Chess Forum / General Topics / June 2007

Is Sam Sloan a real person?
Someone mentioned in a post the other day that there are impostors.
What is all this with Susan Polgar from "Sam Sloan"?  I'm interested
in chess news but not beefs between two people.

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Does someone have a definite answer to this question?
Player A and Player B are playing a blitz game for sizeable (at least
- to them) stakes. Player A has the piece in his hand to make the
mating move, when Player B calls his tiime down (before he can

Does anyone have an e-mail address for Malcolm Pein?
There are no contact details re the Telegraph and I want to contact
him direct.
Thanks

Does anyone here have a better estimate than the following?
Complete  3 man Nalimov Tablebase.................80 kB (measured)
Complete  3+4 man Nalimov Tablebase...............30 MB (measured)
Complete  3+4+5 man Nalimov Tablebase............7.5 GB (measured)

I started to think about this puzzle but didn't keep the newspaper
(Int'l Herald Tribune, but I assume it's the Evening Standard's puzzle
too). Can anyone find it? Leonard Barden mentions a position played by
Stefan Fazekas, "White (to move) appears doomed..." If anyone does

Great News as the USCF only lost $57,915 this year.
There have been celebrations, dancing in the streets and kazoos
blowing, as it was officially announced yesterday that the USCF only
lost $57,915 this fiscal year, which ended on May 31, 2007.

Brian Lafferty, a well known attorney, was caught having sex with an
11 year old donkey. More news to come on www.samsloan.com.

I have a chess set, its onyx(white) and marble[black](both pieces and
board). The person I bought it from said that I need a table such that
underneath the chessboard a light would shine and illuminate the white
onyx squares and it would look really nice. Can anyone here help me

[quote="DACP"]Pertaining to the SPF - Niro conflict of interest...
The significant part of the issue is that USCF received a legal
opinion pertaining to a contract that Mr. Niro signed with Ms. Polgar
or one of her organizations pertaining to the Olympiad.  When that

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[quote="mnibb"]I don't disregard that fact Bill,  I say let them come
and play the US Open if they want to play the US Open.  Your logic
with respect to this not being a savings for the Denker players is a
lot like the person who goes to a sale and spends 3 times what they

I try not to gloat too much over my occasional chess victories, but I
think I am justifiably proud of my victory over veteran master Jon
Jacobs, who is rated 2264, at the Hotel New Yorker last night. Jon
Jacobs recently organized the forum on computer chess cheating at the

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[quote="George"]I do think that the loss of the AF4C as the US
Championship sponsor has been a big blow to chess.  This is definitely
not something I want to see repeated.[/quote]
Yes. I agree. Susan should stop attacking AF4C and other sponsors. If