I know this is from left field but I thought I'd give it a whirl. I read a fictional article in a chess magazine, maybe 5 years ago, about a guy who had woke up one day and was "blessed" with having the ability to make the perfect chess move in every situation. He was unbeatable and would only lose when it was intentional so as to not blow his cover. Does anyone remember reading this? If so,...

I played in the Midwest team tournament on the weekend and noticed a column alongside the team score entitled USATx2. I am assuming that it is a tie-breaker value, but was wondering what anyone else knew about it's calculation, etc. For example, does it only look at the team score in a round or does it look at individual player's results. Marty

I found the following entry in an old Austrian newspaper. Not that I believe everything I read, but I wonder if there is a story in it somewhere. Any guesses as to who/what it might be referring to? I don't know the professions of all the major chessplayers at the time, which might be useful in ferreting out the truth behind this. Anyone know how much 3500 Thaler would translate to in, say,...

They have celebrities playing poker on TV. Why don't they have them playing chess as well? or do some sort of reality show where people play chess in a tournament. that is a novel idea since nobody has ever played in a chess tournament before.

Why doesn't she play this event anymore? Donan

SCID has all kinds of separate windows, eg the game/board window, a PGN window. All these separate windows complicate task switching, because it's difficult to bring up all the SCID windows at the same time. Is there any way to integrate or combine all the SCID windows into one separate window, so SCID shows up just once in the task bar? This will make task switching easier, so I can restore...

this is a great and free site for playing chess http://gameknot.com/?rfr=khjudeh

Does anyone know where I can find the results of winners of the USATE 2004 played in Parsippany this weekend..

A 10 player FIDE/USCF Rated RR held over two weekends in Bellevue Washington. Sponsored by the Washington Chess Federation. Information below supplied by David Bragg. More details might be found at http://www.nwchess.com and in future issues of NORTHWEST CHESS Magazine one of the few monthly chess magazines in USA. Round 9: Slava Mikhailuk (2402) - David Bragg (2207) 1-0 William Schill (2253) -...

I asked this on the computer board but nobody responded ... This IVAN computer is made by excalibur and it talks to you and say " i will destroy you " i will make you call me uncle Ivan.... Anyway the store is going out of business and it dropped the price from 70 $ to 48 $ and i bet if i go there on their last day i can get them down to 40 $ to 45 $ ???? Just wondering if someone played it...

Did any chessplayer ever shoot himself at the board in a tourney? (NOTE: I don't mean felt like it, nor do I recommend it) !!

It is only Feb 10/11 right now, but the first great chess tournament of the year 2004 already feels like it has happened years ago. It brought a fine victory to Anand, who is the top **active** player in the world these days (or months). His results in classical chess are supported by his domination of the active chess. And still, the finish of the tournament made his result a bit less shiny. He...

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Sam, Any new updates on the current state of the USCF. I haven't seen any post from you in a while. Leopold

In friendly games, do what you want. If the game is still interesting, play on. BUT: 1. Resigning when you have no real chance of winning is the mark of a good sportsman. 2. The argument that you can't learn and improve by resigning doesn't hold water, because by resigning and resuming play with the same player or another, you are working on the part of the game where your difficulty lies. If...

If he would have defended his title would he have played Karpove ? How many of HIS top ten GM's did he play ? Saw the thread below on Fishers top ten GM's. Were does he live anyone know ? How old his he ? Is he a millionaire ? Why was he so strange , it seems to me that if i won the Championship i would have wanted to defend it and try to keep it as long as i could . Why didn't he want to defend...

Can any one point me to more information about him. Seems like he was a professor for a college in Maine and lived in Bangor. Thanks Russell Miller, Chelan WA