Here's a webpage with 24 'White to move and win' positions that arose in RJ Fischer's OTB play. http://www.wtharvey.com/fisc.html

At 09:35 PM 8/4/2004 -0400, wrote: A number of Delegates have stated the opposite- that they do want this matter to come to the Delegates, and they do not trust it to be negotiated by a Board without their active input. The agenda is of record brevity this year, and there is more-than-ample time. This concerns major issues, such as the obvious demographic changes that are...

An intereting way of determing who is white in the first game of the Kramnik-Leko match. "Peter Leko will start the the game one with white. A two minute blitz game was held between two players to decide who would get white in game one. That blitz game was played under different rules. Adriana Madeira a representative of the Ticino region selected the f5 square, under the rules the first player...

.... in the interview (in German) at the following URL: http://www.chessbase.de/nachrichten.asp?newsid=3415 In my view, this hanky panky away from the chessboard began with Kasparov commenting on the swap between Kramnik (used to be 2nd in ELO rating, now 3rd) and Anand (used to be 3rd in ELO rating, now 2nd). Specifically, Kasparov hinted at the swap that made Anand 2nd and made the first...

So what does 'sassy' actually refer to in an American female?.. It could refer to a woman of spirit and accomplishment who is not unactractive enough to be afforded the honour of placement on the cover of Chess Life.

I replied that I do not have a real life. Didn't know that there is a zombie in this group! :-)

From: Anna Gulko To: Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 9:03 AM Subject: Fide-reform - part 2 The latest news about the FIDE president: according to Russian newspapers he granted the title International Grandmaster to Qaddafi. Since the times when Caligula made his horse a Roman senator nothing more bizarre has happened. Is Mr. Ilumzhinov the owner of the IGM title? It...

From TV Guide description of show at 8 PM ET: "Joan's assignment is to join the chess club at school, a move that threatens her social status."

On 22 Jul 2004 00:30:50 GMT, (Recmate) wrote: Final unofficial results- top two are elected Elizabeth Shaughnessy 712 Randy Bauer 687 Sam Sloan 349 Mikhail Korenman 305 David Huff 197 Wayne Praeder 161

NewsTrove has a daily list of latest articles on Bobby Fischer and chess in general. The URLs a http://newstrove.com/cgi-bin/search.pl?search=Fischer+chess&title=Bobby%20Fischer http://newstrove.com/cgi-bin/search.pl?search=chess&title=Chess&context_words=fischer+bobby+check+checkmate+match+tournament+pawn+fide

NewsTrove has a daily list of latest articles on Bobby Fischer and chess in general. The URLs a http://newstrove.com/cgi-bin/search.pl?search=Fischer+chess&title=Bobby%20Fischer http://newstrove.com/cgi-bin/search.pl?search=chess&title=Chess&context_words=fischer+bobby+check+checkmate+match+tournament+pawn+fide

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From www.chesstalk.com I am sorry to bring some tragic sad news to the chess community that Bryon Nickoloff my brother has past away at around 12.30AM August 3rd peacefully in his sleep at North Bay General Hospital. As most people knew Bryon had battled cancer for over 5 years couragously and never gave up. I know from seeing him the last few days that he had the strongest will to live and...

On 1 Aug 2004 08:26:09 -0500, Alberich wrote: In article , jcfernandez71 says... Polgar/Krush/Zatonskih/Shahade. John Fernandez OMG! Jen Shahade BEAT Rusadan Goletiani?! That's unbelievable. Is there a link showing the games of the Women's Championship? And who is the US

Anyone know where I could find a list of Karpov's last five years tournament results? I have looked ont eh web but it is mindbogglingly complicated and there does not apear to be a list anywhere. Muchas Gracias

***BEGIN ARTICLE*** Technicality delays Bobby Fischer asylum application Updated 10:33am (Mla time) Aug 04, 2004 Agence France-Presse TOKYO, Japan -- Fugitive US chess master Bobby Fischer's application for asylum in Japan has been delayed due to a technicality, his lawyer said Tuesday.

Can I ask two questions? 1)Is there a way one can play beginners/entry level electronic chess via a domestic TV? Is there anything DVD based? Would it be possible to route a handset this way? 2)Which computer chess program(if any)would posters recommmend for an absolute beginner? Something with a move by move comment/instruction would be ideal.

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...