I'm not an advanced player. I used to like Chessmaster for the graphics and a friendly game, but it never worked well and crashed a lot. Now I understand it's gone. So what can I get for the PC that has that good a graphics, and I can play a decent relaxed game, without getting my butt kicked 100% of the time, which is discouraging? I used to like playing Chessmaster without a timer, and...

On Monday, May 20, 2013 3:07:54 AM UTC-4, samsloan wrote: On May 19, 5:48*pm, wrote: Good to see you again Sam. *Goichberg has always had tremendous influence over the ED and for that matter all actions at USCF. *To be honest I can't think of any ED in the past 20 years that hasn't rubbed at least someone the wrong way. *I dropped out of USCF in 2003 or so partly...

In my book I devote a chapter to how England could win the Chess Olympics. I predict that a large and welcome influx of East Europeans would increase the overall strength of English chess. Americans must not be ashamed too admit that a similar effect happened to its own chess atmosphere in the 1980s & 1990s. Onwards and upwards to the top! Of course Israel benefited as well. And now England. We...

Is this getting overrated? Chessbase came out with the list of the youngest GM's and the top 35 ( Magnus is 3rd but can't count him yet) to attain the title and none of the 35 has won a world title until you get to number 36 which is Bobby Fischer! Only Leko has played for a world title but lost who is in the 35. Since Fischer is 36th what makes the others in front of him so special? Even...

I was just informed that a post of mine was pulled from the USCF Issues Forum as an alleged AUG violation, for the first time ever. My post objected to the pulling of other posts in the thread "ED job listing?". Anyone with two brain cells and a clue about USCF could guess that Mr. Hall's departure was not all sweetness and light, on one or both sides. So it goes: That often happens in such...