HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: sloan@cis.uab.edu (Kenneth Sloan)
Subject: Re: question about USCF ratings
Organization: CIS, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:34:05 GMT

In article <1gimknINN2vh@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> linb@ucs.orst.edu (Benjamin Lin) writes:
>What are the lifetime titles and norm points about?  

multiple choice:
a) offer every player the thrill and satisfaction of a "title"
b) help Bill Goichberg remain solvent

>What is the difference between b and B? 

100 points

>is b=1600-1699 and B=1700-1799 ???
>is x=2000-2099 and X=2100-2199 ???
>is m=2200-2299 and M=2300-2399 ???
>is s=2400-2499 and S=2500-2599 ???  for lifetime titles?
>

I think it's best to merely cite the floors, rather than the ranges.

'b' means that you have consistently (or, at least, often) performed
better than a 1600 player.

'B' " " " 1700 ".
'a' " " " 1800 ".

and so on.

>How are norm points earned?

roughly - you recieve points towards the title when you play in a
tournament and:

    *score 2(?) points
    *perform better (by a sliding scale, depending on the length of the
      event) than a player with a specifid rating (b=1600, B=1700, etc.)

You get 2 points towards the norm for a "normal good result", and 5
points when you do so well that you also get 2 points towards the next
norm.  10 points earns the title, and you start again...

Finally, you get a norm when your established rating is 100(?) points above
the norm level (so...if you have a "rating floor" of 1600, then you have
the 'b' title.

The points marked (?) are from memory - if it matters, I'll be happy to
look up the details.


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Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: fgg@gemini.tmc.edu (Frank G. Gomez)
Subject: Re: Fischer time controls on ICS
Organization: NASA GSFC CDP VLBI
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 23:58:34 GMT

In article <BzGzKt.91x@encore.com> epeterso@encore.com (Eric Peterson) writes:
>Frank G. Gomez (fgg@gemini.gsfc.nasa.gov) wrote:
>
>| I thought  once you were below  zero, you lost the game.
>
>I'm not an authority on ICS development, but I'd hedge a guess that the
>reason they went to forcing the flag to be called was to allow users to
>continue playing games they found interesting once an opponent's time
>had run out.  If the user did care about time, [s]he then had a means
>of enforcing the time control.
>
>IMHO, this is probably the best solution.  You can't know whether or not
>you're going to care about the time control until the game is already
>well under way (usually).  Perhaps there should be some kind of command
>to negotiate the [non]enforcement of time controls during the game,
>similar to the way the "abort" or "adjourn" commands work (one player
>offers, the other accepts or declines).  In addition each player could
>have a state variable similar to "legal" which would determine whether
>time control would be strictly enforced or not by default.
>
>Comments?
>
>Eric

I think the requirement that you must call your oppenent's flag to win
on time is a very  good  improvement  to the ICS  server.  I was  only
questioning whether or not the jump from -10 seconds to +2 seconds was
what really  happens with the Fisher time control or not.  Some people
have sent me mail saying that the  "physical"  clock stays  below zero
once  it  goes  below  zero.  I was  just  wondering  whether  the ICS
implementation  of the  clock is a truly  faithful  one.  It would  at
least  prevent  the unjust  outcome of the game I saw (the  person who
went below first called the other  player's flag later on; if the time
stayed  below zero, then at that point both flags would have been down
-- then both times being  negative  should be recognized as a draw, as
in real chess).

But I  definitely  agree that  enabling  people to finish  interesting
games is a good thing. 

Frank
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From: broglia@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (marco broglia)
Subject: Test of GnuChess 4.0
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:01:35 GMT


I've disturbed 2 times Stuart Cracraft for this question, but I think
that he is very busy or not present beacause I've no reply from him.

The position in file test-mchess in gnu distribution (gnuchess 4.0)
is wrong. The rows 2, 3, 4 and 5 are corrupted. Can anyone help me to
reconstruct the position ?

