Chess Forum / General Topics / August 2008

This is a Typical game where Help Bot has to fight hard to win in 101
moves.
Help Bot was just 2 pawns ahead but in the end It has only 1 pawn left
to win the game.

Ishi Press, publisher of fine go books, is proud to announce the
reprinting of Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry.
The ISBN Number is  0-923891-52-8
The website on Amazon where the book will be advertised is:

There may be an interest here. It is not limited to chess
professionals. It is good anywhere in the world and is very
reasonable.
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I understand that tomorrow an important development will occur in the Susan
Polgar suit against USCF, with a named settlement sum being announced for
cessation of the suit and other specifics relating to USCF actions.
This will no doubt interest those named in it who write here, ...

GetClub was twice improved today still it lost to Jester.
Jester found a Mate in 8 and win the game.
I could not find any wrong move by GetClub but still it lost the game.
Can you spot the wrong moves?

According to the official site there were two underpromotions in the
Memorial Tal tournament. Is that right? Is it a joke? Does it make
sense?
[Event "Tal Memorial"]

Susan Polgar filed her latest lawsuit on November 7, 2008. Although I
have not been served with the summons and complaint, I have found it
posted on the Federal Pacer System, since the case has been removed to
federal court.

I have had enough of paying for Sloan's whores/wives, bastards/brats and
frivilous law suits.
Can some body find who is Pauline E. Braun? She needs to be phoned with
some of the detail about Ismail H. Sloan of which she will not be aware.

I have never heard this anecdote:
I am not like Botvinnik – before his match with Bronstein he made a
list of what results he should make in each game: first game draw,
second game he wins, third game draw, fourth game draw, fifth game he

Yesterday 2 new bugs came that hang the game. Now those bugs have been
removed.
So Players having trouble playing with GetClub let me know it. I will
reset their games.

Just curious. Are there people who attain these titles without having been
some child chess prodigy starting from the womb (or even as a teenager)?
And just to be clear, is the title of IM the same as saying "Master"?

Reports indicate that astronaut Greg Chamitoff is defeating ground
controllers in Houston's Mission Control at chess!

After 3 rounds, Morozevich is in clear first at the 2008 Tal Memorial with a
performance of 3019! With this results, he is closing the gap to the world's
number 1 ranking. According to the LIVE rating, Anand is at 2798 and
Morozevich is at 2796.3! Poor Shirov has lost 3 straight. ...

According to Negyesy and Hegyi (Combinations in Chess, Corvina, 1970),
H. Mueller in "Lerne Kombinieren" (a book that is on my to-buy list)
states that of 8,000 games played at the most significant tournaments
of the first half of the twentieth century 6,562 (82%) were decided by

Do you like opening books? I prefer endgame and GM games collection. I
can't stand those books which are only endless variations. Obviously I
like so much Watson's MCO and Soltis' New Ideas and Variations.