Here's the list of books i've got for sale at the moment. all books are in excellent shape, and are paperbacks, and are in algebraic notation unless otherwise noted- (H) hardback...(DJ) dust jacket...(D) descriptive...17$ The Middlegame, Book One-Euwe and Kramer The Middlegame, Book Two-Euwe and Kramer Chess Tactics for Advanced Players-Averbakh 15$ Opening Preparation-Dvoretsky Understanding...

I want to know how you judge this. In a private forum a Jewish chess programmer (Omid David) always writes hate propaganda pro Israel and against Arafat and his Palestinians. Nothing wrong with that IMO, what would you expect from an Israeli? But his lies go so far that he for example calls a late German politician, a former Vice Chancellor of Germany, Juergen W. Moellemann from Muenster, a...

Group, My memory is unphotographic when it comes to the mundane details of where a player comes from. What nation does Akopian claim as his?..

This is a question. My dad recently was laid off from work. He is a master wood craftsman and I asked him to make me a chess board for christmas, which he did. It is a beautiful piece and nicer than anything I have seen in the stores or on ebay. It there a market for this? Any suggestions as to ways to go about seeing what kind of possibilities exist for him out there? He said it takes him...

from where I can download to the game Fritz 8? th hvf

Hello, I was wondering if someone could tell me how many squares are needed on a standard chessboard? I am looking to make a chessboard, and need some starting dimensions -- any useful information would be greatly apprecaited. Thank you, Arky G, email:

I played these two in a tournament and played Bobby Fischer's openings but could not win...what is wrong with my playing ability: White: me 1250 Black: 1806 1. c4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. g3 d5 5. cxd5 Nxd5 6. Nxd5 Qxd5 7. Bg2 e5 8. O-O Be6 9. d3 Qd7 10. Ng5 Bg4 11. Re1 Be7 12. Ne4 O-O 13. Qa4 f6 14. Qc2 b6 15. a3 Nd4 16. Qc4+ Be6 17. Qc3 Rac8 18. Rb1 Nb3 19. Qc2 Rfd8

=====THIS IS A REPOST=====PLEASE REPLY TO NEWSGROUP====== A few questions I would like to ask readers, if I may: A lot of sites out there offer chess by email with a graphical interface (ie: redhotpawn.com, playchess.de, itsyourturn.com) Are there any sites out there offering this service free of charge without limitation to users? And, the sites that offer premium benefits with paid...

Here is the link: http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/y6sz$wix.htm Historians may try to go further, may find the original source for the info below, posted under the above link: ******* Start of the quote *******

"King's Indian Defense by FM Thomas Wolski" - Chess Mentor Course Aficionado is pleased to announce the release of a new Chess Mentor Supplementary Course on openings, "The King's Indian Defense by FM Thomas Wolski." This new course follows Wolski's extremely successful openings course, "The Sicilian Defense," released last November. The new course contains 40 richly annotated challenges...

A film is to be made about Oleg Romanishin's life in Tallin. It will be called 'Romanishin the Estonian'. Alan

Has anyone any views as to what is the best software to improve ones chess? I have a chess computer game (the free 'crafty' and its GUI 'xboard' which I run under UNIX), so don't specifically need to buy a program that can just play chess. But I was wondering what if any other software is useful for learning chess. There seems to be n-million bits of software, that say they will improve your...

First of all, let me preface this story with the disclaimer that I don't intend to do a lot of crossposting to various newsgroups with silly posts about my family and other off-topic crap, like a certain chessfellow tends to do. That said, I would like to tell you about my daughter's first game of chess. She was exactly 2 years, 3 months and 2 days old at the time. Now mind you, I have never...

What's the purpose of the miniature games in this book? I'm a beginner - would it be useful for me to just play them through and observe the openings? Kirk

Dear "publius", Heil Dubya! If Nemmers, a mercenary in the U. S. Navy, says it and it pretends to refer to human relations, of course, it's a crock. I know very few indigenous North Americans, but those with whom I have discussed the issues seem to think in terms of their own indigenous North American NATIONS (NOT "tribes"), rather than in terms of the continent. They

Kramnik has lost his first round game in Corus to Akopian, who played a brilliant move to force the win. -- Ian Burton

Are there any important omissions that belong in this list? 1996 Kasparov - Deep Blue (4.0-2.0) 1997 Kasparov - Deep Blue (2.5-3.5) 2002 Kramnik - Deep Fritz (4.0-4.0) 2003 Kasparov - Deep Junior (3.0-3.0) 2003 Kasparov - X3D Fritz (2.0-2.0) I'm not sure if this deserves to be in the same category as the above: 2002 Larry Christiansen - Chessmaster 9000 (1.5-2.5)

Vladimir Kramnik lost in 1-st round of Corus-2004 in interesting game vs. V.Akopian, vice-champion of FIDE in the year 2000. More about event on http://www.Kramnikchess.narod.ru You are still welcome to bet on Kramnik win's in 2-nd round vs. W.Wely Lines on http://www.chessbets.narod.ru Do not forget to compare the odds from different bookies!

Thought I'd share the position reached in this game as I thought it was pretty nifty... at least aesthetically. Of course not the most accurate game in the world, seeing as I blow. :)

Ah, the eternal problem of openings... There's no way I'm going to spend my limited time memorizing openings, especially with the many variations they entail. So what's the best way to learn openings? Pick one or two basic openings and study them? (e4 and d4, and, say, a couple of follow-ups) Or just learn one opening well and use it always as white, while improvising as black? Thanks, Kirk