Chess Forum / General Topics / August 2004

I'm typing some games from a book I'm reading and came up with
something I couldn't figure out how to represent in PGN.
The game ends with the resignation of the black player, and then the
author analyzes a variation of what could have happened if the player

From: Alan M. Kirshner, Ph.D.
To: hegemon42@comcast.net
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 10:30 PM
Subject: No commentary needed!

A surprisingly lopsided match that Hydra won 5.5 - 2.5. Some of the games
are a bit mysterious, but interesting:
http://www.chessbase.de/2004/Abudhabi/komplett.htm

[Kudos to Russell Targ for his honourable actions].
From the 'Washington Times':
<http://washingtontimes.com/world/20040830-091413-6723r.htm>
***BEGIN ARTICLE***

So what happens when you put a lying miscreant as a treasurer of a
State Chess orginization?
Check out Cal Chess now. "Take the money and Run" Peterson, who has
been involved in multiple squirmishes with the USCF ended up treasurer

We discuss Bobby Fischer topic in our Copenhagen club and need the
comments of highly intellectual Russian speaking guys who are
interested in the subject. U are welcome and all ur comments will be
highly appreciated.

I've just installed Chessmaster 10th Ed. and now that I try to use it says
it won't run because my computer has "CD/DVD emulation software installed"
and that I have to deactivate it.
Does anyone know what that means and how I get Chessmaster to work?

The website www.logicalchess.com offers quite a bit of nonsense.  On one
page alone, I found:
*Weinstein, Norman (1950- )
Killed an 83-year old man in a nursing home - the first murder by a master.

Thanks for any info.

Statting later on Wednesday night on eBay, a complete set of 1966-67
US Championship bulletins. Here is the eBay auction ad. Look at the
statement  from Rd 3:
"There have been several complaints by more than one player that the

I like to play chess but I don't study the game.  I would like to be able to
start a game with Chessmaster and have an option to tell
Chessmaster........Don't make that move but make the next best one.
This would give me a chance to play an opening without having to remember

I think he's done quite a fine job with this online "graphic novelette":
http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/chess/chess.html
Brett
http://www.100bestwebsites.org/

Though I take a back seat to no one in my admiration for Kramnik, I'm
puzzled by this paragraph from his new, official website.
*****
The list of his victories is long, very long. He has already finished all

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[ Subject: Japan Orders Deportation of Bobby Fischer
[ From: nytr@olm.blythe-systems.com
[ Date: 24 Aug 2004 15:48:04 -0500

The quick back-of-the-envelope method for calculating the performance rating
(pr) of a player in a single event is to add add up the ratings of all
opponents, then add an additional 400 for each win and subtract 400 for each
loss, and then finally divide by the number of opponents ...