After a long time a lot of impromvements were done. Now GetClub Chess will play better moves. Play Chess at: http://www.getclub.com/Chess.html Beginner: 10-20 Easy: 40-60 seconds / move Normal: 2-4 min/move Master: 5-10 min/move

After a long time a lot of impromvements were done. Now GetClub Chess will play better moves. Play Chess at: http://www.getclub.com/Chess.html Beginner: 10-20 Easy: 40-60 seconds / move Normal: 2-4 min/move Master: 5-10 min/move

Watch the USCF Executive Board meeting right now at http://drpain.camstreams.com/ Sam Sloan

'Vladolf' 'RatPutin' - The Free Press catches on (Vadimir Putin) 3 November 2007 {HRI Note 20071103} ' Obviously the Free Press is catching on, and I like to mention, as regards my 'Too Far Above The Journalists' series, *(1)

Mike Nolan has posted extremely interesting data about USCF Members by sex and age. Thank you Mike Nolan. USCF members by sex shows what many chess teachers have observed, which is that among elementary school children, the girls are nearly as interested in chess as the boys, but as the girls grow older they lose interest quickly and almost all of them stop playing. USCF members by age shows...

Polgar Life magazine I am deeply disappointed in the current issue of Polgar Life magazine. Other than the picture of Susan Polgar kicking a football on the cover, there are only five pictures of Polgar inside the magazine and only 13 pages of the magazine are devoted to Polgar (not counting the letter to the editor, which is also about Polgar). Polgar is our only chess player we have and I...

CUI BONO? J. D. Walker speculates on the nature of our Fake Sam Sloan. A more useful question is the ancient query, "Cui bono?" The answer here is clear: the political Old Buard in the USCF is the beneficiary. The effect of the scurrilous postings, along with the endless sexual junk from Finance Committee guyo Bill Brock, was to drive people

Harry Payne of Oklahoma, who has close connections with Texas Tech University, had this to say today on the USCF Forums: I know there is a college in Texas getting tried of hearing all this bad publicity. Some major contributers are also concerned. I think the USCF should do its own promoting. The P/T combine doesn't seem to be doing too good. Harry Payne

No. It is not. Members have to be allowed to ask questions, even embarrassing questions, on this forum. It is an accepted fact by everybody, with no disagreement, that two million dollars of USCF membership money has gone missing since 1999. I know nothing about the Meeting Link money or the financial situation of the 2007 US Open, but I do know that these sort of problems have come up every...

If another board member sends a BINFO marked "Confidential" and I reply to it quoting some of his words, I am obliged to mark it confidential too. On the other hand, I feel that the only "Confidential" BINFOS should be those dealing with litigation and personnel matters. Therefore, when it was reported that Susan Polgar wanted to move the Polgar Girls Tournament to Texas Tech University and...

Bill Brock wrote on the New York Times website at at http://gambit.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/polgar-responds-on-her-blog/ : - Irony aside, given that Mr. Truong & Ms. Polgar ran a reformist campaign ("clean up the USCF"), isn't the timing a bit suspicious? You'd think this was a Teamsters or UMW election-I'm originally from the anthracite region, so Jock Yablonski...

Nobody is allowed to use the l-word on the USCF Issues Forum so I will clue everybody in here. I have had extensive dealings with Bill Hall and I must tell you that Bill Hall Lies All the Time. Another frequent liar (although not nearly as frequent as Bill Hall) is Bill Goichberg. Sam Sloan

This is a common trap in the Guioco Pianissimo opening - I have used it successfully; of course the first version I used was much longer, but this is the essential. I give it if black falls victim; white can also, of course, given that the symmetry of the board. The first 5 moves are the symmetrical Giuoco Pianissimo. Then 6 B-KN5 O-O? 7 N-Q5 B-K3? - black should have done P-KR3, driving back...

Capablanca vs Janokowsky St Petersburg 1914 Very nice game. Capa has a very clean game. Doubled pawn on e file? Interesting. SO doubled pawns is not always a bad thing? http://www.youtube.com/swf/cps.swf?video_id=qKNZ6Hqw0dg&eurl=&iurl=http%3A//img.youtube.com/vi/qKNZ6Hqw0dg/default.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskJLpwdQIwadPe7lwvBMBaSs&&rel=1&border=0

HOT NEWS: Gregory Alexander has been logging in as Bill Goichberg for at least one month This has come out in the debates now taking place on the USCF Issues Forum. Gregory Alexander has been behaving strangely all along, for example screaming shrilly when Brian Mottershead went into his newly created account after Gregory had complained about some problems with that account of which Brian...

In this game Jester win. But many times GetClub went ahead of Jester. But later the Queen & Bishop got Pinned and were killed So GetClub lost the game. The Game Played at: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html White: Jester Black: Easy Level (GetClub.com) Recorded Game: http://www.getclub.com/playgame.php?id=DM11740&game=Chess

Big and very beautiful picture : http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/illuman/images/full_resolution/12_07.jpg JMR http://www.jmrw.com/Chess/Tableau_echecs/index.htm

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In this game Jester win. But many times GetClub went ahead of Jester. But later the Queen & Bishop got Pinned and were killed So GetClub lost the game. The Game Played at: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html White: Jester Black: Easy Level (GetClub.com) Recorded Game: http://www.getclub.com/playgame.php?id=DM11740&game=Chess

In an article in Science, 14 September 2007 p. 1519, written by the Chinook team that weakly solved the game of checkers (draughts), it's asserted essentially that chess is harder than Go. What is meant is that the "decision complexity" of chess (and checkers) is higher than for Go (actually Go-Moku was mentioned, which is not exactly the same as Go, but I take it the analogy holds for Go),...