Chess Forum / Analysis / July 2007

I have to admit I have a hard time understanding why serious people
keep responding to the endless onslaught of speculation, innuendo, and
character assassination coming from Mr. Sloan. Simply ignore him
unless he has one of those rare moments when he posts something of

Previously I have made a contribution in this newsgroup about Stanley Random
Chess (SRC).  In the interests of the dedication of other Stanley Random
Chess fans to this memorable and exciting variant, I have recently published
"The GM Topov Stanley Random Chess Files" online.

So now one is not entitled to opinions?
"In my opinion, Mr. Lafferty lacks even the slightest trustworthiness.
I believe the evidence shows that he came into this forum with a chip
on his shoulder, determined to make trouble from the very first day.

I have created a Google Group called "chesstalk" http://groups.google.com/group/chesstalk
as an alternative to the rec.games.chess.* Usenet newsgroups, because
so much nonsense is posted to those groups. Anyone interested in chess
in invited to join. The list owner (me) will have ...

Assuming that the ballots were not stolen or given under coercion, I
don't know what can be done, or if anything should be done. If a
person asked another for recommendations to follow and filled them in
verbatim, how would that be materially different from handing the

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In another thread, Sam Sloan described a game between Norman
Whitaker and the many-time champion of Mexico, a Mr. Ferriz.  I
already noted in that thread that the move ...Nd4 did not threaten
"mate", but rather, a fork which nets a Rook to add to Black's already

Dear chess community,
[First, please do not be upset with this post.  I am only posting
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advertisement, nor is it spam.  I'm offering free material to chess

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I have a relative in prison and they can only use a cloth chessboard and
cloth chess pieces.  Nothing hard like plastic is allowed to avoid the
making of weapons in prison.
Does anyone know where I can buy a set of this nature ?

In my copy of "Basic Chess Endings" by Reuben Fine he refers to a puzzle
(No 53c) by Grigorieff demonstrating the use of the "distant opposition".
RF gives (in descriptive notation of course);
White: K at KB8 P's at QKt4 and KR4

I own of copy of Karpov's My 300 best games book. I met Karpov at a
chess simultaneous exhibition that he was giving a couple years ago.
He autographed my book for me.
I was wondering how much my book was worth because it is autographed