In the latest radio interview Bobby Fischer says he wants Alexandra Kosteniuk in his cell when/if he is sent to the USA - pretty cool eh? Alexandra - if you are reading this post - what do you think? :-)

WGM Xu (with black) wins against (male) GM Dao with a petit combinaison a la Capablanca, very pretty! http://www.chessbase.de/2004/kualalumpur/dreipartien.htm

Over the years, I have given you some of the big reasons why I like living over in Malaysia. The kids can go to a good British curriculum international school with a demanding course of study in history and languages; the kids don't have to put up with condom instruction with bananas beginning in second grade; the kids are almost totally ignorant of American popcult; the wife loves her "social...

I have heard the word called "candidate move". Want to know more. Any web link please. -- "Combination is the heart of chess" A.Alekhine Mail to: sathyashrayan25 AT yahoo DOT com (remove the AT and DOT)

I heard a story of a player who got upset during a game and tossed his chair accross the room but he was not kicked out or banned because it turned out the fellow had forgotten his psychiatric medication that morning and it was the man's psychiatrist who had recommended chess as a way to calm and sooth the mans explosive anger. Presumably he was allowed to play after he had "taken his...

Hi, I'm typing some games from a book I'm reading and came up with something I couldn't figure out how to represent in PGN. The game ends with the resignation of the black player, and then the author analyzes a variation of what could have happened if the player hadn't resigned. So how do you enter this post-resignation variation in a PGN file?

From: Alan M. Kirshner, Ph.D. To: Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 10:30 PM Subject: No commentary needed! From Eric Hicks It seems that Peterson has sent out an email to our entire membership accusing Elizabeth of embezzling cal chess funds. Peterson is this really

Kin boosts Fischer's bid to gain German passport Bobby Fischer's brother-in-law says he has assembled the documents needed to prove the fugitive chess champion is entitled to German citizenship and should not be deported from Japan to the United States to face multiple legal charges. is at http://www.washtimes.com/world/20040830-091413-6723r.htm

A surprisingly lopsided match that Hydra won 5.5 - 2.5. Some of the games are a bit mysterious, but interesting: http://www.chessbase.de/2004/Abudhabi/komplett.htm

Good quote!!!! On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 13:02:01 +0100, banana wrote: . From the 'Washington Times': http://washingtontimes.com/world/20040830-091413-6723r.htm

So what happens when you put a lying miscreant as a treasurer of a State Chess orginization? Check out Cal Chess now. "Take the money and Run" Peterson, who has been involved in multiple squirmishes with the USCF ended up treasurer of Cal Chess, the Northern California Chess affiliate. How is Peterson, a southern california resident, even able to be on a Northern California board? And why does...

Hurricane Frances + Chess: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=hurricane+frances+florida Wish us Well

We discuss Bobby Fischer topic in our Copenhagen club and need the comments of highly intellectual Russian speaking guys who are interested in the subject. U are welcome and all ur comments will be highly appreciated. http://forum2.berezin.org/viewtopic.php?t=2207 Greetings Catherine

I've just started running the new Chessmaster 10th Ed. and noticed that the font for the menu bar is very fuzzy. The rest of the program seems to work fine and is very clear. I don't have a similar problem with any other program. Any one have any idea what the problem is and how I might fix it? Any helpful advice would be greatly appreciated.

I've just installed Chessmaster 10th Ed. and now that I try to use it says it won't run because my computer has "CD/DVD emulation software installed" and that I have to deactivate it. Does anyone know what that means and how I get Chessmaster to work? Thanks Richard

Here are some puzzles taken from the chess games of strong players of the early 20th century. Except where noted, it's "White to Move and Win". a) http://wtharvey.com/sep1a.png White mates in 4, Erik Andersen vs Hilse, The Hague, 1928 r3rk2/5pR1/pp1q1P1p/8/3p3P/P2B4/1P1Q2b1/1K6 w - - 0 1 b) http://wtharvey.com/sep1b.png Janos Balogh vs F Redeleit, corr., 1928...

.. This Gunsberg fellow seems to have overlooked the obvious: it makes no difference whether some Jews happenned to control a parcel of land prior to some Palestinians. Let's go back one more step: who exactly, controlled this very same land just prior to the Jews? Assumming they are not eradicated as a nation and/or race, then how is it that the Jews have any claim to "their" land? If they...

The website www.logicalchess.com offers quite a bit of nonsense. On one page alone, I found: *Weinstein, Norman (1950- ) Killed an 83-year old man in a nursing home - the first murder by a master. He is serving a life sentence. It wasn't Norman Weinstein, it was Raymond Weinstein. * Winter committee

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The title of "Canadian Champion" will be decided today (Monday) at 1 pm (EDT), between defending champion Pascal Charbonneau, and Eric Lawson (both from the Montreal area). They finished the 69-player 9-round Swiss with 7/9. For more details, and a link to the live games (two 30-minute + 10 second games) see: http://www.chessontario.com/2004closed