Chess historians are pointed to http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/ where issues of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, from 1841 to 1902, are online and searchable. Does anyone know of other newspaper archives that are equally old and searchable? Rick

The New York Times on March 31 1859 is yet another story of Morphy's exploits, including his win over Mongredien. However, it also gives an interesting twist; that to choose from the 100 players who want to play Morphy, they would be divided into groups of 20 to select 5 challengers for Morphy. Does anyone know whether this competition to challenge Morphy actually took place, and if so...

From the June 19, 2003 New England Journal of Medicine: Use It or Lose It — Do Effortful Mental Activities Protect against Dementia? Joseph T. Coyle, M.D. CHESS NOTES Author(s): Harold Dondis and Patrick Wolff, Globe Correspondents Date: August 4, 2003

We certainly thank Sam Sloan for his post concerning Ken Whyld's passing on 11 July 2003, at age 77. In his post, Sam Sloan mentions that his 1984 article was "slammed" by Whyld. While I also did not have the pleasure of meeting Whyld in person, I did have several indirect dealings with him as well as a letter from him. When I was doing research on the Genealogy of Chess, back in 1997, Whyld,...

I'd like to have a go at working out the ratings of British GM Luke McShane who has afaics played a lot of games recently and seems to be performing very well. Anyway I Goooooogled for an online ratings calculator but then I came up against K factor. Can anyone here explain K factor to me and what values I should enter for a game between two GMs or a GM and an IM? cheers dd

Who wrote the article for smithsonian? Does Jenny have a publicist? The whole article smells like a big publicity campaign for her -- trying to get some corporate sponsorship? Just a couple questions from Flobby "Lets get the big money into chess" Bisher

I have been doing some little researches on chess in the period 1836-1863 and I have come up with references to a number of events for which I do not know results. Perhaps someone can help. Most recently, I have come up with some references in the NY Times to the St Louis Chess Congress of 1860; one writer says that this was greater than New York 1857 which was really a local tournament in which...

"Jon Haskel" wrote in message ... In a simul against Capablanca in 1933 Mary Bain won her game in 11 moves. Does anyone have the moves from this game? Jon Haskel A little Gooooogling turns this up in Portuguese...

Does anyone know where I can find the entire quote?

On Saturday, August 2nd, the Exposition Park Chess Clubhttp://chess.expoparkla.com/], hosted an free, open, unrated tournament of two quads in three one-hour rounds of play. The tournament was held at the Jefferson Branch Library http://www.lapl.org/branches/17.html] in Los Angeles, California. The names of the winners, together with their final scores, were as follows: 1st Quad There was a tie...

Great game! Leko had some winning chances in the endgame. ...g5- was last mistake. Better Rh4 and than Rd4. More and bets for all rounds and tournament winner on: http://Kramnikchess.narod.ru

I don't understand why GMs charge so much for lessons. It's not like the average person can afford $60 an hour. I guess they are still communist and think about making as money as possible at one time. If they were capitalist, they would lower their rate to $40/hr and make more money. For example, getting paid $40/hr for 10 hours is much better than working $60/hr for 5 hours. Plus they...

In article , says... I've just been invited to ChessWorld.net (www.letsplaychess.com). I'm playing one game as guest. Seems ok, is it worth being a member? Any members wish to comment. TIA, Kym I like it. Though I've only been a free member for about 8 months or so.

This is a true test of chess ability.

200 Words by Lev Khariton August 1st, 2003 I love chess history, but I think that right now we have to discuss something far more important things than the parentage (that is, who his father was) of Bobby Fischer. With September 18 looming on the horizon, the beginning of the Ponomariov – Kasparov match in Yalta, I would like to ask the chess world some questions. Chess history is being made...

Hello, I like playing chess, but even more I like collecting nice Staunton sets. I have been collecting sets for years and have found some really great ones from the House of Staunton and Chesstopia. If you've never checked them out and like Chess sets, check out: www.houseofstaunton.com www.chesstopia.com

"Andreas Hofmann" wrote in message ... www.bielchessfestival.ch/isf.php?service=news&language=en&choice=130 A very interesting interview . Thanks Andreas. Regards, Jerzy

3r2k1/1p3pp1/4p2p/2nrP3/p2N1P2/2PpR2P/5KP1/1N1R4 b - - 0 1 As black what should I be thinking here ? I'm clearly in a bit of trouble, but am I sunk ? What should my priorities and strategy be at this point ? Fritz (6) likes Rf8 at depth 14. Agree ? Thanks. Dan

I don't get it. Why have been decided to play with Fritz since it has been outranked by Shredder 7.04 (in SSDF list) and it seems it will be outranked by Junior 8 too? Even if the Morsch team intend to come up with Fritz 9 or something the Chess Base team would not know how the program will perform compared to others.

I would like to pass on the following shopping experience I had with ChessBase USA, with this group. I originally ordered Fritz 7 from ChessBase USA 27 June 2003. This was because they advertised (and to this day, still do) that this product was on sale for $25 US, as you can see: http://chessbaseusa.sectorlink.org/DesktopDefault.aspx After comparing the features with Fritz 8, I determined...