Chess Forum / General Topics / June 2005

I am impressed with the ChessMaster 10 lessons by Josh Waitzkin.  In my
opinion these alone are worth the price of the ChessMaster program--and I
haven't even gotten to the ones by Larry Christiansen or the "ChessMaster
Series" section.  Are there any similar quality lessons ...

I have sent in my votes today. I voted for:
Sam Sloan
Bobby Fischer
Raymond Weinstein

I find myself, for the first time in years, without any family members at home
for a weekend. I would like to drive to the closest available 1 day tournament.
At one point in time, this would be easy; check the TLAs in Chess Life. Nowadays,
many of the tournaments are not advertised ...

The USCF Ballot seems to be conceived with the idea of expediting
fraud.  The Ballots are not numbered or coded so that anyone with white
paper and printer could print and submit an unlimited number of ballots
to the Accountants who have assumed no responsibility for the integrity

New Fischer's interview in Russian is published on Russian web site:
http://www.rodgaz.ru/index.php?action=Articles&dirid=130&tek=16157&issue=201
If somebody doesn't understand Russian he can use online translator.
Goran Tomic

I have the July 31st, 1972 issue of Time Magazine which has a cover story on
the World Championship match.
I'm willing to give it to a bona fide collector for the price of postage. I
won't give it to someone who will resell it.

N'ydada,  the 'solden' they put the fliesion (the fleish)  first! tHEY
PPUTTEN their 'pennises' in the gaaapping  'oles of 'ol Kansas town. Ah
- gootta say too you now town, I've enjoyed your co. - no end.
Ahh just love ya - so much. - yeh baby!..

GM Vladimir Savon (1940-2005) has died in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Vladimir Savon won the 1971 USSR Championship ahead of players
such as Bronstein, Geller, Karpov, Polugaevsky, Smyslov, Stein,
Taimanov, and Tal.

What non-chess schools did Polgar sisters, Leko, Kramnik, Topalov and Adams
attend in their youth ? In other words : what is the level of non-chess
education of top level chess players ?
Regards,

In 1937, Reuben Fine visited the USSR and played in two small
tournaments, both of which he won.  One was held in Leningrad and the
other in Moscow.
The games from the Leningrad tournament are in the standard databases,

This seems to be the most recent K-K game. The score seems to be a bit
garbled, because 14...Ne5 loses a piece. Does anyone know the correct score?
[Event "Reykjavik Blitz (Cat XV)"]
[Site "Reykjavik, Iceland"]

There are so many proposals regarding discouraging draws, but I have not seen any
opinions on revival of some 19th century practices that seem reasonable.
Some tournaments had in addition to the regular reward for 1st, 2d, 3d, ... a
reward per game played, in which 2 players ...

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2414

I always like to see success stories of young chess
players-their progression from D player to A champion,
so I looked up the rating history of the
winner of U2000 section at the recent HB Global Challenge. I expected