Chess Forum / General Topics / May 2005

http://www.chessbase.de/nachrichten.asp?newsid=4308 (in German)
Interesting are the following snippets towards the end of the interview:
"I'm 30 and still interested in playing chess, but feel like a veteran
(mentions Radjabov, Karjakin, Carlson) ... I would not play on until end ...

Exciting news! GM Spassky had such a wonderful time in Reno at last
year's Western States Open that he and his wife Marina have agreed to
return for an encore appearance! Excellent coverage of last year's
memorable event is at www.chess-now.com, "Boris Spassky Visit".  This

Antique Jacques Staunton Chess Sets Owned by David Miller
The purpose in my posting is that I have two Staunton chess sets by
Jacques,that belonged to and were used by my late grandfather, David Miller.
I am not a chess player and have many other cherished souvenirs of my

Forgive me, a late night meandering.  I do this for my nieces on
occasion.  I left whose move it is as irrelevant as possible.
This is posted:
atl.general,alt.chess,rec.games.chess.politics,rec.games.chess.computers,rec.games.chess.misc

Looking for a recommendation for a book on tactics.  I haven't played chess
in about 10 years and when I did play I was rather weak, about 1300 tops.
I am retired now (60 years old--I know it is rather late to start chess, but
I enjoy the game) and have lots of time to study, but ...

Someone wrote on the ChessTalk forum that
GM Leonid Shamkovich died a few days ago,
Is it true ? Can someone confirm this ?

    could anyone point me in the right direction for some
resources re the subject - I am about to run one as I think it sounds
best fit for our two teams
thanks - Keith

The Turing Test for Computers is to ask questions toi both a computer
and a human. If the tester cannot tell from the answers which one is
the human and which one is the computer then it can be said that the
computer has intelligence and can think like a human.

after an adjourned match , that bugs me , the players should not have
anyone help them.
 Should just be one on one ,, I think that Fischer hated that too ?

Tim Redman is Gay. George DeFeis is Gay. Frank Niro is Gay. Steve Shutt
is Gay. I am from Texas and I do not think George John looks like his
kid. I have not even mentioned the lesbians.
The USCF is an unsafe organization for children to play chess. I have

Have you read Gelfand's opinion about Fischer, Kasparov, Nakamura?
Very interesting, but very predictable answer about Fischer and Kasparov.
Maybe the same idea lies under mild underestimation of Nakamura.
Any comment, why Gelfand don't like Fischer and likes Kasparov? I think I

The statement below is from
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2357
As expected, Kramnik won't play in Argentina. Perhaps somewhat unexpected is
that he is willing to consider the FIDE tournament as a candidate

I am looking for chess software that will do the following
1) have a good clear 2D board and pieces display (most PC chess
software has average 2D chess board and pieces at best)
2) compatible with Windows XP

For centuries it has been an opening that every chess player knows
about and has played against, but has never had a name.
Now, it has a name. Before, it was just the Patzer Opening. Everybody
knew what that was, but that was not an official name.

Hello Mr. Kingston:
It was with great interest I re-read your ChessCafe articles on the
Keres-Botvinnik question, and I wonder if the Averbakh memoirs referred
to by Sztein (sp?) were, in fact, ever published.