Okay, this is a long shot. I'm wondering if anyone can help me track down a particular chess match I read in a book one time. It features one of my favorite Extremely Clever moves ever, but I only partially remember it. The board setup was something like this, with black pieces in lower case and white in upper case: 8 .....rk. 7 .....ppp 6 ..N..... 5 ......q.

"Angelo DePalma" wrote: Here's a genuine troll post, prompted by his mentioning me: If Angelo DePalma would prefer me not to cite some of the evidence of *his earlier trolling*, then he should *not* have practised *his trolling* of me in the first place(s). In the thread, "Lapshun's Complaint" (31 March 2004), Angelo DePalma wrote in his conclusion to...

The Duke of Brunswick, famous as Morphy's opponent, was also famously bizarre (I wrote a short article on him at one point). I believe there is a story on him in Der Humorist, June 15, 1843 (again available though http://anno.onb.ac.at). As I understand it, he and his fellow defendants were being sued for 5000 pounds damages as a result of throwing rotten apples etc at a play? Seems quite odd,...

Heil Dubya! If Scam Spam uses ANY of my photographs -- no matter where published -- he will find himself sued. This is a promise, as well as a threat. ALL of my published photographs -- among them hard copy and internet -- are published subject to a license contract between the publisher and me. NO ONE ELSE (and, in the case of Scam Spam, NOTHING ELSE) has permission to use the results of...

Just wondering, do people use computers to show opening book moves during a game? either to show suggested moves or just show percentages after the fact? Is either legal/common practice? Just curious, I keep getting waxed. If I can make it through the opening I can do well. other times I cant defend a guy from cleaning me out with his queen. It says I'm 1290 now but I've only played a few rated...

Shibby! wrote: Irony: Nobody here is voting for Nader; Nobody? Are you _sure_? that's spam from votenader.org.. anything else?

I'm looking for recommendations of books that are good at explaining specific nomenclature, especially in the openings. To you experts, open, closed, semi-open, Indian, Dragon, etc. have meaning that is lost on beginners (or idiots like me who don't have a lot of time for chess study). Open closed semi open are terms used to describe the pawn structure in the centre of the...

Hi, If you have any chesscomputers for sale, preferebly Fidelity, Saitek,Mephisto and Novag let me know. Especially interested inWood set . So dig into your closets and let me know what you have! Top dollars paid!! Charles

I'm looking for recommendations of books that are good at explaining specific nomenclature, especially in the openings. To you experts, open, closed, semi-open, Indian, Dragon, etc. have meaning that is lost on beginners (or idiots like me who don't have a lot of time for chess study). -- snip -- Perhaps you should read some of the articles on this great site: ...

Where can I find a checklist for the thinking process before each move?

Who was the first to employ the Opocensky Najdorf and when? 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 c:d 4.N:d4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be2 e5 The earliest I found is Stoltz-Klaus Junge and Paul Schmidt-Stoltz Salzburg 1942 (but with b5 and Bf3 included)

Hi all, I'm trying to remember, the books I learned chess from back in the 80's as a teen was a set of 6 blue books published in England. They were relatively thin paperbacks. Each had a big black digit (1...6) on the front with a chess piece silhouette (pawn...king). There was one on the rules, one on strategy, one on openings, one on tactics, one on the endgame, and one other. Can anyone...

I was recently in the market for a set (prior to this point I have played on computer "boards" only. While software certainly has it's place, I always found it rather lacking for trying out ideas from books, etc. It just lacked a tactile "something" such that I spent more time fooling with the interface. I did a bit of shopping around online to find a nice, but also (relatively) inexpensive set....

I play on Zone.com - Do people here think it is the best site to play on? Is there a way to save played games? Just how good (or poor) is 1800? Thanks.

Hi, Last Tuesday night, (04/06/04), I played an excellent game as White against the Dutch Defense wielded by an opponent who was 300+ points stronger tham me. Check out my win with my annotations at http://amchesscoaching.com. Let me know what you think of my play and notes. Thanks, Leopold

Does anybody know where there is a decent set of small GIF or PNG chess piece graphics that I could use? (preferrably with transparency) I have hacked PHPBB to do FEN diagrams - I just need to find some graphics from somewhere now to make the output look nice... Regards Jonathan

A tempo here, a tempo there, and pretty soon you're talking about real time.

Hello, I would be very grateful if someone could post the following statistics, if they have got them at their finger-tips (for any reasonable large- sized sample): - in what percentage of games did W castle? - in what percentage of games did B castle? - in what percentage of games did both players castle?

FIDE World Chess Champion Ruslan Ponomariov sent an Open letter to the members of ACP. He said: "The latest FIDE decisions regarding the World Championship granted exclusive privileges to GM Garry Kasparov. ... The match was unilaterally cancelled by the FIDE president, Mr. Ilyumzhinov. Unfortunately, starting with the General Assembly in Bled, the FIDE board exclusively defended the interests...

I am collecting names, addresses and e-mail addresses of chess players who are interested in playing in FIDE Rated events to be held in Oregon in 2004 and beyond. There probably will be 3 or 4 events a year. These will be invitational events. If you are interested in being invited please let me know. Some Details below and others are still being worked out. The first event is set for June 5-13,...