Just wondering how old the kid is who is running this site. Looks like it was done by a 5th grader, but you never know these days kids tend to be smarter than we think. http://www.academicchess.com

If anybody gives a damn, here's the article from which that picture was taken... http://www.msnbc.com/news/938172.asp Enjoy. -- || http://www.digital204.com (a Yobry production) || drop me a line at danyobry(at)comcast.net

I played in another USCF tournament on sunday which was 4 rounds of game 60 against players of the same level. And I lost all my games again. I have been following a daily study plan studying tactics and endgames and GM games but I just can't seem to beat anybody. You gotta help me. White: 1600 Black: Me (1008) I that I was winning after i won a pawn on move 20:

On 10 Jul 2003 08:10:00 -0700, (Ivan) wrote: I was wondering how much money I should expect to pay for chess lessons. I met someone the other day who was rated 2100 and he told he charges 25/hour for lessons. Is that a good deal? Some background would help. What is your rating? Where do you live? What kind of track record

Has the same game ever been played twice? (unintentionally) I'm not talking about scholars mates here, but something like 20-30 moves past a 10 move main line opening of the French or something. Tom

Mhoulsby wrote: From: John Macnab Date: 12/07/03 16:07 GMT Daylight Time Message-id: I would like to keep my name reasonably distant from the current degeneration of these arguments, please.

Isn't this picture cool? :-) -Scott No

After 1.e4 e6 2. d4 d5 what do you think about this position; is it a good opening/middlegame ?

Hi there, I found the Demoversion of Chess Mentor ( http://www.chess.com ) and I would like to know if some of you purchased Chess Mentor and use it for your chesstraining. Could you share your experience and tell me if you saw an improvement of your game ? Besdies I would like to know how you would value it compared with the produkts of Chessbase or Chess Assistent ? I plan to buy the databases...

One of the great debates of Our Modern Times has been the chess strength of Mig, whose real name is Michael Greengard. Everyone agrees that Mig is a talented writer about chess. His articles are popular and have been read and published everywhere, including ChessBase magazine and TWIC. Mig also was Director of KasparovChess during its heyday. However, Mig often puts on airs about being a chess...

"David Goh" wrote in message ... "David J Bush" wrote in message ... The "Shogi club 24" server is free outside Japan: http://www.shogidojo.com/eng/engindex.htm Shogi is also on the Yahoo server. Sorry, I don't have a URL for that. ...

Hi, Is there a way I can check how much battery life is left in my chronos chess clock? It was not working yesterday but now today it seems to be fine.

Who won this years US Amateur East individual Championships?

On 10 Jul 2003 08:04:31 -0700, (Mike) wrote: Is there a way to found out about a chess player, Najib Joubran, won state or regional chess championship? New York, around 1970s-1980s. Thank you. Mike Yared If this information is not on the Net, the best way of finding it is to ask an old fogey like me with a complete set of Chess Life and

Issue #94 of Correspondence Chess News (CCN) has been released. In this issue: News By Grayling V. Hill Figure Lost in a Landscape By Neil Brennen (Neil reviews The Chess Biography of Marcel Duchamp By Vlastimil Fiala)

Chessbase news wrote about popularity contest for the 4th Individual Chess Championship. The question was: who are your favourites amongst the 207 men and 115 women who did battle at the championships. The results of the contest was somewhat expected. 1. Lahno Kateryna 2.Ivanchuk Vassily 3. Pokorna Regina But the comments of the readers who voted were still more interesting. The result showed the...

On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 09:58:44 GMT, "Gunny Bunny" wrote: First Chess Program to ever to do on SSDF ! http://w1.859.telia.com/~u85924109/ssdf/ http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1048

(Alex) wrote in message ... What does Garry Kasparov eat for lunch Tunafish sandwiches everyday, except for Tuesdays, when he eats a hot dog with sauerkraut. and what does he do for fun ? Watches "Spongebob Squarepants"

On 18 Jun 2003 19:31:40 -0700, (Nick) wrote: On the other hand, from what I have heard, sometimes one person here at RGCM, evidently playing outside the United States, has brought up a question about one's local tournament regulations, and then someone else here has responded by citing the USCF rulebook. :-) Well if they're asking about LOCAL tournament regulations...

There was a front-page article in The Wall Street Journal, July 10, 2002 "For Aging Knights Of College Chess, Endgame Is Near." David Ames