Chess Forum / General Topics / July 2006

Here is my Wikipedia biography of Batchimeg Tuvshintugs.
Better look at it quick, before vandals like "Rook wave" (Ralf
Callenberg) and Louis Blair hack it up.
Batchimeg Tuvshintugs

Is the Match still on for Sept?.Last I heard it will be a 12 game
match.Any predictions or thoughts?

"Badmouthing" is a very mild understatement.
Read:
http://www.mk.ru/numbers/2286/article79640.htm
Quote:

Greetings to all -
I've been playing online chess on games.yahoo.com/ch for awhile and was
kind of happy with their java applet interface. It had some problems
but that flash one that they have replaced it with recently is just

Kramnik interview yesterday after the simul where he won 12 out of 12   60
30 TC.
The simul was held on ICC and was provided FREE for our members. We held a
qualifying

Grant Perks, having lost the election, is trying to abolish the
Executive Board
Grant Perks, a former Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer
of the USCF, apparently must have thought that he was just

Got a favourite chess website? Please send me the URL so I can add it
to my new website. Please e-mail it to: webmaster at chesslinks dot
info
Thanks.

Hanken more Fully Explains the OLM Title
Jerry Hanken called me at 7:00 AM this morning to continue our
conversation of last night. He says that I caught him as he was on the
way out the door when I called him to ask about the OLM Program and he

When I play with Beginner Level, I find the computer sacrifices its
pawns for no reasion. But Once I am pawn up, I find that it is taking
long time to defeat it. So was this pawn sacrifice done to improve the
game position.

I was a member of the USCF about 20 years ago and competed in a couple of
rated tournaments. I had a (very modest) rating and was listed in the
ratings pages in the back of the Chess Life magazine.
If I re-join the USCF, will my old ratings and tournament history be

Bs'd
I can't get fics.  What's happening?  I don't wanna go back to yahoo,
God forbid.
Eliyahu

    Probably just me but but as one example, game 3:
1. e4 g6
2. d4 Bg7
3. Nc3 d6

Worth it or not?. Will it lose members or not? I think the allowed five years at lower rate will cancel any losses. It did for me. I think 209 for five years is a steal.
I think no play for non member is a mistake myself. It may cost more than it saves?

... in Zurych, against Judy Polgar, Victor Korcznoy
and Anatoly Karpov. It's going to be a blitz tournament.
What is a nice girl like Judy doing in a company
of three Ks? Well, she has a good chance to win.