Thanks.

Marco.

P.S. Please send me mail to broglia@mars.usr.dsi.unimi.it if possible, I
     read mail more frequently in that site.

//
// The road goes ever on and on - Bilbo Baggins
//
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: Peter_Stockhausen@mindlink.bc.ca (Peter Stockhausen)
Subject: Re: US Championship Round 8 GAMES
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 21:07:32 GMT

Your efforts of making the games available is much appreciated.
Peter
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From: tbont@ep.ieee.org (Thomas Bontrager)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Chess Psychology
Date: 16 Dec 92 17:17:51 GMT
Organization: IEEE, New York, NY



>	 I should follow the proper path to achieve mental optimality, 
>within the game of chess.

You fit into the chess world just fine.
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Fischer indicted...
From: chris@kasey.umkc.edu (Christopher Mitchell)
Date: 16 Dec 1992 14:25:40 GMT
Reply-To: chris@kasey.umkc.edu (Christopher Mitchell)
Distribution: world
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Well...it looks like the U.S. finally indicted Fischer on violating the trade
ban with Yugoslavia.  I heard on the radio that the maximum sentence he could
get would be 10 years in prison and/or a $250,000 fine.  Though I don't think
prison is a place for a man like Bobby Fischer, I'd reckon he's got $250,000
to spare.  :)

Chris



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From: ov@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Olaf Vancura)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Harvard Square Speed...
Date: 16 Dec 92 18:38:49 GMT
Organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA,  USA

In article <1giuegINNhc@agate.berkeley.edu> mytelka@codon1 (Daniel Mytelka;612 Barker;x2-5110) writes:
>
>That would be in 1983. I was visiting Boston, and played a game against a
>master who played blitz against all comers in Harvard Square for $1 a game,
>giving twice as much time to his opponent. I lost, but the next guy beat
>him. Turned out to be Short, pretty much an unknown at the time who had
>just won the British championship, and was in this country to play the
>US champion.
>
>DSM

As a matter of fact this master is still in Harvard Square today!  He
still takes all comers at 10 mins. to 5 mins.  The ante is now $2 per game,
you know inflation and all.  I can't remember his name, but he tells me he 
is in the 2300's. I haven't seen him since the winter season, though...

Olaf
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: simonich@croatia.eng.hou.compaq.com (Chris Simonich)
Subject: Re: This has gone far enough! Stop avoiding the issues!
Organization: Compaq Computer Corp.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:03:39 GMT

In article <1992Dec12.140927.459@uoft02.utoledo.edu> dweddin@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
>
>can i possibly make it any clearer????????????
>

Yes, you might try using just a few more question marks.

Come on, you people surely MUST have something more to
do in life than continue this tiresome argument day
after day....well, I take that back.  Maybe not....
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From: Bruce_Harper@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Harper)
Subject: Re: FISCHER-SPASSKY II BOOKS
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 21:41:36 GMT

The Inside Chess book of the match is called "No Regrets" (I believe), and
has detailed notes of each game by Seirawan (and some comments by Suttles),
as well as a number of interesting interviews with all sorts of players,
including Botvinnik, on the match and how Fischer is playing.

I proofed it about two weeks ago, and I think it will be available in about
another three or four weeks.
From: pals@ipact.com
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Harvard Square Speed...
Date: 17 Dec 92 12:31:56 CDT
Organization: IPACT, Valparaiso IN

In article <1992Dec16.183849.19489@head-cfa.harvard.edu>, 
ov@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Olaf Vancura) writes:
> 
> As a matter of fact this master is still in Harvard Square today!  He
> still takes all comers at 10 mins. to 5 mins.  The ante is now $2 per game,
> you know inflation and all.  I can't remember his name, but he tells me he 
> is in the 2300's. I haven't seen him since the winter season, though...
> 

I've seen and chatted with this guy on several occasions when I was out at 
MIT for summer classes.  His claimed rating seems about right.  Another 
thing I noticed (at least when I was there) is that the other players on 
the Square seemed very unfriendly - as if they regarded all strangers with 
contempt. 

