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With good eyes you can see Anatoly Karpov

For my last posting i got this reply,
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Rob

Goichberg Slate is sweeping election
Although only 25% of the ballots have been counted, the Goichberg
slate consisting of Goichberg, Channing, Shahade and Tanner are
leading in the USCF Election by a margin of more than two-to-one. They

I seem to remember that the fifth man in the Philby-Burgess-MacLean-Blunt
spy ring was rumoured to be a chess player. The internet seems to think that
John Cairncross was the 5th man, but I don't think he was a chess player.
Victor Rothschild is also put in the frame - he did ...

Oy, ejay, oy! Nakamura lost, he played rather irrationally, did he not? Or
he grossly overestimated his own chances in the opening where he was way
ahead in development at the expense of a bunch of pawns.
Well, still 4 more rounds to go!

I saw a situation online the other day that got me thinking.
There's a tense, well-played middlegame by both players.  Your opponent
has a slight advantage.
You commit a howler of an error - a move that threatens mate in one,

Carlsen blundered badly in the opening in Biel Round 7 and lost in 15 moves
against Pelletier (White). The game gives the impression that Kramnik
trained Carlsen and the student remembers the wrong stuff, ouch. Pelletier
moves up to 4 points.

NARCISSUS
<Given the likelihood that this is Parr praising himself, perhaps
"cynic" (a.k.a. "jr") should have instead chosen the pseudonym
Narcissus.> Taylor Kingston

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Grant Perks, the CFO of  the USCF, has been fired.
The firing took place just three days before the ballot count, with
Beatriz Marinello, Elizabeth Shaughnessy and Steve Shutt voting to
fire Grant Perks and Don Schultz voting against.

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Ok, so it's only 3.5 inches, but it sure feels good up my a.s during
those bumpy rides through the barracks in the army jeep.
Matt Nemmers

I tried loading Chessmaster 3000 onto my Windows 98 computer and it seemed
to load ok , but all the text was scrambled..... is there a text setting
that would fix this problem....... the game played ok otherwise I just can
not read the menu items

Hikaru Nakamura leads the GM section of the Biel Chess Festival after 6
rounds.Good luck Hikaru and continue to show your progress.