Unfortunately and sadly enough it seems to be true that a) Spassky seems to like to talk antisemitic nonsense as he did this time in an interview of "New in Chess Magazine 5/2004" , just recently (around July , 20., 2004) published. b) the "NIC-Magazine" (Editor in Chief : Jan Timman !) was willing to print such rubbish.

As my playchess/ICC thread was hijacked for other, darker purposes I'd like to start a separate thread. Complete the following sentence in ten words or less Being proud of your country is like being proud of ... I once heard the idea that a flag should be replaced by a picture of your mum and dad having sex. This seems to sum it up nicely.

There is a common believe that "geniuses" are prone to early death (including suicide), or to "craziness". One would need solid statistics to support such a view (first one would have to decide who is and who is not a "genius", or one would have to classify the geniuses and the talented people on a scale from 10 to 100 say, and then one would try to get a correlation). While general dramatic...

From 'Associated Press', online at: http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/politics/9260755.htm: ***BEGIN ARTICLE*** Posted on Wed, Jul. 28, 2004 Bobby Fishcer Deportation Appeal Rejected

Please read my earlier post in this thread for the context. (Graeme) wrote: Nick wrote: (The context was snipped by Graeme.) (Graeme snipped here what he had previously written about the Jewish people being a 'racial group', which was his term for them.) Uh huh. You know, it's considered bad netiquette to cut and paste every line of a 200 line post...

At the chess emporium store in Phoenix they used to have (maybe still do) pictures of all the chess champions (8" X 10" or so, if memory serves) hanging on the wall. I think the older ones (Steinitz, for example) were drawings, but very nice. All were head shots. I did a net search but didn't find anything. Would anyone out there know if/where these I can buy copies?

They played 7 games each against another in Paris, in 1921. Deschappeles was giving the other two odds: 1 pawn and two moves. Bourdonnais and Cochrane played on even terms. Bourdonnais won both matches, and Despachelles won against Cochrane. "The Oxford Companion..." (2nd edition) claims that the score of Bourdonnais against Deschappeles was 6:1 and against Cochrane 7:0 on page 56, but

***BEGIN ARTICLE*** Monday, August 2, 2004 3:09 PM Ex-chess champ Fischer to appeal Japan deportation TOKYO- Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer, wanted by the United States for defying sanctions on Yugoslavia, will finalize an appeal on Monday against a decision by the Japanese authorities to deport him, his supporters said.

(Wlodzimierz Holsztynski) wrote: (Nick) wrote in message ...(to Graeme): (Graeme) wrote: (snipped) Fischer tried to have him killed, by first having his home address read over the radio, and following up with this: "Some Filipino who loves me...

Why didn't Lasker play at San Sebastian 1911? -- 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.

On Sunday, Aug. 1st, the Exposition Park Chess Club http://chess.expoparkla.com/] hosted its monthly, free, unrated, open 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. This latter section was assisted by Christophe Carter, who functioned as the tournament's...

.... after draws in the regular games and 1.5-0.5 in the rapid games. Kramnik is therefore in second place. Also Svidler won in the rapid games against Leko, Svidler and Leko are therefore respectively in third and fourth places. "Nice" precursor to the Kramnik-Leko match in September, it will be a match between Dortmund's second and fourth. I bet the organizer would have loved to have a match...

From SIS and the pharmaceutical industry's favourite news agency, Reuters: http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID =557864&section=news or click: http://tinyurl.com/4brqc: ***BEGIN ARTICLE***

One of the great eccentrics of the chess world, Fischer maintains that his passport was never properly revoked and that the action was taken retroactively, his supporters say. Fischer could be a 'great eccentric', or the most 'normal' burger-munching TV-watcher in the world - this doesn't make the slightest bit of difference to the FACT that his landing rights were revoked...

Dear people, Playing the Benko gambit and crushing your opponent. There is this week "STUKKEN" on http://choumicha.freeprohost.com/chess.html about. Mind you, it is WHITE with the beautiful combinations!! Analysis and 4 questions about the game mrs. WFM Hana Kubikovaover against Miroslav Forman, Prague 2003, illustrate the ideas (it is not new and not discovered by me. You can see the original...

Hi! If you live on the East Coast, you might be interested in the 2nd annual Holly Heisman Memorial fundraiser on Aug 22 in suburban Philadelphia. This tournament has free entry and if you advance enter by Aug 12 no donation is required. It is a charity event that last year attracted 98 players and raised over $1,300 for charity. So far this year we have attracted well over $1,000 in cash and...

WTB complete or incomplete set of chess pieces for Fidelity Avant guard 2100. My dog chewed up a few chess pieces from my Fidelity Avant Guard 2100. She was of course penalized.Neverless I'm in the need of either a complete set or a incomplete set to fill damages.I'm in the need of One black rook , One white rook,Three white panws and two black pawns. The set looks like the French lardy set.I...

Will Bobby Fischer Win the Endgame of His Life? An in-depth interview with GM Larry Evans, who was Fischer's former second, by Larry Parr. http://www.tentonhammer.com/gamezone/output/hammer.ASPX?Method=LoadPage&Re sourceCode=TTHNewsStory&NewsItemCode=WCNStory_Parr01&NewsCategoryCode=Site News&SessionToken= ________________________________________________________________

According to "The Oxford Companion to Chess", the first electric telegraph match was in 1844 between Washington and Baltimore. In April 1845, on the other side of the Atlantic, Staunton and Kennedy went to Gosport and took on a team of 5 or 6 opponents in London. The illustration on p. 348 depicts Staunton standing and Kennedy seated, two toppers on the table, and two telegraph operators, one...

Just browsing through the latest ICB -- and by "latest" I mean the November/December 2003 issue I got for free at the January Normal Open (the latest one I have since I haven't gotten one since joining the ICA on January 3, 2004) -- and I came across page 45, which features a US Chess Live game between Chris Merli (2068) and Colley Kitson (1661). The game covers the entire page and includes two...