-- 
Randy Pals                |pals@ipact.com
IPACT, Inc.               |
From: oliveira@jif.berkeley.edu (Jorge-Nuno Oliveira Silva)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Pardon Fischer !?
Date: 17 Dec 1992 20:17:25 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department.
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Originator: oliveira@jif.berkeley.edu


 gak@wrs.com (Richard Stueven):


>In article 63374@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU, gordons@CS.ColoState.EDU (vahl scott gordon) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec16.011130.26210@penet.fi> an1595@anon.penet.fi writes:
>>>
>>>Should U.S. chessplayers
>>>lobby outgoing President Bush
>>>for an executive pardon???
>>
>>YES.  But judging by the tone of most of the postings I see on this
>>      newsgroup, I'd guess that I'm decidedly in the minority.

>Add one more to that minority.

Add another!

>Not only should Fischer be pardoned, the International Emergency
>Economic Powers Act should be repealed as an unwarranted restriction on
>free trade, freedom of speech, and freedom of association.

>Having said that, I hope we all realize that any lobbying efforts have
>a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding.

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>	If so, they were the product of whiskey, which addles the brain less
>	than cartoon creatures and menus and buttons that send messages to
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>	Hell You Schnook?" - Mike Royko



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From: palane@iastate.edu (Paul A. Lane)
Subject: Re: The Serbs are free to imprison or kill Fischer
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 22:01:08 GMT

In <1992Dec18.191801.7928@midway.uchicago.edu> greg@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Greg Kuperberg) writes:

>Obligatory chess question:  On ICS, if your flag is called but your
>opponent has insufficient material to win, you draw.  This overlooks
>theoretically possible positions in which both sides have pawns (plus
>maybe even a bishop) but neither side can win.

Yes, but this is also true of over-the-board chess. One can lose a
dead drawn position on time. Let's assume that the moment your flag
falls, you get one and only one second to make each of your moves.
My guess is that sooner or later you'd make a fatal error.

However, if there is not enough material on the board for you to be
mated, it wouldn't matter how many errors you make.

Paul


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From: jensen@baloo.ee.byu.edu (Curtis Jensen)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: 3D Chess Set

Could someone put the rules for 3D chess on valkyries or tell me where
it is out there?

Thanks.
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: mzabel@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mark A Zabel)
Subject: Re: Another Short game (was Nigel Short)
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:17:26 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.144246.26903@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> J.Theodore.Schuerzing
er@dartmouth.edu (J. Theodore Schuerzinger) writes:
>If Nigel Short should beat Timman, and then go on to beat Garry
>Kasparov (admittedly very unlikely), it is my opinion that he would
>lose the title back to Kasparov in 1996.  Would this make him a
>champion for the "Short-term"?  :-)

Actually, there is a story I read somewhere (surely
apocryphal) that Kasparov was asked, "Who do you think
will win Short-Timman, and how do you think your match
with the winner of that match will go?"
His answer was, "Short and short!"

Here's a previous Short-Timman encounter from perhaps Short's
worst tournament performance at top GM level.  I'm putting my
money on Short to win the upcoming match, but this is not the
game that convinced me!

