Chess Forum / General Topics / April 2007

Poor Bill Goichberg doesn't know that the Executive Board already
passed a motion to give a life membership in the USCF to the President
of the Virginia Tech Chess Club, who was shot but survived the
shooting.

[quote="ICC-TD Duncan"][color=darkred]I have about 12 or 15 years of
chess life in a big box.
I just moved and I guesstimate it weighed between 50 - 100 lbs.
I have back problems and could not lift it although I used to be able

According to Kasparov (vol. 2), Euwe
for the happiest event of his life had
nominated receiving professorship
in 1964 (and not winning the chess

Criminal Minds Having a Veto in the "Security Council" of the "United
Nations" Organization
                                                    14 October 2006
                                          {HRI note 20061014-V1.2.1}

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpamG7Pv6tU
I apologize in advance... But it is the funniest thing ever... (I think
it is chess related).

In the fifth game of the Lasker-Capablanca World Championship match
(1921), the same position[1] occurs after Black's 34th, 36th and 38th
moves but the draw was not claimed and Black went on to lose.  Does
anyone know why?

In just the last day since I banned Rob Mitchell from posting to the
FIDE-chess Yahoo group, a new entity muskraattt@yahoo.com has joined
and quit this group 7 times!!!!
It seems likely that this person is the same person as Rob Mitchell.

Sam Sloan wrote in a Fide newsgroup of which he is moderator that he is to
ban Rob Mitchell from posting in it - this follows challenges to Sloans
truth about the porn at his site. I think everyone should read my own
response in that group. //Phil Innes

http://wwwscala.blogspot.com/2007/04/mikhail-botvinnik-jose-raul-capablanca.html
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Success manual will give you the tools you need to completely dominate
nearly every game.
The Right Way To Develop Your Pieces From The Very Start Of Each  Game
Specific Strategies For Playing Both Black & White Pieces...And How To

Understand it, use it, get out of trouble, stay out of trouble:
The First Law of Human Rights
                                                        1 June 2006
                                               {HRI 20060601-V2.2.2}

These crosstables seems very hard to find ,where to get them ?
                                              Winner(s)
Dallas 1942  US Open         H. Steiner + Yanofsky
Syracuse 1943  US Open   Horowitz

Also called the Niggemann.
Someone has asked me if these paper products are still commercially
available - and I can't find any other source for him than to refer him to
one I found on e-bay.

Of all the recorded chess games, what is the most ambitious pawn
anyone is aware of? For instance, is there a game in the books where
the b pawn made 6 captures and promoted on h8? Or maybe it didn't
promote, but simply captured far more than the typical amount of