Chess Forum / General Topics / September 2007

Where can I play chess on-line? Is it possible to play tournaments, too?

Re: Post 67316
Sent at: Wed Sep 19, 2007 6:21 pm
From: lblair
To: samsloan

It seems to me that Zebediah has established an 800 point
advantage over the "Master" level, having systematically
pushed it downward as his own rating s-l-o-w-l-y rose into
the 1300s.

Maybe I'm just a dirty old man, but I'm wondering whether
Nimzovich was deliberately making sexual references that,
intentionally or not, have gotten lost in the translation to
English.  I wonder whether "the horny passed pawn" might be

This famous video shows Sofia Polgar defeating Korchnoi in a blitz
game and then Korchnoi gets angry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9k5oBgaZGI
The commentators on this video have it all wrong. In first place,

[quote="Brian Mottershead"]Sevan, I moved the Gold and Silver
Affiliate page off the old old website and put it up here, and put a
link to it where you suggested.  Consider this temporary.   I did this
on my own initiative, and other people with more authority than me on

[quote="Brian Lafferty"]I have just had two substantial posts on the
Amigos thread pulled by Rodney.  The first was pulled after I edited
it at the request of Mr. Sawmiller.  On the second, a reply to Joe
Lux, Mr. Applebaum asked me to remove the final line, which I agreed

They will play I0 games and i belive it said a 60 min time control  ??
I need to look at that again.
 Have you heard of Zappa chess program ?
 Do you think Rybka is so powerful that it will not lose ?

Can you link me or explain how to set up a chess interface and chess
engine in simple language?
Looking around, the web Fruit engine seems good. I want to hook it up
to a simple but very user adjustable interface.

Thanks to all for the good advise so far, it's good to hear different
ideas bantered and still keep things civil.
My next question is this:  I've been playing against the computer a
lot,  trying to improve on my game.  Both Chessmaster and Fritz 10 are

MARCUS ROBERTS SECURITY GUARD
<The readers here might be interested to know that when Marcus Roberts
showed up at the USCF Committee meetings in Cherry Hill NJ starting on
August 1, 2007, the USCF hired a private gun-toting security guard to

Gelfand-Anand ends in a draw.Svidler-Kramnik looks like the most
exciting game (potentially) of the others.Kings are on opposite sides
on the board.

[quote="ChessPromotion"]As for me, I tried to hang on to this place as
long as I could. I was hoping and praying that after the election,
some people would grow up and put the best interest of the USCF first.
I was wrong. Therefore, this will be my last post on the USCF forum

Take a look at http://gothicchess.blogspot.com/
It makes it clear that Rob Mitchell is a big time con artist:
"Wire us $30,000 and we'll be there
They called Thursday night. Mike spoke up. No hello, no pleasantries

Whitehat a strong player was beaten by easy level. However nomorechess
was able to win with easy level.
Play Chess at: http://www.getclub.com/Chess.html
That game had bugs when nomorechess won. Now the bugs have been