there has been much debate as to who is the best chess player of all time and it seems it almost always comes down to 2: bobby fischer and gary kasparov. setting aside that debate for the moment (just assuming that they are 1 and 2, you pick the order) who would you consider next in line?

Hi, Next week I will be visiting New York for a few days. I heard there are some shops which are specialized in chessbooks. Does anyone know where I can find them? Thanks Wim

(Parrthenon) wrote: Morten Sand was considered one of the REFORMERS in FIDE, an improvement on the likes of a Makropoulos or a Ghobash. Maybe he is. But he is still a snake. How exquisitely low. Larry Parr's personal name-calling against Morten Sand is irrelevant to the facts of the dispute between GM Vadim Milov and FIDE. One notes that he does not dispute FIDE...

Is Nigel Short still the highest rated player in Britain?

A common misconception weak players have is that they are weak and the strong players are strong only because the strong players have memorized more opening book lines. In the game of Scrabble, it is common for strong players to offer weak players "Dictionary Odds". Players who are not good at scrabble are allowed to look up words in the dictionary, which the strong player cannot do. It turns...

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Oy, Topalov does not seem to have enough compensation for the gambitted pawn or does he?

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.... perhaps because Radjabov did not put on his holographic sunglasses on as I suggested! The parallel game between Topalov and Kasimdzhanov looks like a draw with Queens in such an open position ... hoping for interesting tiebreak games tomorrow! These geniuses may play exciting games inspite of rapid, etc.

Adams proved it, as did the other guy who played the French against him and got a +2.07 position against him. He needs to study the opening a lot more. The steady diet of garbage openings American players served up took their toll on him when he hit the big time. Hopefully he'll learn and expand his repertoire before the next cycle. --

.. Short is a good player, but his information about who his opponent was in those games is no better than anyone else's information. A man one match away from being the Chess Champion of the World is described as merely "a good player". A man who had yet to play GARRY KASPAROV is described as being just "one

Hi! Just the question in the Subject. I'm really stuck but the computer don't care about me. thx.

Kasimdzhanov's performance rating at the WCC is identical to Topalov's regular FIDE rating, 2737. Makes for interesting games ...

My copy of MSMG is packed away, but I'm reasonably sure that ChessBase's MegaBase 2002 version of this game is wrong. Here I give Mednis's version as the main line & the CB version as a variation...

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Morten Sand was considered one of the REFORMERS in FIDE, an improvement on the likes of a Makropoulos or a Ghobash. Maybe he is. But he is still a snake. How exquisitely low. One notes that he does not dispute FIDE having sent the invitation on the day of arrival. John Fernandez will note, correctly in a warped sense, that Milov could have gotten to Tripoli SOMEHOW. If it were too late to...

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I've recently had to re-install Fritz 8 on my laptop. I go to File, Print, Publish Game to publish my games on my various websites and after it asks for a filename and I select a directory to save the files to, it acts like it's publishing. After about 20 seconds, I get this pop-up message: "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Runtime Error!

Please confirm that the ChessBase score is correct & the Mednis score is incorrect.