Chess Forum / General Topics / March 2007

I've just bought this.  I have a couple of questions.
Is the training option the option you play when you just want a quick
game?  Rating mode seems to not be the kind of option you want if you
are playing quickly since it can damage your rating. Tournament also

As regular readers of this group are aware, there has been some
discussion here of a post last month by Phil Innes, that claimed to
present statistics on draw rates in world championship games. As I
pointed out then, these statistics were wildly inaccurate.

I heard a lot of skipy news about GetClub. I am assured those who play
at GetClub like it a lot. While Those who have not played are the only
once who are out raged.
Here is the Current Story about GetClub Chess.

"The Middle Game of Go", long out of print, has just been reprinted.
It is available on Amazon at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0923891773/
This is the third of a three part series on go by Sakata Eio. The

Gruppen,
Is GM Adjoran a meritricious individual [on the face of the Earth] or
not? Is 'merit' persay a _value_ of any worth? I think not. It was 'bot'
who applied the sobriquet "merit" to the unfortunate GM. Personally I

Inconnux = Jason Lohner = Fetal Alcohol effects baby = 1311 chess
rating
http://www.chess.ca/memberinfo.asp?CFCN=144557
Here he loses to someone even LOWER rated than he is:

Looks like we're in the throes of some middlegame tension. He who's isp
pulls the plug first....loses!
By the way, there was some discussion of the rating differences between
Canadians and americans. Most people already know (including most americans)

Thanks to all in this newsgroup for providing me a couple of months of
diversion. I recently came back to organized chess after several years away,
and I'd hoped that this group would be discussing personalities, strategies,
tactics, the history of the game, etc. You know, the ...

If you love chess and want to learn the secrets of winning more games
faster and in less moves than before, then 101 Chess Strategies will
show you more moves and combinations than you could ever imagine.
It's not like any other book you've ever read on Chess Strategies

Most 19th century ivory chess set have red for the dark pieces.
1.  What was the dye used?
2. Why was red the primary color choice?
Thanks in advance.

...against Teichmann, in the fourth round of San Sebastian 1911, after
playing 14. Qa4. Is there a story here?
Best regards,
zdrakec

Joel Channing Threatens to Shut Down the USCF Forums Unless the Forum
Members Behave Better
Joel Channing wrote:
Don Schultz and I (and I believe a majority of the Board) are

Goichberg Stooges on the Forums Moderating Committee
Several people have wondered whether it was even legal, much less
proper, for Bill Goichberg to put a bunch of his own stooges on the
"Forums Moderating Committee", who thereafter almost immediately and

As usual, the little coward continues to back down and hide like the
frightened little eunuch he is. I'm 100% positive this lackey imbecile
has NEVER once been with a woman.
Were you beaten and humiliated by your parents Help-Bitch? I'm trying

I would like to point out that in the above posting John Hillary uses
the word "lied" three times and the word "lie" once.
Yet, there words are supposedly banned from this forum.
I am not really complaining because I am opposed to censorship and