Chess Forum / General Topics / April 2008

This headline was around 1990 or so in the NY Times.  Can someone
please argue that having the world champion retaining their title
because the tournament ended on a draw does anything to increase
interest in chess and improve its viability?

Thank you, Dr. Spinrad, for yet another fascinating article.
Regards,
zdrakec

Samuel Lipschutz was born in 1863 in Hungary but emigrated to the USA
in 1880 at the age of seventeen.  His chess career started to blossom
in 1883, as he was chosen to participate in high level chess club
matches, representing New York against Philadelphia ...........

After talking around the subject here a few weeks ago, I thought I'd play a
few KG's at correspondence, so booked up on Kieseritzky and Fischer Defence,
so naturally I got this:-
1.  e4 e5

My son Peter has a new website.
It is a very impressive and surprising website, so please take a look
at it.
http://shopusanetwork.com

I'm currently attempting to study some classic opening, middle, and
end-games as described and depicted in some books I have been
reading.  What I would like to be able to do is setup a game as I see
in a book or article, assume one of the players -- Black or White --

Hullo all:
Has there been any progress at all towards publication of the memoirs
of GM Yuri Averbakh?
Best regards,

Chrisf is 2nd best player at GetClub Chess.
He used to win in just 20-30 Moves earlier.
But now as the GetClub game has been improved he now takes 50-60 Moves
to win the Higher Levels.

The following exchange with Guy Macon is illustrative of why some people
call others liars - a factor very prevalent on newsnet - and a careful
reading of the script shows that there is agreement on two terms, but not
the same understanding of the terms! And there is the fly in ...

Quadibloc wrote:

Vietnam to host World Youth Chess Championship Oct 20-30, 2008
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/reports/2008/04/779550/
I am very interested in this. I would like to visit Vietnam and I am
considering giving chess lessons to my 6-year-old daughter just so

Texas Justice ??
It is known and the sisters have confessed that Papa Polgar used to
beat them to force them to play chess and study chess and it was
living Hell to live in that home where they were not allowed to go out

We are looking for people who have a natural talent for maths to take
part in a Channel 4 documentary.
You don't need a degree or any qualifications at all - just raw
ability.

Please analyze the Best game between Zebediah & Advance Level.
Advance level was ahead of a Rook but later Zebediah took back the
Rook and was able to win the Game in just 23 moves.
Advance is the Highest Level. So it is the Best GetClub Chess can ever

If you want to prevent a war coming from China, then
NEVER, NEVER, NEVER do what Hu Jintao (or Mao Zedong) wants, or makes
others do or say "is true" and "is wanted by the Chinese
'government'."