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From: "REYNOLDS, MARK ANTHONY" <helios!physics.ucla.edu!reynolds@tssi.com>
Subject: Re: Candidate's Matches
Organization: Chessnews list (chessnews-request@tssi.com)
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 00:28:00 GMT



Mark Ginsburg writes:

> Another source for interesting & instructive modern GM games:
>
> Announcing... a new, humorous, and entertaining Chess Magazine:
>
> *****************          CHESS CHOW *********************
>
  [ deleted ]
>
> Reviewers, such as Grandmasters Andy Soltis, and Larry Evans, have written
> very positive things about Chess Chow.
>
  [ deleted ]


I would have to say that I disagree heartily.  IMHO, Chess Chow is the
most worthless piece of journalism I have ever read.  No flames, this
is simply my opinion.

I purchased the December - January issue based on Hanon Russell's
review which stated that they had improved tremendously in the first
year, and that it was now a pretty decent magazine.  Boy, was I 
disappointed.  I found a magazine that portrayed the authors as
simply a bunch of immature schoolboys (whether they actually
are I don't know) with nothing more interesting to report than
what a horrible time they had in Bermuda, and how "cold and
boring" Hastings was.  I was hoping for some intelligent, biting
satire on the chess world, and found nothing but a group of
chess players writing about how cool they are, and how uncool
everyone else is.

Not my idea of an interesting magazine, and certainly not one that
I would spend $5 for.  Don't waste your money.

Anthony Reynolds

reynolds@physics.ucla.edu

Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: jlwestm@ptsfa.PacBell.COM (Jeff Westman)
Subject: Re: Sticking to your principles
Reply-To: jlwestm@PacBell.COM (Jeff Westman)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 14:35:58 GMT

In article <01GIT7W5C3IO8X2TXZ@canal.crc.uno.edu> DCBCS@CANAL.CRC.UNO.EDU (Dennis Baker) writes:
>Uh oh.  I could get into trouble here, not to mention chancing that this
>will all be off-topic.  But here goes...
>
>On 13 Apr 92 12:29:04 GMT, azjohn@eagle.larc.nasa.gov
>(John Paul Phillips) writes:

                [ stuff deleted about Fischer's church ]

>				Is this a *fact*?

                [ more stuff deleted ]

>Is this a *fact*?

                [ yet more stuff deleted ]


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GENTLEMEN!!

This is not an appropriate topic for this news group.  Please take your
arguments to soc.religion.christian or private email.  Everyone has a
right to believe what they want to believe, if at all.  Your arguments are
wasting space!
-- 
Jeff
From: drchip@cup.portal.com (MYRON A LIEBERMAN)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Deafness (was: Re: Women and chess)
Date: 5 Apr 92 14:27:42 GMT
  <1992Mar31.181229.20355@sunb10.cs.uiuc.edu>
  <1992Apr1.082042.4554@cv.ruu.nl>
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

It was indeed Petrosian and not Korchnoi whose hearing was impaired. As a
matter of fact Petrosian routinely avoided distraction during games by
turning off his hearing aid.
From: feelders@kub.nl (Ad Feelders)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Goldman analysis
Date: 8 Apr 92 07:46:50 GMT
Organization: KUB, The Netherlands

After the moves 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Bc4 Ngf6 6.Qf3
Dennis Baker suggested the move 6...g6 for black. I think white should
be able to keep a small advantage after 7.Qb3, since this forces black
to play 7...e6 (7...Nd5? 8.Bxd5 Qa5+ 9.Nc3). Now black has locked his
own bishop in and furthermore the pawn-structure with e6 and g6
doesn't look very promising for black. Anybody care to comment on this
assessment ?

-- 
Ad Feelders
E-mail: feelders@kub.nl
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: drchip@cup.portal.com (MYRON A LIEBERMAN)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Playing with the deaf (was Re: Re whether Korchnoi is deaf)
Date: 9 Apr 92 04:38:21 GMT
  <1992Apr8.175531.16024@visus.com>
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

I have been host to GM Korchnoi as late as 1981 and at least up to that
time there was no communication difficulty or other evidence of even
partial deafness, although I can't speak to what may have evolved after
that time. As to the question of special rules for the handicapped there
is a summary of the rules as applicable to the blind in the "Official
Rules of Chess".
From: lb2e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Louis Blair)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Re whether Korchnoi is deaf
Date: 9 Apr 92 22:12:56 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Dennis Baker writes:
>I could not find this in my original English copy. Page 8 is part
>of the introduction, where there are various comments about
>ill health but none about deafness.