White: Timman
Black: Short
SWIFT, 1987

1.d4 e6 2.c4 f5 3.g3 Nf6 4.Bg2 d5 5.Nf3 c6 6.0-0 Bd6
7.b3 Qe7 8.Ne5 0-0 9.Bb2 Bd7 10.Qc1 Be8 11.Ba3 Nbd7
12.Nd3 Bf7 13.Bxd6 Qxd6 14.Qa3 Qxa3 15.Nxa3 Rfe8
16.f4 a5 17.Rfc1 Kf8 18.Nb1 h6 19.Nc3 Ke7 20.Ne5 g5
21.Bh3 Rec8 22.e3 Bh5 23.Rc2 gxf4 24.Nxd7 Nxd7
25.gxf4 Rg8+ 26.Kf1 Raf8 27.Rb1 Bf3 28.cxd5 exd5
29.Kf2 Bg4 30.Bf1 Kd6 31.b4 axb4 32.Rxb4 Rb8 33.a4 Nf6
34.h3 Bh5 35.a5 Bf7 36.Rcb2 Kc7 37.Bd3 Be6 38.Na4 Nd7
39.Nc5 Nxc5 40.dxc5 Bd7 41.Rb6 Be6 42.Rb1 Bd7
43.Bc2 Be6 44.R6b2 Bd7 45.Ke2 d4 46.a6 dxe3 47.a7 (1-0)

What is Short using to defend 1.d4 these days?  I know
he played a Budapest(?!?!?!) against Karpov, but lost
horribly.  I can't remember any other Karpov White
games.

-Mark

p.s.  IMHO the loser of Fischer-Spassky II was ... Nigel Short.
      Hopefully, I'll be proven wrong.
From: dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: A warrant issued for Bobby Fischer's arrest.
Date: 17 Dec 92 10:17:16 EST
Distribution: rec
Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services

In article <1992Dec17.030258.2328@panix.com>, rryan@panix.com (Rob Ryan) writes:
> In <DUBACH1.92Dec15181037@husc10.harvard.edu> dubach1@husc10.harvard.edu (joev dubach) writes:
> 
>>Just saw it on the news.  Now, to the question, "If the UN prohibited 
>>going to New York, would you ignore them?"  Answer: not if they could
>>get the U.S. to throw me in jail.
> 
> It wasn't so much that the U.N. prohibited it, but that there was a
> Presidential order explicitly prohibiting U.S. citizens from doing so.
> The U.S. made their position clear before the match.  And so did Fischer.
> No real surprises here.  Personally, I don't agree with Fischer playing
> in Yugoslavia and I wouldn't be too disappointed to see him punished for
> it (though I'm not sure if it merits 10 years in prison).
> 
> The NY Times had a funny article today (12/16), though.  They had an
> "expert" claim that Bobby Fischer is a peculiar person to prosecute
> and that there are arms merchants and other violators that would be
> better targets for prosecution.  Perhaps there are more villianous
> (sp?) individuals out there, but given how flagrant Fischer was, I
> was surprised to see that this expert didn't understand the motivation
> behind the indictment.
> 
> -- 
>  Rob Ryan
>     rryan@panix.com

Sure, he publicly spat on the President's alleged authority.
 
Looks like its not just South America that has political prisoners...
 
You know, its funny. The Easter Bloc has granted freedom to its people,
and the U.S. wants to dictate where you can go and what you can do
no matter WHERE you are.

And I always thought Russia was the bad guys...

DMC
From: ekw@world.std.com (Elliott C Winslow)
Subject: Re: US Championship Round 11 XTABLE
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:44:02 GMT

                        1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
1   Sherzer,Alex        x = = . . . = 1 0 . 1 = 1 1 1 1   8
2   Gulko,Boris         = x 1 . = 1 . = 0 = 1 1 . = . 1   7.5
3   Wolff,Patrick       = 0 x 0 = = = . . . 1 . 1 1 1 1   7
4   Gurevich,Ilya       . . 1 x . = = = 0 1 0 1 1 . = 1   7
5   Seirawan,Yasser     . = = . x 1 = = 1 = = = . . = 1   6.5
6   Fedorowicz,John     . 0 = = 0 x = . . . 1 = = 1 1 1   6.5
7   Dzindzichashvili,R  = . = = = = x . 1 0 . . = = = 1   6
8   Yermolinsky,Alex    0 = . = = . . x 1 1 1 = = 0 = .   6
9   Gurevich,Dmitry     1 1 . 1 0 . 0 0 x . 0 1 = 1 = .   6
10  Men,Boris           . = . 0 = . 1 0 . x 1 0 = 0 = 1   5
11  Browne,Walter       0 0 . 1 = 0 . 0 1 0 x = 1 = . .   4.5
12  Benjamin,Joel       = 0 0 0 = = . = 0 1 = x . 1 . .   4.5
13  Rachels,Stuart      0 . 0 0 . = = = = = 0 . x . 1 1   4.5
14  Ivanov,Alexander    0 = 0 . . 0 = 1 0 1 = 0 . x . 1   4.5
15  Ivanov,Igor         0 . 0 = = 0 = = = = . . 0 . x 1   4
16  Shirazi,Kamran      0 0 0 0 0 0 0 . . 0 . . 0 0 0 x   0

Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: ceblair@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Charles Blair)
Subject: Re: Shirazi
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 23:14:35 GMT

   I heard that Shirazi at one time made a living playing five-minute
chess at $100 a game.  Also, some combinations of his have been published.
From: J.Theodore.Schuerzinger@dartmouth.edu (J. Theodore Schuerzinger)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Many games together
Date: 16 Dec 92 16:42:49 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
X-Posted-From: InterNews1.0b1@newshost.dartmouth.edu

I would be willing to bet a bundle on the fact that Karpov and Kasparov
have played more serious games against each other than any pair of GM's
in history (160+ and counting).  But what pair of GM's would be in
second?  I have a few ideas, but I'm not certain?  Anybody out there
know the answer?

Karpov-Korchnoi -- 74 match games plus a few tournament games.
Macdonnell-Labourdonnais -- ??
Botvinnik-Smyslov -- three matches, various games in the 50s.

--Ted Schuerzinger
email: .zed@Dartmouth.EDU
"I should have known it would be bad vodka when all the label said was
'Russian Vodka'."
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin)
Subject: Re: Fischer Indicted
Organization: Telebit Corporation; Sunnyvale, CA, USA
	<1992Dec16.175926.23636@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
	<palane.724545223@pv7b88.vincent.iastate.edu>
Date: 16 Dec 92 19:27:24

    Not to mention the legal/moral dilemmas of those writing/buying FSII books.

Are these dilemmas worse than those of writing/buying WW2 books?
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: ekw@world.std.com (Elliott C Winslow)
Subject: Missing US Championship Game
Summary: Fedorowicz-A.Ivanov 
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 07:21:51 GMT

Fedorowicz,J-Ivanov,A
US ch Durango(08) 1992
1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 b6 3.g3 c5 4.Bg2 Bb7 5.O-O g6 6.e3 Bg7 7.d4 O-O 8.Nc3 Ne4
9.Ne2 cxd4 10.exd4 d5 11.cxd5 Nf6 12.Bg5 Nxd5 13.Qd2 Nc6 14.Bh6 e6 15.Rfe1
Rc8 16.Rac1 Qd6 17.Bxg7 Kxg7 18.h4 Na5 19.Ne5 Nf6 20.Bxb7 Nxb7 21.Nf4 Rxc1
22.Rxc1 Rd8 23.Rd1 Nc5 24.h5 Nce4 25.Qe3 Rc8 26.h6+ Kf8 27.Ne2 Qb4 28.Rc1
Rxc1+ 29.Qxc1 Qd2 30.Qxd2 Nxd2 31.f3 Nd5 32.Kf2 f6 33.Ke1 fxe5 34.Kxd2
exd4 35.Nxd4 Kf7 36.Nc6 a6 37.Kd3 g5 38.Ne5+ Kf6 39.Kd4 Ne7 40.g4 b5
41.Nd7+ Kg6 42.Nb8 Kxh6 43.Nxa6 Nc6+ 44.Ke4 Kg6 45.Nc7 b4 46.Nxe6 Kf6
47.Nd4 Ne5 48.b3 Nd7 49.Nc6 Nc5+ 50.Kd4 1-0
 
