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I was doing badly in a recent rapidplay and may have accidentally discovered
something. I was playing a youngster who was finding all the right moves but
found I beat him simply by putting the pressure on until he finally made a
mistake.

I struggled after Black's 14...f4 in the following game played by e-mail.
1. e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Nxe4 4.Qh5 Nd6 5.Bb3 Nc6 6.Nb5 g6 7.Qf3 f5 8.Qd5
Qe7 9.Nxc7+ Kd8 10.Nxa8 b6 11.Nxb6 axb6 12.d3 Bb7 13.Qf3 Nd4 14.Qh3 f4 15.c3
Nxb3 16.axb3 g5 17.Ne2 h5 18.f3 Bg7 19.g4 Qe6 20.O-O hxg4 ...

Bill Brocks obsession with Sam Sloan as a former master
Bill Brock has asked the same question about 50 times in the past few
days:
On 29 Aug 2005 10:00:16 -0700, "politikalhack@gmail.com"

Liberal Politician Kasparov Says Russia Wants Him Out
Created: 22.08.2005 11:20 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 11:20 MSK , 2 hours 55
minutes ago
MosNews

Bs'd
I think the answer is simple: He would never end up in a rotten
position like the one I found myself in the other day on Yahoo chess.
Therefore I want to ask the chess community here for advice what should

Are there any good books that covered this World Championship Match.How
did Petrosian dominate Mikhail?Who was favored going into this match?

Bs'd
I am looking for a place to play decent chess.  Yahoo still doesn't
send the game notation by email, fics is impossible to get on without a
paid email, so I am looking for a different place.

I have made a PGN file of all the games between Karpov and Kasparov. No
dupes and with dates, venues and clock times if known. Give it a go!
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=411PGJ2N

I am intrigued by the potential of
http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation
for locating false posters.
For example, yesterday I was able to use this service to establish

I have just finished posting in the Wikipedia Encyclopedia biographies
of several notable chess personalities. Beatriz Marinello will be
especially happy to learn that I have posted a biography of her at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatriz_Marinello

I picked up a used copy of Maurice Ashley's 2005, Chess for Success by
Random House.
I was a little put off because it seems the editors made the decision
to always capitalize the term "Black" when refering to African

My daughter has taken up chess and would like to play and learn online.
Can anyone recommend a good free site besides Yahoo Games? She
mentioned that she often encounters escapers there when she's winning.
There also seem to be no opportunities for her to review her games with

I've been looking to purchase a nice, wooden, 3" chess set strictly t
be used for studying.  Does anyone have any suggestions?  I figure
that I should splurge on my "study set", because, in all honesty, thi
is the set that I spend the most time with, so why shouldn't I trea

I know just enough about chess to know that the consensus is that
beginners ought to study tactics above all else--some sources recommend
studying tactics exclusively.  (Like all things, I'm sure there are
those who disagree.)

 This might be a common FAQ (I'm a first-timer in this group), but:
 Why there seems to be such a huge difference in the ranking of standard
and blitz games at FICS?
 My best rank at standard games has been 1734 (currently 1708), while