Is this really going to happen? Is this what we discussed at the Nashville planning session? Was this premature? I thought I was to handle the releases. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Very important announcement coming up

On Apr 1, 9:32*am, (Sam Sloan) wrote: It has been announced on the Internet this morning that Susan Polgar is resigning all her positions in chess and moving back to Hungary. 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...

Some people have found Bobby' laptop and started going through his files. They found some old e-mails he sent. It turns out he was giving advice to Korchnoi, Kasparov, and even Topalov. He came up with that Nxf7 novelty that Topalov played against Kramnik: Take a look: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4543

http://www.iht.com/bin/printfriendly.php?id=11520991 Try this headline: Black Hole Eats Earth "Eric Normandeau" wrote: Nice try :) Happy 1st of april! Article date was March 29th, 2008. I could have delayed to April 2: The -suggestion- of an April Fool's joke was the actual joke on you. Whatever the merits of their lawsuit, the fact of a...

Hello Chess Friends, Thirsting for new subjects in this newsgroup, I caught the following at Susan's blog the other day: http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2008/03/wwwsofiapolgarcom.html I did not know that Zsofia was a painter or that she was interested in international environmental issues. Perhaps we do not hear enough about the third Polgar sister.

On Apr 1, 9:32*am, (Sam Sloan) wrote: It has been announced on the Internet this morning that Susan Polgar is resigning all her positions in chess and moving back to Hungary. 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...

which it may well not be, I hope that all who remain will constructively start an open and transparent healing process with putting the USCF's finances in order as the first priority. Assuming that an election must be held to fill two vacancies, I would hope that Harry Payne and Donna Alarie will consider running for the Executive board. They are both honest, straightforward and openly blunt...

http://www.chessville.com/misc/PolgarQuits.htm

There is a rumor bouncing around that Sevan Muradian and his North American Chess Association will be trying to take away from the USCF it's FIDE affiliation. Also, supposedly the North American Chess Association is trying to become the governing body of chess in Canada, Mexico and the USA. I can tell you that none of this will ever happen, so do not worry about it.

Here is an interesting story: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article3523718.ece http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/14/europe/EU-GEN-Italy-Da-Vinci-Chess-Code.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_Pacioli March 29, 2008 WINNIPEG FREE PRESS PAGE: F9

http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2008/03/breaking-news-top-players-said-no-to.html Any other news about this? Why are the top players refusing invitations? Is this a boycott? -- Cordially, Rev. J.D. Walker, MsD, U.C.

I keep reading that in 1934 Louis H. Watson was ranked the number 4 bridge player in the world. He died tragically in 1936 at age 29. Why was he ranked number 4 ? Who were numbers 1, 2 and 3 ?? I have searched newspaper reports from 1932-1934 and it seems that Watson was winning almost everything. The one time that his team finished only second, it was attributed to a series of highly

As few people said FICS gives correct Rating. I played 3 Games at FICS against Beginner Level, To my amazement Beginner won all the three games. It beat three players of Rating 1832 and 1700 and 1500. And Now FICS rates GetClub Beginner level as 1800+ So all those who used to say Beginner plays less than 1800 Look at this game. See how Beginner Sacrificed its Knight and Won the game.

Help bot suggested about the blockade strategy it helped GetClub play much stronger games now. I played two games with Beginner vs Rybka and found even Rybka is not able to get ahead and finish GetClub like it used to earlier. It is taking longer for Rybka to win against the Beginner Level. As Beginner is not allowing Rybka to take its pieces easily. The Games are ending with +10 Moves.

From chessdiscussion, the Trolgar owned and controlled "discussion" forum apparently answering her own question: "by SusanPolgar on Sun Mar 30, 2008 5:32 am I was asked the following question today on my blog: "How bad are the finances at USCF ? How likely is it that USCF declares bankruptcy ? What steps are being taken to avoid financial collapse?" Here is my answer:

INTERPRETATION The sage whose words are ambiguous you call great. Those who advocate discipline you shun. With one, you treat words the way you want. With the other, you resent having no quarter. "365 Tao" by Deng Ming-Dao

But precisely because Mr. M is my friend, and because I know his character, I am inclined to give him every benefit of the doubt. BTW Bill Brock sent over 400 E Mails in a fit of rage. -----Original Message----- From: Sevan Muradian Sent: Sun 01/22/2006 21:39 To: ; Brad Rosen Cc:

If you have an Executive Director who is utterly worthless, or who does not tell the board what he is doing or who often lies about what he has done, then you have a situation where the ED cannot be trusted with such critical decisions as the hiring or firing of the Editor of Chess Life. The USCF has lost more than two million dollars since 1999 and is losing $300,000 more so far this year. None...

The idea was floated this morning on the Truong/Polgar controlled chessdiscussion site: "by Zarathustra on Fri Mar 28, 2008 11:35 am The United States Chess Federation has lost its support with the adult membership, with the members leaving or left and, the rest just questioning why they are a member in the first place. Even with the flood of scholastic members, that we give moral support...

http://gambit.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/drive-to-recall-member-of-chess-federations-board-is-under-way/#more-187