 In Step Toward Freedom, Iceland Grants Citizenship to Fischer By SARAH LYALL The New York Times http://makeashorterlink.com/?N60C128BA LONDON, March 21 - Iceland's parliament voted today to grant Icelandic citizenship to the American chess champion Bobby Fischer, laying the groundwork, his supporters said, for his release from the Japanese prison

-- Impact of London-1851 on Historical cha-Score ============================================= The cha-Score of a player is her/his score as calculated according to the Phase 1 of Historical Ranking. The "cha" prefix reminds us that it is based mainly and by far by a successfull play against champs and challs.

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-- Historical cha-Score after London 1851 ====================================== The cha-Score of a player is her/his score as calculated according to the Phase 1 of Historical Ranking. The "cha" prefix reminds us that it is based mainly and by far by a successfull play against champs and challs.

-- Wlodzimierz Holsztynski Championship and challenger time (historical ranking) ===================================================== For the ease of reference, let me post the perfected versions of the definitions of championship and challenger time. I'll also address the broken

I've volunteered to put together our club's website. Although I fully recognise Microsoft products are not great they are readily available and for me pretty easy to use so I've decided to go with FrontPage. I'm fairly happy with what I've got so far but it was suggested by someone who wouldn't have to do all the bloody design etc that it would be an idea to be able to play through some games or...