Looking for the results between these players during the 1950's only.It is my contention that Smyslov was the strongest player of the decade despite Botvinnik being the World Champ throughout most of the decade.I believe Smyslov outscored Botvinnik(+1) in the 3 World Championship matches.What were the other results between the 2 during this decade?

Hi All, I have a question about the Mephisto Exclusive with the Senator module. Does this machine have hash tables? Classic Chess and games says so in it's literature. Mr Eric Hallsworth /who's opinion I greatly respect/does not! So anyone out there that has the machine let me know would you? it suppose to be the Milano Pro program which does not have hash. If it does have hash,wouldn't that make...

What happened to me when I tried to spend some money with the USCF: About a month ago I ordered a chess clock and a chess set for the blind (one with raised squares and pieces that you can differentiate by touch ). About 2 weeks later I got a box that contained the blind chess board, 2 bags of pieces, and a pack of cards (something like a "Chess adventure card game"...). I looked at the packing...

Hi all, Among the various things I got from my wife and family (including a digereedoo!?) was an "Excalibur Chess Station" chess computer. I thought I would drop a few lines with what I think of it so far. It's worth pointing out that I am pretty much a beginner when it comes to playing chess. What do you get?

I have made several crude, but playable chess sets over the years, and would like to know if anybody else has?

I had almost forgotten what a great player Spassky was in his heyday. I tend to associate him entirely with Fischer. But he won Tim Krabbé's Most Amazing Move competition! Also he came up with the following knight manoevre in the Sicilian - something which Lev Polugaevsky said he has seen neither before or since. It really is very clever! (1459171) Spassky,B - Polugaevsky,L URS-ch27 Leningrad...

Can someone explain to this relative beginner what chess software does when it analyzes games? I assume it looks at moves and suggests what its engine finds as better moves, but is that all? Is this a useful way of going over games one has played? Or does one have to be a fairly strong player to benefit from it? Thanks, Kirk

I have the Polgar book of chess puzzles (5334 positions), which I find very good, especially for me as a beginner. Does anyone know the two other books in this series: one is on middle games and the other on endgames. Are they puzzle books, or are they different? Thanks, Kirk

How does the touch move rule work with a promotion? You move your pawn to the eighth and pick up a Queen but then you realise that would be stalemate so you go for a Rook and you say you were just moving the Queen out of the way to get to the Rook behind it. Do you have to declare what piece you are going to have? Can you change your mind at any time up until you place the piece on the square?...

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 22:39:35 +0000 (UTC), "Marco" wrote: How many people are recorded to have died while playing a tournament match or a chess game in general? Ivan the Terrible is said to have died while playing chess, but I'm not sure if it is true. I found the following record in the chess column of an old German magazine. According to it the Dutch doctor and former...

In my NIC 2003 #8 issue On page 61 Alexander Shabalov mentions a game between Shirov and Ivanchuk in a 27 move stonewall dutch from the 30th Chess Olympiad in Manila. Anyone know where I can find that game? Thanks in advance, Leopold

The January 2004 FIDE ratings show Judit Polgar played 6 games, increased 6 points, and is now the 8th ranked player in the world. The top three are still Kasparov, Kramnic, and Anand. U.S. Champion Shabba is well down the list in the top 100. Wilma

Just finished this game and I thought I'd share it as a pretty good example of a player struggling mightily with tactics (among other things). I'm working my way slowly through 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate and the 1001 Combinations book by Reinfeld as well as Chernev's Logical Chess and Practical Chess Endings. Hopefully some of this will rub off eventually! Any comments welcome!!

I would be grateful to get a link of a picture of the composer Leonid Kubbel 1891-1942 (even a small one) thanks

Please suggest me url listing all available chess softwares. Thanx nsp

Here is a different idea to add some spice to chess. I call it Simultaneous Chess. The idea is probably not new, however I must admit I haven't heard of it being formulated before. "Each player must write his/her proposed move in secret. Once this is accomplished by each player, the moves are revealed and performed simultaneously." Obviously this will require some refinement of rules such as...

If you want to be good at chess then you are gonna have to learn how to play the Sicilian both as black and white. Don't go in for that crappy Closed Sicilian rubbish; you have to grab your testicles or vulvas in both hands and play proper Open Sicilians. It's a lot of work but it has to be done. The earlier you start to learn the lines the better you'll be as a chess player. Best wishes for the...

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The files for Nalimov's endgame tablebases are available at http://www.uib.no/people/pfvaf/chesslib/Nalimov.htm but I don't know how to extract the data. What is the format of the data (or where can I find it) so that I can write a program to extract the data? ------------------------------------- Replace you know what by "j" to email.

I played a game as white in which I made a real mess of things. The PGN file can be found at http://www.g8wrb.org/chess/paupau.pgn I've analysed the game using the free open-source chess engine 'crafty'. The results of the analysis can be found at: http://www.g8wrb.org/chess/paupau.pgn.html