In a drawish position Svidler's King moved to the centre, simply giving Kramnik a nice and unexpected piece for a useless two pawns. Svidler must have seen fictitious hens in the year of the rooster.

Here you can buy Karpov`s Chess set with his signature : http://aukcje.wosp.org.pl/show_item.php?item=41833 The site is in Polish. The end of the auction is in four days. Regards, Jerzy

January 5th, 2005 Many sites announced the sad news of Arnold Denker's death. Among them was the editor of Week in Chess Mark Crowther. As is well known, in the 80-s a group of old strong chess players who had had great achievements in the past, were awarded the grandmaster's title. However, I did not agree with Mark Crowther's arguable remark that... Well, this is our correspondence two days...

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Hans J=F8rgen Lassen wrote: "Tim Hanke" wrote: In 1992, Fischer asked the U.S Treasury Dept. for an advance ruling on whether it would be legal for him to play a $5 million chess match in Yugoslavia in violation of an Executive Order and in violation of the U.N. embargo on Yugoslavia, which was involved in a horrible war of

On 19 Jan 2005 07:21:32 GMT, (Recmate) wrote: The ChessCafe deal is looking great for USCF. The Federation is going to collect $350,000 for the first year of outsourcing even though the competition was surprisingly aggressive and sales were poor. USCF wouldn't have done that well on its own, and will also fare much better than with the bid the Board almost accepted in...

.... is coming soon, so let's welcome the 'Year of the Rooster' with a chess quiz. The easy quiz question is: What is the relationship between Mamedyarov who plays in Corus B and Mamedyarova who plays in Corus C? You could win high honors by posting the right answer to this thread!

Greetings all... I recently purchased a Battle of Waterloo chess set (Franklin Mint release c. 1984), and discovered that it has a duplicate pawn, as well as one pawn with an incorrect base. So, I'm trying to source a "Line Infantry Pawn" (blue base) from this set, if anyone might have one to sell. I figure I can use the base from the duplicate pawn to fix the one with the incorrect base, but...

I work as a biology teacher in an elementary school, and lead chess activities in it. Our school was damaged. Everybody want to forget those terrible days. At the time of the bombardment I was writing with a Serbian journalist, and she pointed to one picture in particular, it was the head of a cow which had landed on the steps of a church. She didn't care to argue for either side's actions...

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Hi Folks, The news and updates page at chesschamps: http://www.chesschamps.com/newsupdate.php links to some significant new developments, including a statment by Garry Kasparov to the effect that he is giving up his participation in the FIDE cycle in view of ongoing frustrations and difficulties with FIDE. There are also links to 50 minutes of downloadable video footage of his

Is it me or has the Chessbase online database cut back on the number of games that are available? Did anyone else notice this? phx

New site to play chess by mail. The link : http://www.chess-mail.com/ Try it, It' s totaly free ! There are level tournaments ( with 5 players ): Level 1 : 1500 Elo Level 2 : 1400-1700 Level 3 : 1600-1900

My son just won his first reportable chess prize ($1,200)and I was trying to advise him on the (US) tax implications. I assume that he'll receive a 1099 showing the winnings and they'll be reportable as either misc. earnings on his 1040 or on Form C. On the Form C, he should be able to show chess-related expenses (e.g., entry fees, books, software, travel to tournaments) offsetting the income,...

Any hints...I don't need to play,just for study purposes to be able to setup positions,explore variants and return to the starting position -- -- Thanks, Hank

I will make this short and sweet. I am a student of two other hobbies, performance magic and poker, which I have extensive libraries on, and I would like to begin a private study of chess. What two or three books and/or computer programs would you recommend to someone who has played chess for decades, but never studied it, but has a studying type of mind when interested? I am looking for a...

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January 5, 2005 For Immediate Release Nakamura vs. Polgar Chess Exhibition 17-year-old U.S. Chess Champion Hikaru Nakamura and World Women's top-ranked Grandmaster Susan Polgar have agreed to play a unique exhibition game during the Millennium Chess Festival on February 26, 2005, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA, it was announced today.

All of you people have been making fun of Win Moe, but I will have you know that Win Moe is now the 9th rated woman chess player in America. Take a look at http://www.uschess.org/ratings/top/0412/Women.php Must have had a sex change operation since the last time I saw Win Moe, however. Sam Sloan

Standoff ends in arrest Web Posted: 01/15/2005 12:00 AM CST Mary Moreno San Antonio Express-News A 43-year-old woman who was held at gunpoint for 18 hours at a Northwest Side motel also was raped, police said Friday. The standoff that began shortly after the woman was abducted from a