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...

Sam Sloan's 500 Words Candidates Statement (This is not final. I will finalize it tomorrow.) The USCF was founded in 1939. For 60 long years, the federation struggled, often on the brink of collapse. Finally, however, the USCF reached its peak in 1999. In that year, it had $6.5 million in sales, more than 90,000 members and a reserve of $2 million. At that point, the federation insiders decided...

is there anyone who can tell me-- a) where's the complete list of this honorable awards? B) when their "book of the year" award was started?

http://www.cartoonbank.com/prints_currentissue.asp?mscssid=SBVN27BBXAL79NV9K2KEDBXC5V7C3H31&sitetype=1 (if your newsreader splits the above link, just copy paste it back together)

A really great idea! Mega props to those kids in Mass-of-two-****s. http://www.cellphonesforsoldiers.com/ Undoubtedly Ol' Jerry Bibuld and his conspiracy friends will pooh-pooh the idea of supporting Uncle Sam's "hired assasins" and "murderers," but I'm gonna donate and I encourage everyone to do the same. Regards,

Derren Brown the UK "Mind Control" showman - a sort of British David Blaine, performed this totally obvious and very old trick where he "won" a simul against 8 top UK players (including Hodgson, Ward and Emms) and one weak club player. The trick was just that half of the masters played Black and half White so he just played them off against each other and then beat the 9th weak club player in...

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I emailed the USCF telling them that I didn't get my April 2004 issue of Chess Life about 3 days ago. Does anyone know how long it will be before they reply? I had to go out and buy it so I didn't miss it. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. Regards, Jeff

Can anyone recommend quality/classical novels involving the game of chess, and chess players? (Besides Nabokov's wonderful "The Luzhin Defense" of course.) Great non-fiction reads on chess are also of interest.

www.ruschess.com is featuring the XI Russian Chess Club Championship in Sochi. A rare appearance by 2732 rated A. Morozevich +3 other 27xx players Most games of interest can be replayed on a game-replay engine at the ruschess site, as well as download features for .pgn game scores. A very remarkable French Defense occurring between Bologan and Dolmaov

Does anyone know if the 1972 Fischer-Spassky world championship coverage that PBS aired can be found anywhere? I looked on the PBS website, but I couldn't find anything there, and they don't respond to inquiries about programs aired before 1994. Also internet searches have info about the PBS show, but nothing about if you can get your hands on it. Any info is appreciated...

Here is a quote about the great mathematician, Edmund Landau, from: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Landau.html or http://tinyurl.com/298lt "Landau was always interested in mathematical

I draw a game of chess on ICC (45 0) which I *think* I should have won, although it ended in a draw. I had a queen at the end, my opponent a knight. For a long time I was trying unsucessfully to checkmate my opponent, but each time I tried, his knight got in the way. I was eventually running low on time (I had about one minute, my opponent 38 mins), and managed to get my queen and king falked by...

Yes, all leading players refused to participate: Anand, Karpov, Svidler, Ponomarev, Bareev, Khalifman, Shirov, etc.

Email chess, correspondence chess, real time chess, OTB with a good friend….. All these kinds of chess are great fun, and I enjoy them all. If you are playing any email games etc. and are between moves you might want to swing into www.Uchess.com. This is a new real time chess site with under 200 members. Now is your chance to swing in if you have some extra time and play a quick or 1 hour...

Does someone in soc.culture.magyar know if travel to Hungary was officially banned by the U.S. State Department in 1950? In a chess newsgroup we have a question whether the U.S. Grandmaster Samuel Reshevsky was forbidden to participate in a tournament in Budapest, or whether it was his own decision not to go. David Ames

Why is it taking the USCF so long to update their ratings? If the USCF so understaffed, does it take a genius to figure out that they need to hire people? Maybe that is what all those USCF committee discuss all day...If this Sam Sloan guy were in charge, maybe everything would be better.

Did you guys ever realize what an asset Sam is to this board and to US chess in general? He is a bonefied villain. He is easy to attack, bites back, and posts tons of chess gossip and info to counter and argue against. He makes this group interesting.

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