.. p.s. It loses teeth, by biting metal things, but these quickly grow back.. Not to worry: Bobby had all those "metal things" removed years ago, to keep the Russians from controlling his brainwaves! So you see, the shark would not have been hurt at all, and Boris -- being the kind of guy he is -- would undoubtedly have rescued Bobby. Realisticly,

I have a tactical question. I bought a fantastic book some months ago: "sharpen your tactics" . I do problems all days with this book combined with ct-art 3.0 software and I see results, maybe not in practical results but my thinking process, that I am seening is more accurate. I am sure I will see practical results soon as a logic process (at less is samething I "feel"). Anyway there is one...

Mr. Dimitrije Bjelica (with GM Karpov) organizes two competitions in Banja Luka. He sent me these information: 1. The ninth children's Olympiad, two boards under 16 Banja Luka, Republic Srpska 26th of September opening, 1st of October departure, 1,5 hours, 7 rounds swys system. The organiser covers hotel expenses for two players and for the third person for the 15 teams who sends the...

Is tim-mann.org the "official" record of the PGN standard? Cesar A. K. Grossmann wrote: "Elaine Jackson" wrote in message ... Greetings! I need some information for a utility I'm writing. Suppose a knight on d5 can be captured by a pawn on c4 or by another pawn on e4. Then the moves in question are...

'day, Recently Sloan eulogised Eudora (3), it is of no interest to idiot virus makers etc. I wish he'd keep his motor mouth to himself. It is true that bundled stuff like ie6 & 'outlock' mx etc. are targeted by idiot moron skateboard bores intent on proving 'something'. B. Gates is taking a personal interest in your 'puter, as I type - you need to believe this. Fact is 'Eudora aka Netscape' got...

MOST "CHESSPLAYERS" ARE NOT PLAYERS By Larry Parr I'm glad that Tim Hanke is "rethinking" his plans. Cutting out the printed copy of Chess Life, the most visible benefit of Federation membership for most members, would be the end of the USCF. The statistics are absolutely clear on this point.

'day group, Chas. Bronson has died at 81. My question is, in his life instead of being a highly paid hollywood 'ham' might he perhaps have excelled in the realm of ballet, or even chess? ..

Hi, I am an experienced beginner (about 1250 - 1300). I am working through a couple of books (Reassess, and one on openings). Right now, I think that Reassess is a bit over my head. Given the level that I play at, as well as my own misery upon losing material during the middle game, I am looking for a book or a web site that has middle game puzzles where the objective is to win material. I...

"Tim Hanke" writes: Most of Sam Sloan's description of my ideas is either outright falsehood, or extremely misleading. I guess Sam acts this way to get attention. I plan to present an income and expense budget for my plan to the Board. I will also post this income and expense budget on the Web, so reasonable people can comment on it. As I said, I think...

wondering- do all the world champions have nicknames? does Kramnik? Kasparov "monster with 1000 eyes" or "beast from Baku", those are good ones. Karpov? Fischer? Spassky? Petrosian "Tiger" but anything else? Tal "magician from Riga" another good one. Smyslov? Botvinnik? Euwe? Alekhine? Capablanca "The Machine" or something like that? Lasker? Steinitz? Surely they all must have had...

How much time in prison should the maker of the Blaster virus get?? The FBI has just announced the arrest of an 18-year-old poor innocent child who created the Blaster Worm. He also created a similar virus called the LovSan virus last week. (At first I thought he named it after me). This is a murky area of the law. Creating a computer virus is not clearly a crime. What law makes it illegal??...

After having achieved a respectable patzer rating of 1800 in 1973, I left organized chess. Why? Slow time limits, for one. Waiting ten/fifteen minutes for some idiot to make an obvious recapture is exasperating! Forty move an hour "tornado tournaments" were ok, but too rare. And then there were the nerds, dweebs, and dorks who frequented tournaments... ;-) and no women in sight..bleah...A...

Does anyone know where i can get some good annoted games online to have a look at ? Failing that, whats the best book a peasant like me could buy that has a load of annoted games in ? Failing that .......... log onto letsplaychess.com and invite me for a game and then annote it for me afterwards ..... ( jonnywildboar ) inventor of the wildboar variation.

Based on Shirov's form in the past few years, this might be as competitive a match as Kasparov-Short was, but (just as in that match), the games would have high entertainment value. I think it's likely that Shirov would rise to the occasion, get over his Kasparov complex, and play a competitive match. Note the rough justice of the above proposal. Bonus: no short draws! More to the point: I'd...

(Sam Sloan) wrote in message ... I just received a report that Frank Niro is back in the USCF office in New Windsor and apparently wants his job back. What does anybody think about this? As long as we are beating dead horses, we were led to believe that Niro was working for nothing when he was interim ED. Was he in fact not...

Are the rumors true that the USCF is about to file bankruptcy? If true, I am curious what this means to the members and tournaments

There was a recent posting on the chesstalk.com bulletin board on this subject. I would be interested to know if anyone was aware of self-published games collections from non-masters. Who has done it? How did they prepare their games, i.e. format, etc.? How did they go about printing their work? Also, has anyone seen any of these that are particularly well done?

Where can I d/l a working copy of 9000 pse.

Unfortunately, by the time these events are held the players and their qualifications may have lost some relevance. Kramnik has hardly played, and turned in a rather lackluster performance this past month. Kasparov has lost to Karpov and drawn a computer after wimping out. Pono won a crap shoot known as the FIDE championship. Leko may very well be the strongest among them. Any of these clowns...

Orwell or Botvinnik? 200 Words by Lev Khariton It is no secret that today we are living with a host (I would say a myriad) of myths that we ourselves have built up over the years. For example, George Orwell, doubtless an outstanding writer and in no less degree a visionary, in his iconoclastic utopia “84” predicted the break-up of the Soviet Empire. He is being remembered now, the year of his...