Anyone know any good web resources / sites on the Torre Attack ? Thanks, Andy

In the October 2003 issue of Chess Life (pages 26-29), John S. Hilbert and IM John Donaldson write about Philip Reinhold Geffe, better known as Philip Woliston, who competed in the 1940 U.S. Championship in New York. The authors write that "Woliston did not fare well against the bevy of international stars that appeared in New York . . ." They do not report how he finished in the tournament, but...

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 02:03:31 GMT, "Tim Hanke" wrote: Louis's error is one example of the larger fallacy, often stated in the past but less often stated these days, "USCF should stay in the books & equipment business because they could make a lot of money." You are an idiot and keep ignoring the point. It is not that the USCF could make money in the books and...

Heil Dubya! Poor "Briarroot" is appallingly ignorant. Will someone please point out to her/him/it documentation concerning Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki (all within a few months in 1945)? I think (s)he/it will believe what is printed in the United Statesian propaganda organs (such as The New York Times). As for the U. S. invasion of Korea, begun on 25 June 1950, (almost immediately after...

I just signed up for this at www.shopuschess.org. I think it was a very good move for the USCF to bring this back, as it saves me time and money, and hopefully generates revenues for the USCF, as well as saving it the effort of reminding me to renew, etc.... KidDon ____________________________________________ SPECIAL PROMOTIONAL MEMBERSHIP OFFER "AUTO-RENEW"

Hi. I am in the middle of a discussion with one of the IECC (International E-mail Chess Club) directors and he is telling me that their rating system favors one color over the other one. For example: White's rating: 1586 Black's rating: 2131

Hi Bob, I can recommend a new book that I wrote on the subject: http://www.badbishop.com/gambit/books/computers.html Review: http://www.iecg.info/reviews/mjblake/publishers/gambit/computers1.htm Best wishes, Christian

Since Ponomariov is acting like a 13 year old brat and is too scared to play Kasparov, I think FIDE should replace him with either Vishy Anand or Bobby Fischer. Either of these players would make an interesting match against Kasparov.

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 02:11:57 GMT, "Tim Hanke" wrote: Louis, Tell you what, I hate to see a good man like you frothing at the mouth like this, so I'll offer you the same deal we gave Kopec and Terrie: you can buy a thousand copies of their book from us, at our printing cost (you pay shipping).

Briarroot wrote in message ... So Nick, when are you going to tell us where you're from? In the thread, "A new enemy of Lev Khariton" (9 July 2003), Briarroot wrote to me: "Now this I readily admit to. You deserve to be insulted, roundly and repeatedly. I consider it my duty to expose you..." Anyone who's not deranged should be able to...

I've had my chronos clock for a few years and the LCD's are dropping parts of the numbers. I tried new batteries but to no avail. Is the clock now useless?

Just for the sake of asking, if you have a dark squared bishop on the board, and you promote a pawn at a dark square, is it legal to obtain a bishop? Thanks, Tom

Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 07:02:40 EDT From: Subject: Scholastic Proposal Dear EB members, CCO and Director of Marketing: I would like to bring to you attention the following proposal that has been discussed with the USCF Scholastic Council: Rating fees increase:

http://home.att.ne.jp/moon/fischer/list/p_37/37_0.htm The thief of the empty boxes, Mr. Janos Rigo, is according to Bobby Fischer, also a con-artist: ... At this stage Mr. Rigo's car magically reappeared (with my luggage and the clock and shuffler intact) .. Why did it take him to weeks to find out or figure out that his car was not stolen but only towed away by the city? I don't buy it.

Greetings! My son's high school chess club is embarking on a fundraising effort. They'd like to raise funds to support travel to and entry fees for tournaments, as well as to buy some equipment. One arm of the effort is going to be direct appeals to local businesses. I have two related questions. Answers based on experience are preferred, but logical deductions and rank speculation are...

This match was originally scheduled for this month. Is it going to happen ? Regards Terry

Hello, I've been a few months ago in the Village Chess Shop in NY. It's a small chess shop (40 square meters) with an excellent selection of chess sets. In the shop are 10 to 15 chess boards for immediate playing with everyone: you have just to look, if somebody is sitting alone at a board and then you can simply join him/her. It's very similar to the Internet Chess Servers as FICS, ICC, Yahoo,...

I must have really bad luck because I can't win a single game of tournament chess: White: me (1213) Black: 1900 1. b4 b6 2. e3 Bb7 3. Bb2 e6 4. b5 Nf6 5. f4 d5 6. Nf3 Nbd7 7. d4 c5 8. Nbd2 Bd6 9. Ne5 O-O 10. c4 Be7 11. Be2 dxc4 12. Bf3 Bxf3 13. Qxf3 c3 14. Bxc3 Nd5

British television channel 4 are making a chess based edition of the popular show 'faking it' this is where for instance, a straight laced city lawyer tried to 'fake' being a hardcore rapper with 2 weeks intensive coaching, he was then placed in a emimem style 'rap-off' in which he did very well !! so, the chess 'faking it' team has plucked a novice player (say 1400) and started intensivley...

Once again Talking LCD chess is being sold for the ridiculously low price of $9.95. The last time this happened (to the best of my knowledge) was around Memorial Day weekend (last May). This is the best buy I have ever seen in a chess computer. For a full review of Excalibur's Talking LCD Chess computer, click on my link below: http://home.earthlink.net/~kantack/lcdchess/talkinglcd.htm