Because a Go game is scored in terms of points of territory, adding a few points to the threshhold for victory by the player with the first move was a successful way of overcoming a tendency to defensive play by the player with the first move in Go. As well, an odd half-point was used to eliminate draws as an outcome of play. Changing the points given for a win or a loss, since each player...

The REAL inventor of the Gothic Chess piece, the "Chancellor". http://www.rookhouse.com/blog/?p=164 Thanks, Morphy www.rookhouse.com

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I recently purchased several of the Chess Player publications by A.J. Gilliam for reference material on the great cable matches of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These legendary contests were held annually between the United States and Great Britain. Each country was represented by the 10 best players that they could produce at the time of the match. The best players were seated at...

Alexandra Kosteniuk is a Russian chess Grandmaster with a FIDE rating of 2523, presently ranked eighth in the women chess world (according to April 2008 FIDE rating list). Her most notable chess achievements include: winning the Women's European Chess Championship in 2004, winning the Russian Women's Championship with 9/11 score and a performance rating of 2691 in 2005, winning the first...

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These remarks are all being posted today on Susan's Blog at: http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2008/04/another-sad-day-for-uscf.html Some of the remarks are so typical of Paul Truong a/k/a "The Fake Sam Sloan" that he must have written them. For example: "I bet you we'll be able to get rid of Polgar and deport her back to Hungary soon. "Hah! That is a laugh Mr. Laughing Laugherty!

Hi, Checkout some mind boggling chess problems at the following link. (Week # 15) http://oraclearticles.googlepages.com/chess.htm Post your solution, with the shortest possible route for the same... Position: Black to move and checkmate.

Joel Channing Talked a Better Game than He Played In Joel Channing's final interview, as reported in the New York Times, he said that since chess is a "zero-sum game" (in that there is always one winner and one looser) his efforts to make the USCF run like a business failed. http://gambit.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/united-states-chess-federation-executive-board-member-resigns/ That is not...

LEVEL FOUR SANCTION By a vote of 3 in favor and none opposed, the Moderation Committee is imposing a level four sanction on Sam Sloan 11115292 as a result of his posts: MQ:Where are Bauer, Berry, and Channing on the Finances? by samsloan on Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:53 am #89659 Do not make personal attacks or defamatory or disparaging comments about any person, group or company.

THIS CRAZY WORLD OF CHESS "Nowadays lawyers seem to be replacing good moves over the board." -- GM Larry Evans (page 71)

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On Apr 11, 5:39 pm, "J.D. Walker" wrote: http://gambit.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/united-states-chess-federation-executive-board-member-resigns/ -- Cordially, Rev. J.D. Walker, MsD, U.C. Good. Wonderful. Now that The New York Times has written it, it must be true!!!

On FICS (www.FreeChess.org) I run "AIChess" and "DeepThoughtII" computer chess accounts... Both are very strong with minimum computer resources, outplaying anybody on LOW cpu priority setting running in background of Apache web server housed in an old "$20.00" 500MHz PIII computer... -tibor

Help bot is now at Top at GetClub Chess. He Won: 346 and Lost: 25 and has got Highest Rating of 1528. Chess Played at: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html Any there one who can beat "Help Bot"s Record??? He played all games without taking help from any Computer and beat records of all players and reached the Top Ranking.

....the mag seems the same, though not quite as thick. The production value is better - a much slicker publication - but it seems like some of the old columns are gone. The feature articles are longer, though. Alex Dunne's correspondence chess column seems absent...is correspondence chess dead? Rendered impossible due to computers? I see they still print all the tournament life entries,...

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On Apr 1, 8:32 am, (Sam Sloan) wrote: It has been announced on the Internet this morning that SusanPolgar is resigning all her positions in chess and moving back toHungary. http://www.chessville.com/misc/PolgarQuits.htm That would end the need for a recall. The problem is that today is April Fools Day. We will have to wait until tomorrow to find out whether...

One of the older rules still used in some informal Chess play is that a Pawn can only be promoted to one of your own pieces that has already been captured. The intent of this rule is, of course, to permit Chess to be played neatly with one ordinary Chess set. One of the ways chess players have coped with the practical issue is to use an upside-down Rook to stand for a Queen.