Aryeh Davidoff: Those who will pass by this masterpiece are definitely to rob themselves of an invaluable joy... More than a Grandmaster by Lev Khariton On February 19, David Bronstein celebrates his 80th birthday... When I think of grandmaster David Bronstein, for some reason I never

Chess Monthly, 1857, says that Staunton is playing a match against an amateur from Mexico. Has anyone ever heard of such a match? Jerry Spinrad

I have only one chess book, which covers all the aspects of the game Now, I want to buy a chess opening book for the first time in my life. I am a very low level player as you can guess. Any recommendations?

A new server for playing chess on the Internet and meanwhile to chat about chess problems and training. You can access to CHESSFRIENDS.ORG by Winboard http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/winboard/winboard-4_2_7a.exe choose at starting "Use an Internet Chess Server"

It seems that complaintss about too much theory go very far back, well into the romantic era. What is the oldest such complaint known? I found this one in an Austrian paper called The Humorist, August 27, 1858. Reporting on the Morphy-Loewenthal match, with Morphy ahead 7-3-1, the writer claims to be a strong chessplayer (just a pawn weaker than Grimm), but that pure chess has been replaced with...

Frank Camaratta has resigned from the USCF Executive Board over the decision by the board to "outsource" the books and equipment business. I believe that the decision to outsource the books and equipment business is a major mistake which may well be the death knell of the USCF. Over the last 65 years that the USCF has been in business, the only consistently profitable area has been the sale of...

When did he last play? Best rating. Dates? Help me, please.

This first CUSTOMER review on this page at Amazon.com: http://makeashorterlink.com/?D3A124157 I have a guess as to who the author of the review is; maybe someone here can say for certain.

He is currently the strongest player and should be invited in the strongest tournament. Or is it that the morally bankrupt Gary used his influence somehow to keep him out so that he may win and keep his rating points from coming down.

I didn't know that Elo ratings were used for other sports. If you put 'World Football Elo Ratings' into Google the top link should give you 'eloratings.net' - I couldn't get the link on my browser bar. France is currently top with a rating of only 2022 - even I could beat them! Alan

My beloved brothers in chess: I am so happy to be back with you again. I know how much you all missed me. Remember all the fun we used to have with The Drunken Lord? I miss him too! I haven't been a regular here since I challenged everybody to solve a problem in a certain number of moves, and then called everyone who proved it couldn't be done an idiot. I was kind of embarrassed, so I stayed...

Are there any sites where you can analyse a position onine with a chess program. For example a site where I can set up a position and see what, for instance, Crafty has to say about it. cheers dd

Chess will be solved in the year 2168. At least, that's the interesting theory proposed on this web page: http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~kunegis/hack/chess/ The text below is quoted from that web page (view the web page to see the superscript and other formatting correctly). My comment: Will distributed computing (e.g. the ChessBrain project) help in attempts to "solve" chess sooner?

What are the best movies about chess? Searching for Bobby Fischer has got to be the absolute worst.

In a game with intermediate/expert chess players, if you blunder away a piece it usually makes good sense to resign because there is little doubt that your opponent will use the advantage to win. My theory is if the game is between beginners, however, you should *not* resign in such positions. Two reasons: REASON 1: It is not the person who blunders *first* who should lose, but the

Why does he need to hide in Japan? His father was a German citizen, so he's a German too, and can easily settle there. Germany does not extradite its citizens anywhere. Marco -- Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG

I have the following list of books for sale. They come from a smoke free home. Please send me offers. Neil McDonald, Planning, 1995 United Kingdom, pb, great condition Angus Dunnington, Pawn Power, 1994 United Kingdom, pb, great condition Irving Chernev, Logical Chess Move By Move, 1957 Simon & Schuster NY, pb, slight wear on back binding

"Gregory Topov" wrote: Why beginners should not resign after blunders in blitz/rapid. REASON 1: It is not the person who blunders *first* who should lose, but the person who blunders *most*. b) A losing example

Who had the most dominant period of chess ?Kasparov's run since winning the championship...Fischers run from winning the Interzonals thru claiming the World Championships..Tal 1959-1960...Alekhine from 1927-early 1930's..Capablanca just prior to losing to Alekhine..Lasker holding the World Title for 27years..Rubinstein 1912 (incredible tournament record that year)Morphy,Karpov 1975-85..other...

I started playing chess a little less than a year ago, I have only played online via ICC, and I want to check my rating progress as compared to how others progress after a year of play. Are there any sites online that correlate chess ratings with years of play? My initial ICC rating was about 1000, and I'm around 1550 now. Thanks.