It's on page six in the English edition.

>I did find, however, a comment in *game* 8 of the *1981* book
>about the deafness of the arbiter for the match, Paul Klein. Maybe
>there is an error in the translation - either getting a name wrong
>(maybe a reference to Petrosian in the Candidates matches) or
>mistranslating "defection" which occurs many times in the
>introductions.

No, that is definitely not the problem.  The quote in the English
edition of the book is as I posted it.  Here it is again:  "While
playing chess Korchnoi ... lives in a world of his own
construction.  His absolute concentration is aided by
deafness which helps him to exclude the external world
from his inner consciousness."  Mind you, I am also inclined
to think that there is some sort of mistake here, but that IS
what Keene's book says.  As I said before, perhaps Keene
was writing metaphorically.  It wouldn't be the only time
that Keene goofed something up.
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: helios!intercal.com!hwr@tssi.com (Hanon W. Russell)
Subject: Samuel Reshevsky 1911-1992
Organization: Chessnews list (chessnews-request@tssi.com)
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 20:48:42 GMT



It is with a sense of profound sadness and loss that we regret to
report that on Saturday evening April 4, 1992 one of the greatest
American Grandmasters ever, Samuel Reshevsky, passed away. He died
after suffering a massive heart attack while attending services
in synagogue. He was eighty years old.

HWR
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Anyone interested in Shogi?
From: carlson@ucunix.san.uc.edu (David Carlson)
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 14:27:54 GMT
Organization: University of Cincinnati

Hi there,

If anyone would like to discuss/play this intriguing game, please e-mail
me.

For those that don't know, Shogi is a sibling game to Chess, that
developed from the same original Indian game... The European derivation
is Chess, while the Asian derivation is Shogi.  It is very popular in
Japan, which is where I picked it up.  I've only seen one book in
English on it, though, and have had a hard time finding anyone to play
against in the U.S.... So, let me know if you're interested!

                             dc

BTW, I would really like to find a Shogi program for IBM compatible
computers...  I saw one once at a store, but it sold before I could get
back, and they never got any more :(  They said they could order it if I
knew the name, but I've forgotten it. If anyone knows about a program
like this--PLEASE tell me!

YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
David Carlson             
EMAIL:carlson@ucunix.san.uc.edu
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Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: helios!intercal.com!hwr@tssi.com (Hanon W. Russell)
Subject: New In Chess
Organization: Chessnews list (chessnews-request@tssi.com)
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1992 19:36:30 GMT


                           NEW IN CHESS
                           No. 2, 1992

The featured tournament and cover story in the latest issue of 
the excellent Dutch magazine "New In Chess" is the 54th 
Hoogovens Tournament, Wijk aan Zee. Grandmasters Salov and 
Gelfand shared first place, 8.5-4.5, ahead of Huebner and 
Korchnoy, who shared third/fourth places, one point behind. The 
coverage is up to its usual top-notch standards - thorough, 
insightful, with all the games many of them annotated by the 
players.

Taking nothing away from this tournament report, the equally 
fine one on Hastings and the interview of Loek van Wely, 
Holland's young rising star, the item which we regarded as the 
most significant in this issue was the interview of Mikhail 
Botvinnik. Focusing on the impact of chess literature on the 
development on most players, as well as the most influential 
books from his own point of view, the interview is most 
revealing. Conducted during the last cycle of the Candidates 
Matches in Brussels, Botvinnik gives unqualified and revealing 
opinions - It is fascinating! A few excerpts:

    NIC: Which books would you select if you were to recommend 
    five chess books to a young and talented of let's say 
    sixteen years old?

