Knights have been evaulated as 3 points. A rating difference of 100 points means a player should win 5:8 games. In relative value, how much is a knight worth in rating points? And the other pieces? If a player is 100 points higher should he be able to win with a (pawn, 2 pawns, knight, etc.) advantage?

Mig Greengard has complained that there are at least ten different fake people posting to his blog at http://www.chessninja.com/dailydirt/2007/10/slime_spillover.htm . Mig is sure that all but one of them are fake because they all say much the same thing, praising Susan Polgar, and they all have the same IP address. Here is one fake posting that Mig seems to have missed: Charles,

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HAIR-SPLITTING Geez, Larry, is your receding hairline the result of hair splitting? -- Randy Bauer Randy Bauer accuses this writer of casuistical overexuberance because I argue that there is a vital, obvious and large distinction between saying that one believes a person to be guilty and stating directly that the person is guilty.

The showing of Hikaru No Go in Japan resulted in large increase in grade school children playing Go over there. I posted this to these here to discuss the possibility of chess, or other games being able to do similar. To people who think that chess and other games are just too dull to generate interest, I don't think this is true, if Go was able to do it. Here is info on the...

Postings disrespectful of Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk With regard to my recent lawsuit against Truong and Polgar, I have received an inquiry as to whether persistent attacks on Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk could possibly have arisen from Polgar or Truong. Frankly, I had been unaware that anybody had been attacking Grandmaster Kosteniuk and for that reason I had never thought about the...

You should have a one time registration good for the life of the show. One name per snail mail address. Give the contestants 10 min to call in and give them prizes for watching. Play blitz games and give chess tips. Put an email address up for suggestions and listen to the suggestions. Also, start a Usenet group for the show. Let the newbies use Google to get here.

Legal threats from Polgar and Truong On Friday, July 21, 2006, it was announced that Sam Sloan had been elected to the USCF Executive Board. Almost immediately, Paul Truong started attacking me in postings to the USCF Forums website. Today is Jaly 27 and in the six days that have since passed, Truong has attacked me a total of 115 times, including 25 times so far today. Truong has repeatedly...

What is "the pivot"? The world wants to know.

Precognition: Which 'Stauffenberg' will assassinate 'Vladolf' Putin? 13 October 2007 (Version 1.0.1-s) ' "He who lives by Polonium, shall die by Polonium."

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That ignores a few facts the most important of which is that although I was not elected several times, I was several times the next one down in number of votes so that in a race where the top two were elected I finished third. Also, Bill Goichberg campaigned against me in every election. Had Goichberg merely stayed neutral and been neither for nor against me, I would have been elected several of...

USCF NOT CULPABLE FOR TRUONG? Even if it is true that Paul Truong forged posts (and I am NOT asserting that he did), where is the evidence that this involved THE ORGANIZATION (i.e., the USCF)? -- Randy Bauer In the world of censor Randy Bauer, those who would expose a Federation politician successfully can be punished; and those politicians, if acting in a

Quick! What's the minimum number of moves a knight on g6 needs to get to e4 ? To answer this question, most chess players will simply start to mentally move their knight around, counting the moves, until it lands on the desired square. Let's say you counted 4 moves: e5-g4-f6-e4 That's one way to get there, and so is: f8-e6-g5-e4. But is there a shorter route? To answer that question with some...

Homeless man is chess king of Washington by Virginie Montet Thu Oct 11, 1:02 AM ET WASHINGTON (AFP) - He sleeps on a bench, but he is king of chess during the day at Washington's Dupont Circle, where he dazzles beginners and masters alike with his winning moves on the park's stone chessboards. Tom Murphy, 49, makes what little money he has from teaching his

OFF LIMITS In light of recent events, I feel it is in the best interest of the USCF to call a moratorium to discussions regarding someone posting as other real individuals on other discussion forums. This issue has potential legal liability ramifications from several directions, and I believe it to be my fiduciary responsibility at this time to place this topic on pause until more of the facts...

Postings disrespectful of Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk With regard to my recent lawsuit against Truong and Polgar, I have received an inquiry as to whether persistent attacks on Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk could possibly have arisen from Polgar or Truong. Frankly, I had been unaware that anybody had been attacking Grandmaster Kosteniuk and for that reason I had never thought about the...

WHAT WILL HAPPEN? For the record, Larry, my little vignette was designed primarily to dramatize the rationalization and weaseling of those who seek to ignore, discredit or discount Mottershead's information BEFORE it has been evaluated by one or more independent credentialed experts. Our Experts should then forward their findings to those qualified to weigh the electronic evidence against other...