Aryeh Davidoff: Lev Khariton's 200 Words on Soviet Chess School January 26th, 2004 About two years ago there was a heated discussion at www.kasparovchess.com as regards the so-called Soviet Chess School. Practically, all the analysts of this site (GM Sergey Shipov being, so to speak, their ring-leader) were dead against me single-handedly defending the view that the Soviet Chess School had never...

I should be very glad that my son is showing sucha huge interest in learning chess but I am a bit perplexed on how to each him at this young age. He knows how to set the board up for black and white. He has a great memory. He knows how the pieces move although he can forget that a piece can go long range. He forgets that the horse can go up 1 and over 2 as much as it can go up 2 and over 1. It...

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Jerzy's Ciruk's recent comment on the Kremlin and Kramnik has spurred me to this piece of chess trivia; is there a list of players who have names similar, but not necessarily identical, to those of revolutionaries? I can immediately think of three: Boris Gelfand we all know about (I hope), he can be paired with the revolutionary Parvus, whose real name was Alexander Gelfhand or Helphand. I won't...

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Drop the Seirwan Prague/Dortmund agreement. I'd bypass the stupid knockout tournament idea that FIDE is floating around. I'd choose the matches this way: GM Judit Polgar vs GM Peter Svidler quarterfinal match with the winner facing GM Vishy Anand or Kasparov. GM Peter Leko vs GM Vassily Ivanchuk quaterfinal match with the winner facing GM Classical World Champion Kramnik.

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I just listed a number of opening books on eBay, including titles on the Catalan, the Nimzo-Indian, the Bogo-Indian, and the Queen's Indian. Thought some of you might be interested.

Hello there, does anyone know true Christian name of Swiss IM Charles Partos. Partos was Romanian expatriate who left for Switzerland during Iron War era. Charles was apparently given name for purposes of the Swiss people only since the Romanians do not own up to know this sort of name (Charles) in local language. What was his original name then?

Back in my day, the 50-move draw rule was extended to 100 moves for certain endings that require more than 50 moves to win. Something I was reading recently implied that the extension to 100 moves was no longer in effect. Is that right? ------------------------------------- Replace you know what by "j" to email.

My thanks to Richard Peterson for pointing out the official USCF Press Release announcing the appointment of Bill Goichberg as USCF Executive Director. I had forgotten that Richard is such a big fan of Bill. The press release is posted at http://www.uschess.org/news/press/uspr0402.php On 23 Jan 2004 17:00:44 GMT, (ASCACHESS) wrote:

Aryeh Davidoff: Not to be missed! Lev Khariton's deeply personal insight into the life and personality of Mikhail Tal.I wonder who will dare to award prizes for chess journalism to Sierawan and his likes after reading Lev's masterpiece? Mikhail Tal, the Chess Player Ahead of Chess By Lev Khariton I remember well the last day of June in 1992. Exactly ten years ago! I

"M.B (ml)" wrote in message ... MAKE MONEY!!!MAKE MONEY!!! MAKE THOUSANDS!!! I found this on a bulletin board and decided to try it: I don't care about the useless pre-fabricated crap this message usually says. All I say is, it works. Continue pre-fab crap.

Folks, Please forgive my lack of chess wisdom! Can someone explain to me how these two laws apply? 6.12 If both flags have fallen and it is impossible to establish which flag fell first, the game shall continue. 10.3 If both flags have fallen and it is impossible to establish which flag fell first the game is drawn.

Hello, I want to ask you for advise. My personality is not identified as a man with observant abilities. Unfortunately this is obvious with my style of playing chess. I have lost important games because I did no see a simple combination in one move. Usually I am good to find the right strategic plan to win but this is useless when I cannot see the simple combination. I believe that I am good when...

What are the selections for the twelve best games that Raymond Keene makes in his book "Duels of the Mind: The Twelve Best Games of Chess"? -- Gregory Topov --------------------------------------------------------------------- "I don't necessarily agree with everything I say." - Marshall McLuhan

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i am a reasonable chess player - i know all the different strategies and stuff and can win quite a few games. now i need to know all the different openings, endgame scenarios, and other stuff i minght not know about if anyone knows a website where an amateur can find all this stuff for free can they please email me - i havent had any luck thanks youi

I feel sorry for the great Reuben Fine. He was the strongest player in the world in 1938-39. Even if WWII hadn't happened Alekhine would never have granted him a match - even though he apparently offered Keres a few cracks at the title during the war. When the war ended Fine was out of practice and Botvinnik wasn't; so I think MMB would have won the 1948 WC tournament whether or not R Fine took...

This game is archived over on ICC, and it seems to me that Akopian had a win with pxp+, but instead resigned. What am I missing here? Tom