    Botvinnik: A chess player cannot play chess if he hasn't 
    read Capablanca's textbook. Furthermore I think, although 
    this may not sound modest, that the first three books of my 
    collected games are required reading. [Of the 380 games 
    presented therein, the first 190 are available already to 
    members of the USA Today Sports Center with no surcharges - 
    HWR] Then, Alekhine's "Best Games." As for the endgame, I 
    would recommend grandmaster Fine's book "Basic Chess 
    Endings" ... They should study Fischer's games ... I looked 
    at the games [Kasparov] played for the [1990] world 
    championship. Without great pleasure. The games of the 
    quarter finals here [in Brussels] are more interesting."

Readers may already be familiar with the surprising result in 
the 1991 Soviet Championship, the last such championship with 
that title. Two virtual unknowns, IM Elmar Magerramov and 
untitled Artashes Minasian tied for first and second places 
ahead of GM Vladimir Epishin. It was with some surprise  that we 
encountered a lengthy, detailed tournament report on this 
championship. Actually, on second thought, perhaps we should not 
have been so surprised. Certainly, Soviet Championships had 
always been quite newsworthy, but somehow it did not seem that 
the last of the series had enough substance for such in depth 
coverage. We were wrong; this is the last major article in this 
issue and it adds a nice finishing touch to another great number 
of "New In Chess".

Subscription information: New In Chess, 2423 Noble Station, 
Bridgeport, CT 06608. 1-yr: $58

Copyright 1992 Hanon W. Russell
All Rights Reserved


Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: Dennis Baker <helios!canal.crc.uno.edu!DCBCS@tssi.com>
Subject: The New, Sanitized Reshevsky!
Organization: Chessnews list (chessnews-request@tssi.com)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 04:54:00 GMT


On 14 Apr 92 20:58:45 GMT, hau4@quads.uchicago.edu (sven  hauptfeld) writes:
Subject: RE: More Reshevsky

>In article <01GIU7I57V808X45M0@canal.crc.uno.edu> Dennis Baker <helios!canal.crc.uno.edu!DCBCS@tssi.com> writes:
>>Here's some of what I've been getting about Reshevsky via private
>>e-mail:
>>
>>  o The biggest cheater in the 20th century.
>>
>>  o Has done everything illegal and nasty under the sun.
>>
>>  [...]
>
>Would you guys STOP this vulgar discussion. Has anybody ever taught you 
>the principle of decency: DE MORTUO NIHIL NISI BENE (about the dead (say)
>nothing unless it is good)?

"Vulgar discussion?"  You weren't jumping up and down and pounding on the table
when you wrote this, huh Sven? <g>

What about "You gotta' take the good with the bad?"  Shucks, you can never find
an "expression hierarchy" list when you need one :)

BTW, I did include a particularly good and well-written story about Reshevsky.
Is there some reason you chose to concentrate on the bad stuff?  Or is that
the part you want bleached?  What kind of sanitized version of Reshevsky are
you interested in?  Perhaps we could construct one to fit the image you desire?

Dennis Baker
<DCBCS@uno.edu>

From: jqtaylor@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (John Quill Taylor)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 16:27:59 GMT
Subject: Endgame Solution Forgotten
Organization: Hewlett Packard - Boise, ID
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess

I lost the solution to this; does anyone recall it? - jqtaylor -

 White: Kc1, Qd1, Rf1, Be3, Bd5, a3, b2, c2, e5, g5

 Black: Kg7, Qc4, Rb8, Bc8, Be7, Na5, Nd7, a6, b7, g6

        Black to move and win!
From: wp01jst1@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (John Tomas)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: The Game of the Century
Date: 13 Apr 92 17:28:55 GMT


Concerning Mike Perkins' query on the Ruy Lopez line 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6
3 Bb5 a6 4 Ba4 Nf6 5 0-0 Be7 6 Re1 b5 7 Bb3 0-0 8 c3 d6 9 d4 Bg4 10 Re1

The rook on e3 makes it difficult for White to develop his pieces 
normally and can be chased with gain of time for Black.  10 ... Na5
occurs to me immediately 11 Bc2 Nc4 12 Re1.  Also Black might try Nd7
at some point.  Normal play for this variation (as I recall) is either
Be3 or d5.
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: mmoore%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Michael Moore)
Subject: Re: Xics bug?
Date: 17 Apr 92 10:42:10 MDT
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept., Salt Lake City


	This is something I forgot about.

