Chess Forum / General Topics / April 2004

I ran into this yesterday.  Not sure what to do.
I created a discovered checkmate yesterday, but the bishop checking my opponents king
was itself pinned by my opponents queen, blocking a checkmate of my own king.
How is this resolved?

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I emailed the USCF telling them that I didn't get my April 2004 issue of Chess
Life about 3 days ago. Does anyone know how long it will be before they reply?
I had to go out and buy it so I didn't miss it. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.

www.ruschess.com is featuring the
XI Russian Chess Club Championship in Sochi.
A rare appearance by 2732 rated A. Morozevich +3 other 27xx players
Most games of interest can be replayed on a game-replay engine at the

Does anyone know if the 1972 Fischer-Spassky world championship
coverage that PBS aired can be found anywhere? I looked on the PBS
website, but I couldn't find anything there, and they don't respond to
inquiries about programs aired before 1994. Also internet searches

Here is a quote about the great mathematician,
Edmund Landau, from:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Landau.html
or

Yes,
all leading players refused to participate:
Anand, Karpov, Svidler, Ponomarev, Bareev, Khalifman, Shirov, etc.

Does someone in soc.culture.magyar know if travel to Hungary was
officially banned by the U.S. State Department in 1950?  In a chess
newsgroup we have a question whether the U.S. Grandmaster Samuel
Reshevsky was forbidden to participate in a tournament in Budapest, or

I have just posted an article by chess historian Neil Brennen.  Read
"The Champion of the North:  James Jellett's Adventures in American
Chess".  This article describes some of the players in Minnesota during
the early 1800's.  Imagine a player being insulted because another

I've only recently become interested in chess, probably as an
outgrowth of my fiancée's family's penchant for board games. (Mostly
Scrabble and the like. Fun, but sometimes I get frustrated with the
fact that, for no reason but chance, one player can end up with a

Lev Khariton:Point of No Return
(200 Words, www.pakchess.com)
It is not without interest that I read almost daily various articles,
mail, etc. regarding the future of the World Championship, who the

IMHO, with 110 players out of 128 signing the Players' Undertaking it is
becoming obvious that the ACP has no pull, and that, contrary to the ACP's
motto ("Injustice done to one is a threat to all.") when it comes to the
bottom line, players care far more about their own personal ...

I am happy to announce that International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster
Master Toni Thaler has agreed to play a Rest of world match on
chessworld.net.  This is a voting game where the "Rest of the World" (ROW)
votes for the moves against the master, and the highest voted move ...

There is this quote from Tartakover:
"Reti studies mathematics although he is not a dry mathematician;
represents Vienna without being Viennese; was born in old Hungary yet
he does not know Hungarian; speaks uncommonly rapidly only in order to

I can not find the solution for white's strategy to counter
1.d4-e5 2.de5-Nc6 3.Nf3-Nge7(?!)...
if 4.Nc3-Ng6 5.Ng5-Ne7 6.Ne7-Qe7 7.Nd5-Qd8 followed by 0-0 and Re8 and black
takes back at e5 and gets equality...