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From: mphelps@amama.enet.dec.com (Matthew W. L. Phelps)
Subject: Re: Harvard Square Speed...
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 20:19:58 GMT


In article <1992Dec16.183849.19489@head-cfa.harvard.edu>, ov@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Olaf Vancura) writes...
>In article <1giuegINNhc@agate.berkeley.edu> mytelka@codon1 (Daniel Mytelka;612 Barker;x2-5110) writes:
>>
>>That would be in 1983. I was visiting Boston, and played a game against a
>>master who played blitz against all comers in Harvard Square for $1 a game,
>>giving twice as much time to his opponent. I lost, but the next guy beat
>>him. Turned out to be Short, pretty much an unknown at the time who had
>>just won the British championship, and was in this country to play the
>>US champion.
>>
>>DSM
> 
>As a matter of fact this master is still in Harvard Square today!  He
>still takes all comers at 10 mins. to 5 mins.  The ante is now $2 per game,
>you know inflation and all.  I can't remember his name, but he tells me he 
>is in the 2300's. I haven't seen him since the winter season, though...
> 
>Olaf

His name is Murray Turnbull. Last I talked with him (a few months ago) he's not
playing tournament chess anymore, just Harvard Square speed. His highest rating
(a few years ago) was over 2400 USCF.


	Matthew W. L. Phelps		mphelps@amama.enet.dec.com
	Digital Equipment Corp.		"My stuff, not DEC's"

	Transaction Processing Systems Engineering, Littleton, MA, USA
From: lumme@sara.cc.utu.fi (Mikael Lumme)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: E-mail etiquette
Date: 15 Dec 92 07:32:52 GMT
Organization: University of Turku, Finland

Teri A Meyers <tasst2+@pitt.edu> writes: 
> For those of you who play postal or E-mail chess, I have a question on 
> etiquette for you.
[stuff deleted]                                         
> I made a very 
> obvious typo.  I had a rook on g8, which I intended to exchange for his
> rook on d8.  Unfortunately, instead of playing g8d8, I entered g8e8 on
> my computer, hit return, and instantly discovered to my horror that instead
> of exchanging rooks, I had moved it to an unprotected square one square
> short of the intended destination.  The TD, who I contacted immediately, 
> said it was up to my opponent to decide whether to allow me to correct my
> typo or not.
[stuff deleted]
> I would appreciate any comments either directly, or via E-mail.  Thanks,
> Jerry Meyers  (Tasst2@pitt.edu)

What else could the rule be? If correcting typos (of legal moves) were
allowed, then there would be things like "I sent the move from my
office where I had no board", "the move I sent was intended to somebody
else" etc.

The main point here is that typos should be avoided and this can be done
by redundancy, e.g., you write your move both in the header and the
body of the message. Or just write down the move twice. If the two are not
the same then there's no legal move and you can re-send the correct move.

/Mikael
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From: fsmgs@camelot.acf-lab.alaska.edu (Michael Schmahl [Black-Robe Mage])
Subject: Re: + Anagrams
Organization: University of Alaska Computer Network
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:13:00 GMT

Col. G. L. Sicherman writes
> What's an anagram?  Is that like
>
An anagram is a rearrangement of letters.

Like 

William Shakespeare
Has Will a peer?  Mikes!

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From: bhahn@sw.stratus.com (Bill Hahn)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Dershowitz on Fischer
Date: 16 Dec 1992 19:07:44 GMT
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Jeff Ely writes:
> Why Dershowitz was speaking for Bobby was not made clear.  It was never stated
> that he had been hired by Fischer or if he was just giving his opinion for free.  
> From what I know about Dershowitz, I personally find the latter unlikely.

Derschowitz is frequently asked by the media to give his opinion on 
legal situations in the news.  (Admittedly he's not shy about media
exposure.)  Also, I believe he does some pro bono work which he finances
thru the fees he charges for his more notorious cases.  Now back to chess....

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