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...

"Let's face reality: Most of the males who play chess are nerds. But the females aren't." George Mirijanian

Hi, I'm trying to work out the odds for one player to beat another based on Glicko ratings - but I can't get "sensible" looking results. Can anyone check my calcs and indicate where I'm going wrong? Thanks I found this on the net: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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This post has been written as a courtesy to R.S. Haas. "The next morning (after the 2000 World Open ended) there was an exodus of chess players from the hotel. By 11:00, all that was chess had been removed from Main Street. A new group was setting up for a new convention. 'It's Mensa', a man told me." --J.C. Hallman (The Chess Artist, p. 316) Was that evidence that Mr Haas was at the 2000...

At around 8:45am EST I was not able to get on chessbase.com, chessbase.de, or playchess.com, is there a known issue? -Scott

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I'm around 1800 elo, I was watching a game on WCN between two 1300s. These are the kind of mistakes they make 1) Blunder pieces 2) Miss simple threats eg forks and skewers 3) They often don't castle and their king gets battered around the board 4) Then miss one or two move mates or combos 5) They launch into a big swapping off series of moves and come out of it materially down

http://www.academicchess.com ( Probably An April Fools Joke ! )

Hello Everyone, There is a new chess playing site with a different twist. This site offers all the same standard stuff that other chss sites offer like rankings, tournaments, individual rating, your own personal game history, no software to download, downloadable pgn games, chat, player profles and yada yada yada. What makes this site unique is that you can have as many games going as you want...

A strong come-back from the absentee player Morozevich at Monte Carlo has him leading the blindfold section, 1 point behind Kramnik in the over-all score. /Phil Innes Round 8 standings: Blindfold: 1 Morozevich 6.0 2 Ivanchuk 5.5 3 Kramnik 5.5 4 Leko 5.0