I seen a tournament set on Ebay........I was wondering if the clock is really worth 100.00 like the guy says. New to the game......thinking of playing in a tournament or two. Was wondering if this be a good deal..................... Thanks in advance. Randy http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3168538069&ssPageName= ADME:B:BN:US:1

There are obviously many people on these groups who are clueless about the purpose of the groups. The fundamental principle is that just because it has something to do with chess DOES NOT mean that it should be posted to every group that has to do with chess because "someone there might be interested." Someone on these groups might be interested in my chicken wings recipe, but that doesn't mean...

Hi! My new column on Finding the Best Move has been posted at http://www.chesscafe.com/heisman/heisman.htm. If you have any comments or questions, please e-mail me directly; I often don't follow up and check these threads. Best wishes, NM Dan Heisman www.chess.fm Q&A show Monday nights from 7-9 PM Eastern

Wherefrom do I download this program? Thanx/nsp

Can FIDE really rate players down to 1001 ?? FIDE has had a plan since Istanbul 2000 to rate all players down to 1001. The traditional floor for FIDE rated players was 2205 for men and 1905 for women, but that floor has since been dropped several times. I feel that it would be a wonderful thing for FIDE to rate players down to 1001. For example, Europe and Asia have no class prizes for chess...

According to the latest USCF press release, Baiba Mednis, widow of GM Edmar Mednis, has died. She was 64. Her husband died in February 2002. She is survived by two children, Sari, 33, and Mariss, 28. The USCF Executive Board named Mrs. Mednis "Honorary Chessmate" at its board meeting last year in Crossville, Tenn. The funeral is Saturday, Jan. 24. George Mirijanian

John McCrary's Wall of Secrecy At 10:18 PM 1/26/2004 -0800, Craig Jennings wrote: Perhaps I'm being too harsh to honest people with the best of intentions and seeing evil where there is only negligence. I apologize if that's the case, but it still should be corrected. -- Craig

Right now the way it looks you would have to say Anand is the best player in the world right now. Man is he looking impressive. Unfortunately a debacle for the NG since Dr. Jai will start posting his garbage more often. Other than that Anand is coming into his own. I don't think anyone can beat him in a match right now. EZoto

Having watched the movie, it seems to me that IBM imposed some very unusual rules during the whole match. For example, Deep Blue was locked in a room, with guards outside, and nobody (not even Kasparov or any representative of his team) was allowed in. Why so secretive? Having said that, the film makes much of IBM's failure to produce logs which could prove Deep Blue's play in Game Two was it's...

In Paolo Maurensig's novel "The Lünenburg Variation" the claim is made that during the second world war various articles of a very strong pro-nazi and anti-semitic nature appeared in the German press, signed by the world champion (Alekhine). Is this true? If so, did Alekhine actually write those articles? Thanks, Marco

Does anybody know where i could find the following book: XVIIIth World Student Team Chess Championship Mayagüez-Puerto Rico 1971, bulletin, 72pp J. Sajtar I will also welcome any games you could find on this event. Thanks for help.

How do you get a kid to play slower (and think more about their move)? In my daughter's Kindergarten through 5th grade chess club, most of the kids play very fast, my daughter included. She usually moves in within 5 or 10 seconds. Next month she is playing in a game/30 tournament, and she needs to take much more time and think about her moves. ------------------------------------- Replace you...

The next round: Round 3 Tuesday January 13 Sokolov - Adams Leko - Topalov Akopian - Timman Van Wely - Anand Bologan - Kramnik Svidler - Bareev Shirov - Zhong

I'd like to thank Dan Heisman for his very helpful program on Chess.fm. It was targeted to the average player and was full of useful information and insights. I always looked forward to recording it, so I could listen to it during the week. I guess all good things must come to an end. Thanks Dan.

I need some help. I am in charge of a chess program at my daughters school. We had our first meeting last week - great turnout. Playing levels are all over the board. I ordered Yasser Sierawans dvd, PRO CHESS. It came in today and after watching it for about an hour realized that this will absolutely bore the heck out of the kids. I found the production quality to be dated (1987) but still...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040127/wr_nm/tech_internet_worm_dc_2 I've already gotten this emailed to me about a dozen times today, and the first couple of times I almost opened it because the address looked somewhat familiar. Watch yourselves..... Regards, Matt

I find that whenever I am in the "Game Room" part of Chessmaster 9000, "The King" engine hogs all my CPU. (in WinXP I can monitor this using the "Processes" tab of Windows Task Manager). If I'm in any other part of Chessmaster (unless playing a game of course), this doesn't happen. It's understandable that it would do this if it's analyzing a game, but why should the engine hog the CPU if I'm...

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...

Anyone know where I can find them? Thanks.