Chess Forum / General Topics / October 2005

I'm not new to chess but I didn't really start playing until this past
spring.  Anyway I find that I play naturally in a defensive manner
meaning that I try to anticipate what my opponent is doing/going to do
and defend against whatever his moves are/will be.  However I

Anyone read this yet?

I submit for your amusement one of my own recent games. It's probably not
well played, and I'm sure you can poke holes in it if you tried. The point
is, I don't ever recall seeing a final position where the losing side is so
badly constricted.  IMO 46...Rg8 makes it easy, ...

"Well, I voted for Sam because I believe he would tell us what is going on
inside the USCF instead of keeping secrets as this and previous boards have
done."
And talking of secrets, I think I know the topic of conversation next week

Has anyone seen this yet..From 19 to 23 november in Bilbao with Hydra
Junior, Fritz and Ponomariov,
Jalifman, Kasimdzhanov.
http://www.chessbase.com/espanola/newsdetail2.asp?id=382

MosNews have just reported:-
FIDE Boss Offers to Buy Lenin's Body for $1 Million
Created: 28.10.2005 14:58 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 14:58 MSK
Head of the FIDE World Chess Federation, and the president of the Russian

Mind Sports Festival Oulu 2005
International Activity Center Toppelius
October 21st, 2005
Fischerandom Chess

How difficult is this?
The authors can sell through Clickbank, USCF can become a Clickbank
affiliate, market the e-books on their site, and take 50 percent of the sale
from every author.

Small new online Chess Club. Play on your own schedule! from 15 mins to
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been open ~8 weeks. We would gladly welcome more .

I am trying to understand the concept of centralization. I've always
understood it as "control or occupation of the center," but I have
begun reading Nimzovich lately and today came across this quote* about
Morphy. I am getting confused. Could anyone give me a simple definition

 In the rgcp thread "Schiller, Westerinen and Myers" I examined
Eric Schiller's excuses for recommending a book that does not exist
as the "best" on the Nimzovich Defense, presenting testimony from
GM Heikki Westerinen and NM Hugh Myers. In my recent correspondence

Here is a model drug-testing petition. Please circulate it locally and
send it to the President of the USCF and the other members of the EB.
Collect signatures with the pledge of honor by the signatories either
not to purchase or to reconsider purchasing USCF memberships and books

I have googled and yahoo'd without finding what I seek, so I turn to the
wise sages of usenet.
I do Viking-age re-enactment, and recently bought a set of chess pieces
copied from the ones found on Isle of Lewis ( see

In view of the recent Schiller-slugfest I thought it would be interesting to
engage some truly expert opinion on the value of modern opening books.
Here is an extract that deserves our attention - not because of the pair of
high-calibre commentators who contribute to it - but ...

Could someone point me in the direction on some good reading regarding
Kasparov's split with FIDE in 1993, why there is now seemingly no
'unified' Chess World Championship and why FIDE has moved from the
traditional Championship match to the much less exciting tournament