Give Mike a break. As far as I know he was the first with the concept of a positional database (storing positions rather than just move sequences) and it still has features no other software has last I checked. It is the easiest and most user friendly for setting up endgame training databases, for example. So use it if it suits your needs or use something else if it doesn't. Its certainly the...

I suggest that everybody that feels annoyed by this troll to complain at (it appears that it is using the Google Groups service to make its libel/defamatory/abusing postings). I just did it. To Mike Leahy, I suggest that you change your nick to "I'm Not Mike Leahy, I'm Mike Leahy" :-) About this low life form, it appears that it finds in you a reason to live...

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The Diemer-Duhm Gambit (1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.c4) can also be played against the Caro-Kann Defense. This gambit is quite strong and gives White good kingside Attacking chances. Listed below are my 3 best Diemer-Duhm Gambit games (with my notes) against the Caro-Kann Defense setup. I have posted a chess database file called ddgcaro1.cbv in the files section of the Yahoo Unorthodox Chess Openings...

Heh heh.... The Grim Repa!

CHESSPRESS (April, 2004) www.pakchess.com IS CHESS HISTORY IN THE DOCK? By Lev Khariton No one would argue that both Bronstein and Smyslov (and Botvinnik, most likely, more than anyone else) lived under the iron heel of Stalin’s epoch. The time tested them, breaking and crushing their spirit - the same happened to scientists and writers, painters

Rethinking the Anna Hahn and US Woman's Chess Olympiad Controversy I have been rethinking the Anna Hahn Controversy. A posting by Mig, a well-known 1824 player, in his Daily Dirt column at http://www.chessninja.com/dailydirt/ sums it up: "I'd heard that the so-called secret agreement between former USCF Exec Director Niro and Susan Polgar may have been known to other members of the executive...

More than 3000 annotated games in PGN at: http://www.angelfire.com/games3/smartbridge/index.html New file: europe_echecs.zip (307 games) added fb

In his recently interview for the Russian newspaper "Moskovski Komsomolec" Kramnik said that Kasparov is no longer the best player in the world because Kasparov finished behind Leko and Kramnik in the last two Linares tournaments. It's obviously that Kasparov's strength declined rapidly and in my opinion there are already several grandmasters who are stronger than he. They a Anand, Kramnik,...

What is the current situation in chess? Let's assume the Kramnik-Leko match goes ahead. The winner is the Classical World Champion. The idea of the Prague agreement was that this winner would play the winner of Kasparov-Ponomariov, which is no longer happening. Is there a replacement match which will decide a "candidate" from FIDE, or is Kasparov that candidate already? If Kramnik wins against...

"Fifiela" wrote in message ... Executive orders are the law of the land, and have been in use since before the American Civil War. I have a quaint notion: The government should be our servant and not our master. Fischer had every right to go to Serbia to earn money from his profession. Our right to...

Are you not allowed to eat food during a chess tournament game? because I don't understand why Korchnoi complained about Karpov eating yogurt during their match. thanks

I have not been playing chess for many years. I am now slowly getting back to practice via online games. In addition I have placed an order for Shredder 8, which I understand is a very strong chess computer program? Any thoughts on using such a program to 'get back into shape' (before venturing to the local club and OTB opponents)? -- HH http://www.electronicintifada.net

I have composed a moderately complicated helpstalemate whose intended solution involves White capturing a Black unit on every move, and I want to computer-test it for soundness. I have Popeye, but it's taking forever. I thought I might do a partial soundness test by adding the condition "WhiteMustCapture," but this evidently doesn't mean what I hoped it meant, because popeye finished quickly...

I have just published 170 complete tournaments at www.behind.chesslib.no - the files are in cbv-format. -af-

Is there any chess activity (indoor or outdoor) inside the 610 Beltway of Houston, TX? It seems as if everything is outside "the loop". ( Woodlands, SugarLand,etc.) Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

The first American-born player to be awarded the GM title by FIDE was Reuben Fine (1914-1993), who received the title in 1950. Other Americans who received the title in the early years: 1954: Isaac Kashdan (1905-1985), IM title in 1950. 1957: Arthur Bisguier (1929- ), IM in 1950, and Larry Evans (1932- ), IM in 1952. 1958: Robert Fischer (1943- ), IM in 1957. 1960: William Lombardy (1937- ), IM...