Lapshun's Complaint Yury Lapshun is one of the top scholastic coaches in the US. Lapshun is himself an International Master and near grandmaster strength player who played in the last US Championship. Many of his young students have performed well in the national championships and in the World Youth Championships. As one of his rival chess coaches put it, "Lapshun is the best". Now, however,...

My son is narrowing down his college choices. He's got some great options (admitted at Caltech, Harvey Mudd, Columbia, Northwestern, Washington University) and chess is not going to be the *determining* factor, but it's certainly not irrelevant. Despite what Harvey Mudd's web site (http://www.hmc.edu/admin/admission/hmclub.html) says, we've learned that there is no chess club there, and...

This post is written out of a scholarly interest in a well-known 'quotation'. In the RGCM thread, 'Civility' (27 April 2003), Jerome Bibuld wrote: "Although you may be a United Statesian, you seem to forget that, in Uhmuhrikka, when we hear the word, 'culture', we reach for our guns...." In response (27 April 2003), Simon ('Chapman billy') wrote: "...The philistine attitude of Goering seems,...

For the second time I have been playing chess at my club and there is a small boy who is playing someone else but keeps blurting "check!" "Check!" over and over. The other small child that he was playing would immediately move leadign to another "check!" This must have gone on for about 3 minutes. That may not seem long and I really can't explain why it annoys me so much but I find it very...

from http://www.olimpbase.org "OlimpBase has been designed to bring complete data for all the Chess Olympiads played in the history. As you must have noticed so far only 1927-1974 period has been done. The rest is missing. We want to be ready for October 14th, the Calvia take off. We are growing dynamically, but we are still missing some data. We are working on Haifa 1976 and Malta 1980...

More than 3000 annotated games at: http://www.angelfire.com/games3/smartbridge/

Playing chess for win/fun seems to have gone out of the window. Every top player seem to have concerned only about their ratings. They are so much afraid of going down on ratings that they would much prefer to settle with a draw against another top player. I am tired of chess and chess icons. I better move to poker now.

A chess master who is friends with the participants has just related the following story: At the conclusion of the 2003 US Chess Championship, three women were tied for the woman's prize. They were Irina Krush, Jennifer Shahade and Anna Hahn. All three of them are friends. Therefore, since both Irina Krush and Jennifer Shahade had previously won the US Woman's Championship, they decided to give...

Everywhere I turn, I see recommendations to study the endgame. I am a club player, and I have no doubt that studying the endgame will improve my overall game, but I'm not clear on exactly HOW to study the endgame. Are we talking about mate-in-2 puzzles? Or general principles? Are master endgames too subtle for club players to learn from? Or should we just buy a few endgame books? I know the...

Are there any software products that can train you in chess? I hate learning with books because it takes time to set up the board, and then you have to read the notation. I would much rather have an interactive software program to instruct me. Does one exist? Which one is the best. I am intrested in learning and training in the endgame, but a program that does more would be even better.

For the fifth straight issue, the Chess Life editor has allowed some openings and some subtitled variations to be misidentified. The April 2004 issue of CL contains about 45 games, several of which are not correctly named. Among them are LaCombe-Yamada (page 10), identified as a Vienna Game, but in reality it's a Vienna Gambit . There's a difference. Shabalov-Gallegos (page 20) is identified as a...

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(Miriling) wrote in message ... On 1 April 2004 (PBusw13724) wrote in Message-id: Nick Bourbaki: 'A tempest in a teacup' is the more familiar expression. Mr Bourbaki: I am wary about challenging you on a matter of language, in view of...

Strike a light (15) Chess Cafe and Pakistan Chess Player I looked at the Chess Cafe web site, http://www.chesscafe.com/ , after several months. Some years ago, it was my favourite site. But, many things have changed, some columnists have gone, some news have come. My opinion is that site is now worse than ever before. If somebody who has never read texts on this site opens it, he will be...

Lev Khariton: Korchnoi - professional rights or political convictions? I remember how I was rooting for Korchnoi when he was playing his matches with Karpov in 1974, 1978 and 1981. I was not alone; most of my friends in the Soviet Union, most of the people sick and tired of the communist rule and ideology wished Viktor the Terrible success in his struggle against Karpov who represented the...

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1558 The positions kimo played look exactly like the ones kasparov played against a computer in a recent match? So is this knowledge based program a lie?

Six for Sex, early 1970s movie Has anybody ever seen, heard of or know where to obtain an early 1970s porn movie entitled "Six for Sex"? Talk about a low budget film, this was a no budget film. It was shot in a seedy theatre in New York City on the East side of Eighth Avenue between 42 and 45th streets on the second floor. The actors and actresses were paid $60 each to appear in this movie....

On 31 Mar 2004 05:12:43 GMT, (HAASpittle) wrote: "Are you the infamous RSHaas? Is this your new screen name? Does the word Mensa mean anything to you? (Sam Sloan) ============ Sam, yes, HAASpittle is RSHaas. It is a screen name I've used fairly often here, so it isn't exactly new. Meanwhile, if you are elected to the EB you won't have any great effect because...

(drahmiel) wrote in message ... Jerome Bibuld wrote: How very interesting!?! I had NEVER heard or read "Storm in a teapot" until the subject posting. I assume the poster was joking. The original poster, David Richerby (of England), was not joking when he wrote (27 March 2004) of 'a storm in a teacup'.

Yesterday I uploaded "Chess with Chinese Line Pieces" at: http://www.silcom.com/~barnowl/chess-clp.htm This contains several new problems and a couple endgame studies, all using one or more of the Pao (Cannon), Vao and Leo. These "Chinese" pieces and some simple chess problem terminology are defined in the text. There is also a link to the solutions, and to a Lewis Carroll parody that contains...