"This is our new series devoted to those, who did not earn worldwide credit adequate to their chess skills and Olympic achievements. One of them is certainly Isaac Kashdan (born 1905), relatively unknown US player. In fact he was one of strongest players of the world in early 30's. Even Alekhine mentioned one day that Kashdan might be next World Champion. (...)" Read more at...

A call to the USCF Offices has revealed a gaggle of disgruntled and disgusted gripers who have filed petitions to be elected to the USCF Executive Board. Many of those filing are unknown in the world of chess. More are expected to file before the final deadline on Wednesday. The only significant person who has not filed thus far is Arnold Schwarzenegger. Therefore, somebody should draw up and...

Anyone out there like cricket? In cricket PriceWaterhouseCooper's Ratings are used http://www.cricket.pwcglobal.com/cricket/cricket.htm which give a cricketer a rating between 0 and 1000. The rating is worked as described here http://nrich.maths.org/public/viewer.php?obj_id=1385. I have a feeling that this system is more accurate at determining ability

G'day gruppen, Recently while happily playing chess on ICC I was disagreeably informed my right to add time to my opponents clock had been stopped. In effect unregistered players are now denied this privelege. I feel for my victims & like to encourage them from time to time with a little extra of the aforementioned. It would seem that some dictatorial fungus at ICC is now truly laying down the...

Some years ago I was playing in a non-rated team match. The opposing team consisted of scholastic players. I was recruited to play first board for the Lynchburg team because our team was short one player. I played a nice combination and won a piece in the opening. I was thinking about having the game published. However, my opponent refused to resign. He just kept playing. Finally, I was two...

Hi there, We just put live a new online chess server with a lot of new features(solve puzzles, integrated instant messaging, etc...) and a easy and powerfull interface to enjoy the Game! We've tested it a lot over the last several months and we are now ready to take the big hit of live testing! It's a completly new platform of both client and server written from the ground up, and it will give...

We should discuss, either now or later, what should have been done differently to prevent this from happening. I believe that because of this incident the provision that the winner of the US Championship gets a spot on the Olympic team will be dropped. That is a new rule anyway. A few years ago, an even lower rated player, Elina Groberman, won the US Woman's Championship. She has never even...

Clear Day If you think I doctored the info (I didn't), you can see for yourself at: http://ourworld.cs.com/dubuquechess/id15.htm?f=fs This game is annotated by the resident idiot Matt Nemmers himself(I added to his feeble annotation somewhat). Nice 904 rating Matty boy! If you had any doubt about this imbecile being a fetal-alchohol baby, just look at the

Subject: Sir George Thomas Bart From: (Jerome Bibuld) Date: 2004-03-23 11:51 AM Eastern Standard Time Message-id: Dear Mr. Farmer (?), Heil Dubya! I once played an ICCF game against a member of the West London Chess Club and

Hi! i'm 30 years old, electronic engineer, have a job that has to do with the net, good knowledge of the TCP/IP protocol (and all the family) some time to use... because of my job I have plenty of band and plenty of space on the net. Plus I have tecnichal competence, but I have no idea of what to do with them: i would like to make something for chess on the net (set up a server? a web page? an...

Chess Query Language is a wonderful tool, developed by Lewis Stiller and Gady Costeff, to find positions and themes in game- or endgame study databases. It is much more powerful than any existing facilities. Read my piece about it in Open Chess Diary on http://www.timkrabbe.nl/chess Tim

I've received several info which lead me to think that there might have been many suspicions of cheating coming from ICC speedtrap group in the Dos Hermanas tournament, justifying ICC of kicking out of suspected participants. ComradeZukovsky seems that he would be willing to speak up: "1. I have unfairly been disqualified from the Dos Hermanas Tournament and so will be seeking a refund and not...

Hi All: I've been playing since I was 3 (32 years), but am still a weak club player (900 OTB, 1400 Yahoo, etc). I once paid a 2000 player to analyze my games; and, while that was useful, it was less so than I hoped for. He basically saw every other move that either I or my opponent made as an error. He did say I seemed to have about a 1600-level understanding of strategy (I have been playing a...

I asked my friend Dimitrije Bjelica about the information that he could become General Secretary of FIDE (if Gata Kamsky become FIDE President). He has informed me that Mr. Kamsky and he plan to build the house for young chess players from all over the world, in Igalo (Serbia and Montenegro). It would be nice and could have great importance in the chess progress and chess education in this part...

I have been trying to transfer databases from my desktop to my laptop either via a transfer cable or by copying them onto CDs and floppies and loading them. This doesn't work, even with my own games. How do I do this? NM Dale Sharp

Corruption??: Did the USCF change rules so as to block "Dream Team" from competing? It has come out in the last 24 hours that in August 2003 the Activity Rules for USCF Invitational Competition were changed. The new rules are posted at: http://www.uschess.org/scholastic/03inviterequirements.php I would like to know who changed these rules and the process by which

2004 Tour website http://hometown.aol.com/rmille9601/myhomepage/index.html Russell Miller, Chelan WA

I have played the Petrov successfully for many years and I still have not figured this out. Maybe some of you masters in here can give me a hand. After 1. e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe4 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe5 5. d4 d5 6. Bd3 Bd6 7. 0-0 0-0 The move 8 . Re1 is given no attention by virtually any resource on this defense. The few that do explain that Re1 is no longer played because after 8... Bg4 9 Bxe4...

Hi! I play chess on the net very often (on server FICS). Sometimes the server sends me the scores of my games by email (in a standard PGN format), so I have to save the message as a text file and then open it with another program. Is there a way to make a mail FILTER that automatically saves messages with certain rules? This would be of much help!!

Clear Day WARNING ALL NEWSGROUP MEMBERS..... "BOOKUP" is a scam being run by a single, out-of-work, hack programmer! Mike Leahy is a known liar, thief, and con-man that runs this software scam involving something called "BOOKUP". First, he offers you some software for free in order to get your email address. Then, he plies you with emails trying to get you to purchase his paid versions of the...