(From the FIDE-chess newsgroup) MESSAGE FROM BRITISH GM RAYMOND KEENE It's time to leave fide. Ilumzinov-fide pres- has been outed by the cia as a pro saddam oil profiteer. Azmai-fide vice pres- has been arrested by spanish anti terrorist police.

The US Women's team earned the Silver medal, playing very solid chess. They were the only Women's team to lose just a single match. They also managed to defeat the Chinese team in their head-to-head match-up in the 10th Round. In the final round, the US Women dominated Vietnam, 2.5-0.5, which enabled them to pull ahead of the Russian Women's team (which had the section's 2nd highest average team...

(Sam Sloan) wrote in message ... I did not proof-read it carefully enough. True. Another erratum: 'For example, the states may not require residence in the Congressional District nor may they require length of residence, for example.'

Kramnik has evidently pulled out of the Prague agreement, which he signed onto only reluctantly. I don't want to say "I told you so" but I did predict the unification was a fantasy. Now Krumnutz wants to dictate the terms of his next match. Specifically he wants Pono, Anand, Kasparov, and Kasim to play a 4-person tournament to determine his challenger. None of these guys, with the possible...

On 31 Oct 2004 23:43:59 GMT, (Graeme) wrote: Anybody know how far back Chess Life goes? I know Chess Review goes back to 1933, and Chess Life probably began some time well after that. The earliest issue I've ever seen is January 1962, but it obviously was nowhere near the first one. Anybody? I believe that Chess Life newspaper started in about 1947.

Five months ago I sent an article for publication “Five US Opens� to the Editor of CHESS LIFE. I enclosed a self-addressed, stamped, envelope. He did NOT respond. I wrote the Editor twice more without a response. I then wrote to William Goichberg about this. I sent Goichberg a story for publication: The Mind Reader. I did not receive a response. I wrote Goichberg again and did not receive a...

(Isidor Gunsberg) wrote in message ... The Libyan Men's Chess team employed interesting tactic to strive to garner individual honors for several of their players. This involved having their highest rated players--Hussien Asabri (2286), and FM Ibrahim Chahrani (2273)--play on the **lowest** boards, so that...

Just to set the record straight, I'm 65, and I'll be 66 on Nov. 7, 2004. I'd like to add that nearly everything my landlady said was mistaken. I never refused to go to the hospital. I did sign myself out of the hospital against medical advice the week before. I had gone back to the emergency room with a bad case of gout, and they grabbed me and wouldn't let me leave because I had tachycardia...

.. Graeme, the logic man, seems to have flubbed this one up. It is mistaken to assume that simply because someone fails to criticise myriad other things at a particular moment, he must "therefore" approve of them. For example, in the following game:

All sorts of crazy ideas get thrown about on how to reduce draws in top-level chess. I usually am against these measures because I believe the games belong to the players. They have the most to gain or lose. However, Kramnik-Leko just played their second consecutive GM draw. They trotted out 14 book moves (as far as I can see they were book moves), at which point they repeated moves three times...

Some posters have rightly pointed out in this group that I am consistently negative about the USCF. They wonder why I don't point out the good things the USCF has accomplished, but instead resort to hyperbole and invective to constantly criticize the USCF, its leadership, and its services. Well, there is a reason for that. I believe that what the USCF provides its adult members is so meager that...

At 02:03 PM 10/26/2004 +0200, Kaarlo Schepel wrote: ?E¿ Dear friends of (a democratic) FIDE, In our open letter to the delegates at the General Assembly, there was one inaccuracy. The request for 20 rooms concerned the failed Kasparov-Ponomariov bid. The text should therefore read under (5) as follows: (b) Is it true that the FIDE-office requested 20 luxury hotel rooms to attend...

Perhaps you have already planned/done this...I was curious... There are some special reports (top X lists, top X by state, by grade by state, etc.) that people would find useful. Are you creating the ability to pay for and request special queries directly online? Kevin --

Chess HQ will be OK in Crossville despite the desire by many that the organization should remain in New York. Nowadays the USCF could be fully operational from anywhere in the country.. even in the small town South. Press on with the move and get over it if you don't like it. Old Haasie

The Prague Plan was like this: Kramnik against the winner of Dortmund (turned out to be Leko), and Kasparov against Ponomariov. And then a final with the two winners. FIDE has skipped that plan, not Kramnik, as they have replaced Ponomariov with Kazhim...., a somewhat weaker player. In that situation, where FIDE does not stick to the original agreement, I see nothing wrong in Kramnik considering...

Does Kramnik keep title if match drawn v Kasparov or Kasim?

US Consul-General Edward McKeon's letter to R Fischer, dated 21 Sep 2004, is at: http://home.att.ne.jp/moon/bobby_d/p_65/65_0.htm McKeon is Minister Counselor and Consul-General at the US embassy in Tokyo. -- banana "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you

George Mirijanian wrote: It is becoming more apparent to me that four members of the USCF's executive board voted in a Oct. 17 conference call to move the federation's operations to Crossville, Tennessee, because they feared a lawsuit from the city of Crossville after receiving a letter several months ago from the city attorney, Kenneth M. Chadwell, of the law firm Looney & Looney,...

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Does anybody know the story behind this? Why is he playing for Palestine? I wouldn't think that it would be because of a big stipend, although I suppose that it is possible. The Oil rich Gulf Arab states have purchased a lot of sporting and chessic talent over the past few years. Come to think of it, how come Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait aren't playing in the Olympiad? 1.50 50 ...