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Anyone seen these, 5 in number and available through Mike Leahy and Chess 4
Less?
Any good?
Reply to newsgroup.

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One of my favorite games is Lilienthal defeating Capablanca in the latter's
own style:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1090860

[Event "Marshall Chess Club"]
[Site "New York NY"]
[Date "2005.05.30"]
[Round "02"]

does anybody know of a web chess server which can be used via a pda or
blackberry?
THX, Josef

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In the best tradition of chessbase, the pictures important to chess are at
the beginning of the web page, whereas the enjoyable pictures are at the
bottom. You may want to browse the web page from the bottom up and stop at

Hi! Is this a "general" forum for questions, advice, theory,
analization, etc ??? IF not, can someone point me in the right
direction?? Thanks!
-Eric

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A lot of swimwear pictures too, especially of the champion herself.
But before that, is a picture of the smallest chess set ever made, don't
forget to enjoy that too.

Introduction:
I think, that after one has made some basic progress
towards improving chess skills, the time comes where
it becomes apparent, that further progress will require

   In the past year, Hikaru Nakamura has gained quite the following in
the US, as the best prospect for high-level success in the chess
circuit. However, Fabiano Caruana has just achieved an IM norm. Caruana
is only 12 years of age, which is IIRC how old Nakamura was when he

Thursday, May 26, 2005
Question from a chess enthusiast
A fan raised this question to me on another forum. The question came
up because the USCF officially canceled the US Women's Olympiad

I want to open a topic about the resources of chess databases
available online. Where do you collect fresh games from?
I personally prefer the 10 Days database of chessmix.com because my
observations are to have the most games, also the tidiest and most

I have been trying to get a complete picture of the USSR championship
held in Riga 1958 (won by M.Tal) but I have some problems.
In the database at pittsburgh chess club, I can find all but two games,
two wins with black against Taimanov and Kotov. I as able to find them

Going into this final round are the leaders of the pack with Bologan at 6,
Sokolov at 5.5, and Shirov and Timofeev at 5. Divine intervention lets the
leaders play among themselves for first place.
Bologan vs Timofeev is a Sicilian Sveshnikov in which both players manoever

  Obviously, Topalov is the big winner from the event. He was able to
win 4 out of his 10 games, defeating Anand and Kramnik in the process.
His games were full of fight and dynamic ideas. It will be interesting
to see whether he will dominate in Dortmund, in July. Leko ought to be

A new article at The Campbell Report:
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About the author, and his writing, from the sophisticated minds of
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