	In the original release there was a button you pressed to
to reverse which side you were playing.  In the one sitting on
export called something like xics.epi... the needed command button
may have been removed, (I think only quit was left in), in which 
case you're in trouble. :-). 

	-Michael


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From: etcmng@iitmax.iit.edu (Michael N Goldshteyn)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: DRAGON CHESS
Date: 14 Apr 92 18:24:01 GMT
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology


This message is directed to the person who is working on the rules list for
DRAGON CHESS from DRAGON magazine. Could you please mail me a list of the
rules as soon as you are done typing them in. I would love to help you in the
development of this project (dragon chess server and/or program) over the
summer. I have been programming in C for about 6 years professionally now, so
you know I am qualified.

Thanks!

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EMAIL ADDRESS: etcmng@iitvax.iit.edu

"... and what does this little pawn piece do?", said Ruy Lopez as he was 
learning how the pieces moved.

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Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: helios!midway.uchicago.edu!ran9@tssi.com (M.L. Rantala)
Subject: Chess fonts for the Macintosh
Organization: Chessnews list (chessnews-request@tssi.com)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 01:29:49 GMT


For further information on Mac chess fonts, including True Type fonts being
developed by Eric Schiller and others, contact Hal Bogner at Chess Labs:
        direwolf@earth.gps.caltech.edu.

M.L. Rantala
University of Chicago
From: rdubbs@cs.tamu.edu (Roger B. Dubbs III)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Chess Clocks
Summary: How do they work, exactly?
Date: 13 Apr 92 02:33:38 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University

I have checked the FAQ and couldn't quite find the following information:

I have a need to time players moves in a wargame.  I need information
on how chess clocks work exactly, so I can decide if one would be better
than, say, two stopwatches.  Specifically, I need to know:

a) What maximum time limits do they generally have?
b) Do the times reset after each move, or can total time per player
   be tracked as well?
c) What direction do the clocks run, forward or back?

On a related note: 
d) Are there absolute time limits imposed?
e) Is there any standard penalty for going over a time limit?

Finally: 
f) Are there any programs available which let you play Kriegspiel?

(Kriegspiel is a double-blind variant of chess, where each player knows 
where his own pieces are and not the other players.)


Thank you for your attention,
Roger Dubbs
rdubbs@cs.tamu.edu
From: g0m0078@tamsun.tamu.edu (Giri)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Shortest games...
Date: 12 Apr 92 05:22:04 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station

In article <MdtYlTS00Voi44CV0U@andrew.cmu.edu> lb2e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Louis Blair) writes:
>>As far as I know, the shortest game played between IM's is 4
>>moves (Gibaud vs Lazard).
>
>The general opinion amongst chess historians these days is
>that this game never really happened.  For details, see the
>Oxford Companion to Chess or the Soltis book of chess lists.
>(Or pester me.  Maybe I will post them if there is interest.)
>

Possibly true! BUT due to the responses I got requesting
me to post all the FOur games I citied in the above 
article, I decided to look up the notebook in which I have these
articles. And voila I found the source

The book is "1000 short games in Chess ". Th copy in the 
library here is charged presently and I will look it up
and post the details.


>>The shortest game involving a GM is 7 moves between Fine
>>and Borochowe. This game is particularly interesting because
>>the white moves ONLY the pawns and the black moves ONLY
>>the Knights.
>
>I think I remember that there is doubt about this game, too,
>but I am much less certain here and my memory might be
>playing tricks on me.  I might be thinking of the wrong
>game.  I'll try to check up on this, but it may take me a day
>or two.

 I will check up on this too. But I will post the games soooner
than that since I feel that The above games are good irrespective
of whether it happened or not between GM's.







Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: gracedc@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Damon C. Grace)
Subject: NYC to Albany area tournament search
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 06:24:54 GMT


	I'm looking for any chess tournaments in the area of
Poughkeepsie, NY which is halfway inbetween NYC and Albany.
I've played chess all my life and have never had a chance to play in
a tournament. Problem now is I am graduating college and won't have
access to the net in a few short weeks.
	I would really appreciate it if someone/people could send me
info either on upcoming tournaments or who I could talk to about attending
one near me without getting a subscription to a chess magazine.
I leave school the third week of May.
	Thanks in advance!!!

					Damon
					gracedc@craft.camp.clarkson.edu
From: jriechel@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU
Subject: Test message
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Date: 12 Apr 92 10:09:03 GMT
From: drchip@cup.portal.com (MYRON A LIEBERMAN)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Sticking to your principles
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 23:15:48 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

You said it best. He is to be admired for his great chess career. That being
the case there is no purpose to be served by dredging up comments regarding
the negative aspects of his personality. Sure, they were there, but that is
NOT what is memorable about Sam Reshevsky. Please honor his memory and
remember and discuss his contributions. Not only does negative commentary
vilify his overall memory but it serves no useful function that I can see.
From: jb118@prism.gatech.EDU (Jeffrey N. Burch)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Sticking to your principles
Date: 13 Apr 92 00:35:25 GMT
Organization: Georgia Tech Research Institute -- EOL

In article <01GIPQVJT3YO8X2FXU@canal.crc.uno.edu> DCBCS@CANAL.CRC.UNO.EDU (Dennis Baker) writes:
>
>I admire Reshevsky for his great chess career, although I hear his
>personality left a lot to be desired -- now THIS I'd like to hear about.
>Anybody know anything of this "nasty personality" side of Reshevsky?
>Forgive me if I've been misinformed.
>
>Dennis Baker

I had an experience which involved Reshevsky, although I don't know
whether to be more angry at him or at GM Arthur Bisguier.

In the 1986 U.S. Open at Somerset, N. J., I was an assistance TD, 
working for TDs Carol Jarecki and Glen Petersen.  During one of the later
rounds, a pairing error was made involving Reshevsky, so Glen had me
ask Reshevsky not to start his game as it was probable that he was going 
to be playing a different opponent than the one on the pairing sheet.

I went up to Reshevsky, identified myself as an assistant TD (I was
wearing a badge or armband of some kind to indicate this, but I wanted
to be certain he knew I was authorized to ask) , and told him that the
TDs were making a change in his pairing and could he please wait (none
of the other games had started, but people were setting up and getting
ready to begin very shortly).

After this I went back to the TD room, and about 5 minutes later, a very
angry Arthur Bisguier stormed into the room and said (these were his 
exact words) "some idiot is running around outside telling people not
to start their games".  I was so stunned by this that my jaw dropped open
and I couldn't for the life of me think of a snappy comeuppance, so I said
nothing.  The TDs were obviously embarrassed about his comments, and 
said that I had only done what they asked of me (I don't know where he
got the crazy idea I had been asking "people" not to start their games.
Reshevshy was the only person I talked to).  Bisguier had seemed to me
like a reasonably nice guy in past encounters, but I was absolutely
livid after hearing him rant.

As I say, I don't know whether to think that Bisguier was an idiot for
jumping to conclusions, or whether he was asked by Reshevsky to come
in and gripe.  But one of them sure made me angry that day!

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Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: perlman@qso.Colorado.EDU (perlman eric)
Subject: Looking for a few clubs:  Baltimore, MD; Columbus, OH
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 17:43:54 GMT

The subject says it all.  I will be doing considerable business
travelling during the last week of May and the first two weeks of June,
to Baltimore and Columbus.  I would like to know the meeting times and
places of any and all chess clubs in the Baltimore and/or Columbus
areas.  Before any of you ask, I'm a long-time USCF member (since 1981),
rated 2070.

Please email all responses to perlman@qso.colorado.edu.  Thanks in
advance,



-- 
"How sad to see/A model of decorum and tranquillity/become like any other sport
A battleground for rival ideologies to slug it out with glee." -Tim Rice,"Chess"
     Eric S. Perlman  <perlman@qso.colorado.edu> or <eric@lyra.Colorado.EDU> 
  Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado, Boulder