On 22 Dec 2003 04:25:44 GMT, (ChessLies) wrote: Former USCF President Denis J. Barry died late Saturday night, 12-20-03. No funeral arrangements as yet. He is to be cremated as per his wishes. Doris will be staying with her son until after the holidays, but you can send cards to 14371 North Sky Trail, Tucson, AZ 85737 -Glenn Petersen Denis J. Barry leaves a mixed...

On 21 Dec 2003 13:03:34 GMT, (Miriling) wrote: In the view of Grandmaster Nigel Short, Sam Sloan is a chess journalist. Responding on December 16 in the ChessCafe.com Bulletin Board to a discussion of the late GM Tony Miles, Short comments about Miles' actions at the 1986 Chess Olympiad in Dubai, where Miles, a member of the team selection committee put himself on top board...

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I've just started playing on FICS as a registered user and on ICC as a guest. What does ICC have that FICS doesn't and is it really worth $50?

Hello , a) sometimes I like (or better : try ..) to construct some help-mate-problems -- unfortunately it is (being "human") sometimes awfully difficult to prove that only one solution exists ... b) are there any help-mate-programs which could do such "proof-reading" ?! and where can one get them ?!

The future of chess: a game for toddlers. You can find an article in today's on-line 12/19/2003 NY Times under Travel Escapes section At the National Scholastic K-12/Collegiate Chess Championships, players who can barely tie their shoelaces are castling and double pawning.

I ordered my copy of Kasparov's My Great Predecessors Part 2 more than 2 weeks ago after I read the order was "then being accepted" for order placement. I've been getting updates from Barnes & Noble that the order was "confirmed" but hasn't been shipped yet?! I don't know what's going on with this but it should have been in the stores by now. Anybody know what's going on with the delays?

AMERICA'S FOUNDATION FOR CHESS FINDS CO-SPONSOR FOR 2004 US CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS San Diego's NTC Foundation's Promenade Centre Is New Home for the 2004 U.S. Chess Championship SEATTLE, Wash. — (December 22, 2003) — America's Foundation for Chess (AF4C) announces the NTC Foundation as its new partner for the annual U.S. Chess Championships scheduled for the first two weeks in December 2004. The...

In actual games, which occurs more the Lucena position or Philidor's position? More generally, in actual practice, is R+P vs. R more often win or a draw? Thanks in advance. ------------------------------------- Replace you know what by "j" to email.

I managed to do it, running both programs on my Dell Inspiron 1100 with 2 GHz, 256 MB RAM. Neither program was running as the main task. I left each program think one whole minute (with infinite analysis) before forcing it to move. Here is the game, it was a boring draw but it seems to the uninitiated me that CM played a slightly better game. Fritz was less drawish than CM towards the end. Fritz...

In his previous postings at Google.com Goran Tomic more than once called Lev Khariton the world's best chess journalist,the famous chess journalist etc. I agree with Goran, but I think that Lev is more than a journalist, or rather more than a chess journalist. He is an exceptional man who has preserved in our difficult time the human qualities that are not to be so easily found in this world. I...

For those with spare CPU cycles: I've created two 'winboard' teams for BOINC and ChessBrain. - BOINC is in beta-test, working with the SETI@home and AstroPulse projects. - ChessBrain has been in development for some time now and will be attempting to set an official Guiness World Record on January 30, 2004. BOINC and ChessBrain work well when run together on a single machine. ChessBrain uses...

found this version... You know that 'Patzer' is a derogatory term that denotes a hopelessly weak player. But do you know how the word patzer came about? The word Patzer is a favourite in most International events. The story goes that the German Grandmaster Jacques Mieses was giving a simultaneous exhibition in England at the turn of the century. One of his opponents had a lone king left on...

I want to do some computer analysis of some Bobby Fischer games. I'm looking for a few games that are considered his best, from 1st move to last move, not games with just one or two brilliant moves. Any suggestions for any games that qualify will be greatly appreciated. Dave

I had ready that Regina Fischer used to sell chess wallets like the one Bobby Fischer used to care around. I found a website that sold chess wallets and they seem very expensive. Even the travel sets are very expensive. If that is how they are today, I wonder how many chess players could actually afford one back in the 1950s and 1960s. Scroll down and look at all the other prices on this...

On the second disk of Chessmaster 9000, there are files such as KRPKR_B.J00 and KRPKR_B.JIX. I assume that the first file is a database of K+R+P vs. K+R positions and the second file is an index for it. It is in some binary format. Does anyone know the format of these files so I could write a program to extract the data? ------------------------------------- Replace you know what by "j" to...

If you have no experience in researching matters, or in writing proposals (in brief not in a long winded or imcomplete manner) get some practice in, or do your homework very carefully or your propsals will merely be completely disgarded as too much time consuming (they will not be graded and corrected for you, merely rejected. Before responding to this poster correct the email address attached...

What is good software for a child to learn about chess? She is age 6 and knows the basic rules and can mate with K+R vs. R. She beats most people in her age group. The only one I've found specifically for this age group is Chess Mates at http://www.chessmate.com/software.html#ChessMatesCD . Is it good? Is there something better? Thank you.

Has anyone seen a daily chess calendar (along the lines of the Page-a-Day brand) for 2004? I've heard of them, but I can't seem to find any. Heck, I'd be happy to find *any* kind of chess calendar (wall, desk, etc.). Thank you, -Matt

Happy Holidays, Strange things have been happening when I tried to edit my Word files (from NT and Win 98 pcs) with ChessBase / ChessBase light output on PC that runs Windows XP. 1. When I open on XP file that was previously saved on non-XP PC, I see no diagrams, just an empty space. I tried to change the font from DiagramTTFritz to something else, then change it back - no luck!