What are the two games in which a nearly identical position is reached, except that the colours are reversed, but in which Rubinstein won and Smyslove repeated position and drew? -- Work like the ponies in coalmines. Dance like the teardrop explodes. Love like you're Frank in Blue Velvet. Sing as though your little throat would burst.

What happened with the US Open? I know it was down in Florida, but I only saw a couple of games covered on ICC and haven't really heard a thing about it, or any of the results...Am I missing something? Seems like one of the stronger events in the US (at least for the US) would get at least a little press somewhere.

For the last few years I have been happily using Fritz 5.32 running under Windows 98. Just in the past few days I have been getting the following error message shortly after setting up a position and asking Fritz to do "Correspondence Chess" analysis: "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists, contact the program vendor". The only thing I...

A team of humans will play a team of computers, see http://www.ajedrezbilbao.com/FestivalEN.htm Remarkable is that the humans are planned to have white against the computers in all games.

There are two conventional wisdoms about Reuben Fine's withdrawal from the 1948 match-tournament world championship. The first is that he was busy with his PhD work, hadn't been playing much, realized he wouldn't do well, and decided to skip it. The other is that he thought the Soviet players would rig it to guarantee one of them would win. (Please, not interested in the Botvinnik-Keres stories...

Until relatively recently, the leading chess letter was "S". Just imagine a K-S match. "K" would be a favorite, but "S" would have a good fighting chance. Here are the S-heros: Stamma, Staunton, Shen, Steinitz, Spielmann, Sultan Khan, Smyslov, Spassky, Stein, Shirov

Well, no prizes for guessing which side the UK authorities are on. Here's the latest blurb from the UK State broadcasting agency, namely the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3594024.stm: ***BEGIN ARTICLE***

From: http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20040824p2a00m0dm014003c.html ***BEGIN ARTICLE*** Bobby Fischer hangs on in Japan Bobby Fischer remains in Japan Tuesday night thanks to a last-minute appeal by his lawyers against a deportation order issued just hours

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Is it Bourdonnais or Labourdonnais? Big difference :-) Here they come: Bourdonnais, Bogolubov, Botvinnik, Boleslavsky, Bronstein Then there was the woman world champion Bykova; Berliner used to be the chess correspondence world champion at one time;

I NOW SEE BOTH OF BOBBY FISCHERS PRISON INTERVIEWS ON HTTP://WWW.GALUNA.COM

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Sorry if this is sent a second time. I am wondering about the Meek Fuller series in the 1st round of New York 1857. The sources I have give only 4 games; Meek is white in all 4, and each wins 2. Was there a 5th game or a forfeit, and does anyone have access to the score? Thanks for any help.

Has the proposal of awarding points only for wins in tournaments even been discussed? It would certainly lower the number of grandmaster draws in tournaments and even if you draw in a hard fought game you still get zero points as a point would only be given if you *defeat* your opponent. Comments?

"Ray Gordon" wrote in message ... This is the rough chess equivalent of what the Bills did when they came back from being down 35-0 at the half to the Oilers. Following is the game score. White is 14 years old, and Black is a former world champion:

A co-worker of mine has shown interest in my chess books and has asked me for a book recommendation. after many years of collecting chess books, I find that all mine are opening/strategy books that pre-suppose a lot of knowledge about the game. My friend basically knows the rules and I've taught him to read algebraic notation - that's about it. Can anyone recommend a good starting instructional...

This is the latest release from the Committee to Free Bobby Fischer. The bottom line is that Fischer has appealed against the decision to deny him refugee status, but officials have nonetheless threatened to deport him to the US today. Deportation today would be illegal, because he has a right to have his appeal heard. (Even if someone doesn't appeal, they are supposed to be allowed seven days...

Anyone have any ideas for good "advanced chess books"? I am rated a little over 1900 and enjoy going through multitudes of game collections, but I'm looking for something a little different. I've been through "Reassess Your Chess" (Silman), "The Middle-Game in Chess" (Znosko-Borovsky), "Judgement and Planning in Chess" (Euwe), "Art of Attack" (Vukovic), "Pawn Structure Chess" (Soltis), and...

If you could please take a look at this: http://allenbeys.powerfulhosting.com/products/full/9132.jpg This is a Jaques oak chess set. The board, I think, is attached to the case and sort of swivels out or unfolds from the box in an unusual way. I was just curious if there was a special/common name for this type of set. I am trying to find a replacement for a friend, and I wanted to look around...

I witnessed an absolutely disgusting player at the USOPEN: He was a senior player with all sorts of open wounds on his arms He constantly picked his teeth (with both hands) and then would touch the pieces leaving fragments of decaying food/flesh on the pieces and board Next he would belch constantly with no effort to stop himself and just being a spectator many feet away I could smell a very...