.. It has long been known that overdoing practically anything can often lead to negative consequences, and a new study has confirmed that in at least one recorded instance, the over-consumption of certain types of fungi (or "magic mushrooms," as they are commonly called) has lead to a classic case of troll-paranoia, as shown in the following quote-lets, taken at random from google archives of one...

Here you can read on Kalmykia and its president Ilyum(d)zhinov : http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/88/351/13074_Ilyumdzhinov.html The beginning of the article is related directly to chess : President of Kalmyk autonomous republic Kirsan Ilyumdzhinov is telling the Kremlin that if Moscow dismisses him, there will be the second Chechnya in Kalmykia.Meanwhile, in republic"s capital Elista...

A while back I decided to start messing around with Visual Studio .NET and in looking for a project to work on, I decided to tackle a program for managing a simple chess club ladder. My intent is to release the initial version of the software as freeware. I have pretty much finished what I'm working on and need a few folks (probably 4-6) that are interested in helping me test the program. At...

I find these two games to be extremely rare in the sense that these are equal from move 1 to the end. 46 moves!!!. What is the possibility mathematically?

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I have seen advice around that beginners study the opening to much. So, I have intentionally put more weight on studying tactics and the endgame. My rating has gone up to 1500, and I think I am loosing games because of not knowing the opening. A friend recommended Nunn's Chess Openings. I purchased it, but it seems to be a bit monotonous. I don't have any friends my level in chess nearby...

My nephew here in the UK is a very enthusiastic chess player, and I want to give him a chess-related present for his 12th birthday. He already has chess sets, chess books, chess computers, chess programs, a subscription to a chess magazine, and he's even got the new DVD "Game Over" about Kasparov vs. the computer. I'd really like to give him something special, or at least usual, up to about £50...

Ive seen it listed in endgame books but I cant seem to find out what it is.

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I recently lost several games to 2 different players, and in both cases I felt that although our ratings were similar, their play was significantly stronger. On checking their ratings, I noticed that both had recently had much much higher ratings. Player 1 - currently rated in the high 1800s, but only last year had a blitz rating of almost 2600

On 11 Jun 2004 10:34:57 GMT, (WPraeder) wrote: As you correctly indicate the organizer can easily ban anybody that they want through other mechanisms. Then again what's the fuss as permanent banning without due process or blacklisting just doesn't happen or is not a problem. The reason for the fuss is that you, Wayne Praeder, have wasted our time including 57 postings up to...

Looking at the Chessbase site they trailed the game Serper v Nikolaidis, St Petersburg, 1993 available here http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1289099 the PGN is

I'm trying to find out the details of the Monrad system of tournament pairing. Googling just seems to bring up software packages that implement it, and complaints about "getting Black too often." Is there a site that actually explains the details of how the system works? M Man

Did Wolfgang Uhlmann ever play anything else besides the french. There has to be one game where he didn't reply 1...e6 to 1. e4. EZoto

Hi All, I would like to invite you to try my new turn based chess web site. I have been testing it with just a couple of friends for a while and now it should be ready to take on a bigger load. The url is http://www.queenalice.com. Note that I just cleared all the data, so there are just a couple of players and no games. Hopefully people will start joining in and it will become more active...

I remember when I first looked through the Fritz 6 manual and it was like learning chess all over again! -- 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.

Anand won his game against Lputian with flawless endgame technique, after controlling the initiative throughout. As did Gary, with a very nice piece sac finish against van Wely in an almost-phantasy position. And as Svidler did against Gelfand, who, perhaps for no good reason other than acclimatising to the board, resigned only after the game was long gone. Akopian coudn't make any impression...

If some are to be believed, it is perfectly legal to log someone's games on ICC, publish them as a collection, use the names of the players, and make money. I seriously doubt a court would agree with that. Even if there is no copyright violation per se, it's a clear violation of the player's right to publicity and to control who cashes in on his names.

There are so many books out there I wonder if someone could help with recommendations of books you like or find useful, best, etc. on: sicilian closed yugoslav attack Thanks in advance. --

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