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A new chess client to play online appears! Download it, it is a convekta product.

Does anyone have any experience with or comments about chessanytime.com? It appears to be a free internet chess server similar to FICS, although not as well populated. -- Gregory Topov --------------------------------------------------------------------- "I don't necessarily agree with everything I say." - Marshall McLuhan

I just stumbled upon this website today, with a PGN of the games in Kasparov's My Great Predecessors Vol 2: http://www.queensac.com/chessblog/bookgames/kasparov/mgp2games.htm -- Gregory Topov --------------------------------------------------------------------- "I don't necessarily agree with everything I say." - Marshall McLuhan

Watching Linares, I noticed a steady stream of comments about how boring Kramnik is, about how he only draws, never plays exciting lines etc etc. But when you look closely, so far in this tournament, Kramnik has: Tried out a whole new opening repertoire. Really pressed Kasparov with the Black pieces Round 5. Uncorked a superb novelty against Topalov in Round 7 and crushed him. Again introduced a...

In article " wrote in message ... The above French site hates Germans and the Administrators display abusive behaviour towards decent German players. Lots of disconnection in a won mittelshpill. Could someone let us now of a good chess site despite www.playchess.com ? ...

Hello chessamtes, Trying to find some multimedia files (avi, mpeg, quicktime, etc) of some of the international chess games that have been played by players like Kramnik & Kasparov (I don't mean the moves but the actual tournament photage). Could not find any in eMule. Any suggestion on where to find such files on the Internet will be appreciated. Many thanks, Shengi Mori

I downloaded two files that I thought were games of Bobby Ficher from http://www.pitt.edu/~schach/ I want to run them but I don't know what program to run them with. The file formates are DIM, BIC, BGM, BDY, VWR, NDX, BMA, DSC. I got this from the file fis60-ca.zip. Any one know how I can take a look at them?

There is a 300 page book called "Life of Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa", written by W. Uhl. One library (University of Texas at Austin) is listed as having the book. Has anyone ever seen this book, and are there any comments? Many strong players from the pre-Steinitz era seem to lack a good biography, though I believe there are obscure books about some of them. To me, Deschapelles (due to...

Set diatribe on Why do top GMs (Kramnik, Kasparov, Anand, etc.) have so much trouble with the top computers? Because they have gotten soft. They are used to playing only a one or two dozen games a year and out of those, less than half are real games going past the opening (play 15 moves in standard theory, offer draw, collect paycheck). When they face a computer, they are scared because...

An add at ruschess.com reads "Distance chess is a game played on a habitual board with everybody all over the world going no out of doors." Can anyone able to read the Russian version please provide a more accurate translation? Greenmantle

On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 07:40:51 -0800, Mike Murray wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/01/books/01MASL.html Except of course the NYT website requires a login... bah humbug. Jon Beckett

The Corus people did it right.Is there any Live internet coverage of Linares 2004 in English?

Just reinstalled Fritz7 on my PC. Checked and found a service pack (October2003) on Chessbase website. I d/loaded and installed it, rebooted and my Fritz settings are now in German. How can I change these back to English? Can I still play on the server that is available to Fritz users? At the moment the server seems to be down. Thanks Harry

The new book "Bobby Fischer Goes to War", (about the 1972 Fischer-Spassky match) by David Edmonds and John Eidinow, is reviewed by Roger Lowenstein in the March 4 Wall Street Journal, page D10.

Are there any strong players using this opening? MfG Andreas Lenz

KidDon wrote: "Ray Gordon" wrote: Are there any REALLY strong players who want this to happen? We've been over this before. The moves of the games (or positions), even with mention of the players or the event, are not copyrightable. see, e.g. http://www.ernietheattorney.net/ernie_the_attorney/2004/01/are_sporting_ev.html I don't think...

Check out my lastest weekly tactical problem up on my website at amchesscoaching.com Also my annotated game from Tuesday Night Open is also up. Leopold

Hello there, could anyone please support my knowledge about when (just the year matters) the following players were awarded their IM titles. Pachman Matulovic Portisch Unzicker Uhlmann

How about playing with this chess notation ? http://angelink.be/?StenoChess .... and who will solve the 1.c3 challenge ? Regards, É. (crossposted to rec.puzzles)