Chess Forum / General Topics / October 2007

                    CHESS LIES
BOBBY FISCHER: "I have nothing to do with them...I would appreciate it
if all my fans canceled their subscriptions to their horrible magazine
Chess Life. I call it Chess Lies and withdrew from the membership of

Indian Grandmaster Koneru Humpy showed  some great  chess  in recently
conduced European Club Cup 2007. She played for the team Cercle
d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo and scored an amazing  5.5/6 with a rating
performance of 2800! ,which of course was good enough for her team to

[quote="rfeditor"]Since I already proved it with specific citations in
post #75595 , and since it would be impermissible to accuse you of
deliberately making false statements, I can only conclude that you
have, shall we say, an impaired reality test. I suppose that means you

Paul Truong, who has not been heard from almost since I filed my
lawsuit against him on October 2, 2007, has posted today on
chessdiscussion.com
chessdiscussion.com is a safe medium for Truong because it is owned by

I would like some opinions on this chess variant: Birds and Ninjas
http://chess.computerwebservices.net/birds.php
It uses the flying bomber piece for the game Flying Bombers Grand Ches
also found on that site:

GM LARRY EVANS' NEXT BOOK....
"The Crazy World Of Chess" (296 pages) will be published this August.
It can be pre-ordered from Amazon for $9.95.
I have just seen the proofs and the book is a humdinger.

Thank you, Dr. Spinrad, for a fascinating article. You mention a story
involving a lawyer, a piece of candy, and an off-hand remark by
Morphy. I have never heard this story - would you mind providing some
details?

(d) Waiver of Service; Duty to Save Costs of Service; Request to
Waive.
(1) A defendant who waives service of a summons does not thereby waive
any objection to the venue or to the jurisdiction of the court over

by Brian Mottershead on Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:16 am #76279
What Sam Sloan says is basically correct. I was asked by Bill Hall to
prepare a report for him and the EB. I did, and I put it up password-
protected on my private web site and sent the seven board members plus

at the German website http://www.schachverband-sachsen.de you
can take part in a poll regarding the chess novel of Stefan Zweig.
The poll is initiated by a young woman interested in literature.
Of course the questions are in German.

Ok, in the ongoing idea suggesting new ideas for multiple reasons, I
am wondering about this one.  I read in Games Magazine that the
Chess960 world championship was decided with a final game of Blitz
Chess960.

I find it amazing when those who are a queen down in the endgame claim
that they are winning when the rest of the world can see that they are
losing.
Remember, during the Invasion of Iraq there was this official Iraq

There is an idea in there perhaps to be a bit more serious.
- Rich

THE HAPPY TALK COMMANDMENT
<Do you have any evidence that Bill Goichberg told the editor not to
publish your name? Evidence would be a statement by Goichberg, a
statement by the editor, or something in writing. No? I thought not.>

Ron Suarez has posted a very good discussion of what has been going on
over at the USCF Forums for the past few weeks. I am reposting it here
to preserve it, as it will likely be deleted from the Forums soon.
Gregory Alexander has already responded with the same sort of rants