Chess Forum / General Topics / June 2006

Why was not the traditional neutrality letter sent to candidates this
year?
I have been a candidate several times and each time I have received a
letter from the Executive Director congratulating me on becoming a

Lajos Steiner said the had never seen or heard of Rubinstein offering a
draw. Is there any evidence that AR ever offered a draw?

On January 29, 2005 Tim Hanke posted that he had rejoined the National
Guard and had volunteered to go fight in Iraq.
I believe that this should have been deemed a letter of resignation
and a replacement should have been appointed for Tim Hanke as VP of

From: TOMDORSCH
Date: 1997/09/30
Subject: Policy Board Expenses
The following expenses were incurred by Policy Board members for the

I got this message for the past several days.
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Jun 2006 winner will be, I suppose Taylor Kingston (won 23 games.)
$5.00
IInd Prize will go to Bonsai  (won 17 games) $2.00
IIIrd Prize will go to Joe_Mama (won 12 Games) $1.00

Here is a posting by Tim Hanke in the newsgroups
alt.language.latin,humanities.classics that appears to explain his
dropping out from chess governance:
From: Tim Hanke

I know I could probably download the official rules somewhere, but I
didn't.
I saw a book at the bookstore covering the rules for many games,
including chess. They had the standard touch-move rule, but then they

After reading this excerpt from Benko's book, I
finally made the connection:
... I was
dragged out of my cell and taken to a

Sam Sloan,
You are correct 100%.
Everyone seems to think that this is some "Chess Rule." It is not!
This is NOT an employee thing. Board members are not allowed by law to

The Amazon critics pan Book 1 as being full of crap, faulty analysis, too
many question marks and as having been written by teams of surrogates,
albeit, completely familiar with chess.
Being obsessive-compulsive and fearful, I can't even think of reading the

I am a guy but never learned to demean women, although I know a few good
blonde jokes.  I have always admired the Polgar girls; exceptional
accomplishments for one family, as well as nice Jewish girls!
Their book, Breaking Through, while interesting as a biography, seems even

The reviews on Amazon concerning this book suggest that a new approach to
chess writing is evident; exciting, witty, well-written, fabulous, on and
on.
Can anyone verify these claims, having read same and swooned?

Issue of Confidentiality on the firing of Grant Perks
It has been reported that Grant Perks was fired in a telephone
conference call on July 20, 2005 and that Beatriz Marinello, Steve
Shutt and Elizabeth Shaughnessy voted to fire Perks whereas Don

There has been a conversation about Karpov-Polugaevsky, Tilburg (round 2)
1983 at Chessgames.com (
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1068367 ). This is the game:
Karpov,Anatoly (2710) - Polugaevsky,Lev A (2625) [D32]