Angelo, I emailed you about the Norman Rockwell plates and up to now you haven't responded. What are you, announcing things here in RGCP but not man enough to honor your words? I wonder if you knew that John Fernandez' ebay auction was real.

At 08:38 PM 9/18/2003 -0000, levzil wrote: Let me respond to Sam Sloan. First things first. (1) I WAS NOT BANNED FOR PLAYING THE ZILBERMINTS GAMBIT. It was because of some perceived BS on the part of a few individuals. I was banned from the Friday Rapids, without so much as a hearing to defend myself. By the way, Friday Rapids is dwindling. Leif Pressman said they

Here are some puzzles taken from the chess games of strong players of the early 20th century. Except where noted, it's "White to Move and Win". a) http://wtharvey.com/sep15a.png White Mates in 3, Alexander Alekhine vs Freeman, NY, 1924 b) http://wtharvey.com/sep15b.png Heinrich Wolf vs Rudolf Spielmann, Maehrisch-Ostrau, 1923

Kasparov vs. Capablanca by Goran Tomic "Why did Kasparov talk about Capablanca with some underestimation?" When you read about the best chess players in history, you could be perplexed by Kasparov's evaluation of Capablanca. He said in the interview conducted by Hannon Russell:

d4 can lead you to the blackmar-diemer and this is certainly fun and probably more tactical than e4 will ever be ! And yes , maybe at grandmaster level this opening is not a good idea but since I never play grandmasters I don't care !!! On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 01:39:03 +1200, "Blue Knight" wrote:

Searching for Bobby Fischer I just replayed the movie "Searching for Booby Fischer" on video. Of course, I had seen the movie before, but this time I saw a few things I had not seen previously. I think that we as chess players can learn a lot from this movie. It is a masterpiece in the way that it takes a subject most people would find to be deadly boring and turns it into an exciting drama....

Hello, Does anybody know of any websites that either host or setup Correspondence Fischer Random games? thanks, Seth

Last week I sent my open letter to the editors of www.worldchessrating.ru as regards the abnormal situation: the bloated personality cult of Garry Kasparov. The readers will understand everything from this letter that I translated for them from Russian into English. What they will not understand is that so far I have not received any reply from the editors, Kasparov’s friends and colleagues. No...

On 13 Aug 2003 16:02:31 -0700, (Ivan) wrote: Hi, Hi. I have seen a couple annotated games where black plays the Semi-Slav Defense. And then there are comments where White could have played Nbd2 or b3

I went to my local Barnes and Nobles bookstore and found that the new kasparov book (My Great Predecessors VOL. 1) cost $35.00 on the cover. So I decided to search the Internet to find better prices. I then went to chesscafe.com and found it selling for 33.95 . I visited Amazon and found the book selling at $24.50 . Finally I went chessusa.com and found the same book selling for 29.75 . Now all...

The problem with Games Parlor is it has zero impact on USCF membership and does nothing for USCF's profile because every player there is already a member. True? The numbers (that I've seen) are too low, so there's no way to make up for the fact that people only go there to play games (or maybe only chess), and that they are USCF members already. I'm not sure about the financial side, but I'd...

Dear Relatives, Friends and Associates in the World of Chess: Heil Dubya! When I was in the sixth grade, I had a teacher, Mrs. Wilson, who used to tell us how wonderful it was to live in the United States. Her favorite reason was that, while people had to carry identification at all times in other countries, we could walk the streets with no identification at all and, as long as we...

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"Flobby Bischer" wrote in message ... I got one two days ago as a gift from a friend not having seen one in a few months. Guys and Girls, it really needs some work still. There are good columns yes, but the entire look and feel.... well.... Here are some recommendations of what to edit out: 1.) membership...

Benjamin Franklin and P. Morphy were hardly poor Russian immigrants. Chess has a longer history in America than the Eastern and Southern European immigration of the late 19th and 20th centuries. Chess was not an unknown game in Ireland and Germany let alone England and Scotland.

I am sure that the information and program described on this website was a reality at one point. Unfortunately it was not the case at my daughters school. The instruction was not up to par, instructors were extremely rude to children and parents, and I am positive at least one of the instructors was on dope! These people are NOT role models for my child or any children. They spent the first five...

Mike Murray wrote in message ...(to Jerome Bibuld): ... I am thinking of Karl Marx, who knocked up his unpaid servant woman (while living in a two-room shack with his wife and several children), and then refused to support the offspring. And wouldn't all our idols look better without those clay feet?... That...

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Every time we see a new up-and-coming player we get excited and hope they will be "the one" - the next fischer/kasparov/etc. The chess world has had many disappointments such as with josh waitzkin among others. When we are lucky - a combination of nature/nurture creates a truly exceptional player – but often the realities of the current social and economic atmosphere forces these top players to...

Would anyone who owns or has used one of these care to comment on how good or bad it is? Thanks.