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From: pope@gold.kpc.com (John Pope)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: FISCHER SPASSKY game 1 - comments
Date: 5 Sep 92 00:18:58 GMT
Organization: /nfs/gold/u/home/pope/.organization

A couple notes on the opening:

15.Bg5 h6 16.Bd2

	More usual is 15.a4 c5 16.d5 c4 17.Bg5 h6 18.Be3, but Fischer
	wants the B on d2 in preparation for his new b2-b4 idea.

16...Bg7 17.a4 c5

	A game Kuczynski-Kveinis Warsaw 1989 went 17...ed 18.cd c5 19.d5
	Nb6 20.Qc1 Kh7 21.Ba5 Nfd7 22.h4 with an edge.

18.d5 c4 19.b4!?

	Not only is this a novelty, but the whole idea of playing b2-b4
	with the black pawn on c4 seems to be new (there are tons of games
	where white plays b2-b4 with the BP on c5, though). For better or
	worse Spassky should probably have put the idea to the test with
	19...cb 20.Bb3 Nb6 (or maybe 20...Nc5), since after:

19...Nh7?! 20.Be3 (back here now that the Q-side space has been gained) h5
21.Qd2 Rf8 22.Ra3

	...he got almost zero counterplay.

	
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From: jean-pierre.roy@synapse.isis.org (Jean-Pierre Roy) 
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Fischer-Spasskij game 1 -
Date: 7 Sep 92 22:19:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: SYNAPSE BBS - GATINEAU, QUEBEC - 819-561-4321
Reply-To: jean-pierre.roy@synapse.isis.org (Jean-Pierre Roy) 

RM>From: ralf@cs.uq.oz.au (Ralf Muhlberger)
RM>Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
RM>Subject: Fischer-Spasskij game 1 -- clarification
RM>Message-ID: <10181@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
RM>Date: 6 Sep 92 21:15:28 GMT
RM>Reply-To: ralf@cs.uq.oz.au

RM>The transcrition of game 1 was recently posted here, but
RM>I've had problems trying to play it through. Could someone
RM>please see whether these moves are correct?

RM>>Here are the moves for game 1, which I obtained from Prodigy.
RM>>Fischer had white, Spassky had black.

RM>>1. e4 e5  2. Nf3 Nc6  3. Bb5 a6  4. Ba4 Nf6  5. O-O Be7  6. Re1 b5  7.  Bb3
RM>>O-O  8. c3 d6  9. h3 Nb8  10. d4 Nbd7  11. Nbd2 Bb7  12. Bc2 Re8  13.  Nf1 B
RM>>14, Ng3 g6  15. Bg5 h6  16. Bd2 Bg7  17. a4 c5  18. d5 c4  19. b4 Nh7?!
RM>>20. Be3 h5  21. Qd2 Rf8  22. Ra3 Ndf6  23. Rea1 Qd7  24. R1a2 Rfc8
RM>>25. Qc1 Bf8  26. Qa1 Qe8  27. Nf1 Be7  28. N1d2 Kg7  29. Nb1 Ne4!?
RM>>30. Be4 f5  31. Bc2 Bd5  32. ab5 ab5  33. Ra7 Ra8  34. Nbd2 Ra7  35.  Ra7 Ra
RM>                                               ^^^
RM>What did Spasskij do here? When I replay the game up to move 33, there is
RM>already a rook there. It has not moved yet.

The right move at 33 is : 33. Ra7 Kf6

Best regards,
JP

RM>>36. g4! hg4  37. hg4 Ra7  38. Qa7 f4  39. Bf4! ef4  40. Nh4! Bf7  41.  Qd4 K
RM>                                                                            ^
RM>And here, I have the black King on g7 (from move 28). How did he get to e6?

RM>>42. Nf5 Bf8  43. Qf4 Kd7  44. Nd4 Qe1  45. Kg2 Bd5  46. Be4 Be4  47.  Ne4 Be
RM>>48. Nb5 Nf8  49. Nbd6 Ne6  50. Qe5 Resigns

RM>Thanks again to the poster of the game, and could you please tell me
RM>where I`ve gone wrong, if I've gone wrong.

RM>Thanks

RM>Ralf

RM>-----Ralf Muhlberger-----(ralf@cs.uq.oz.au)-----University of Queensland-----
RM>I wonder if other people can hear voices in their head. I certainly can. I ca
RM>hear one now. It's saying: "I wonder if other people can hear voices in ... "
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Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: perlman@qso.Colorado.EDU (Eric S. Perlman)
Subject: Re: Rating of Radio Shack 1650
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 22:39:58 GMT

In article <1992Sep15.194148.22778@exu.ericsson.se> exudtn@exu.ericsson.se writes:
>What is Sargon rated at?

Which version of Sargon?  Sargon II was about 1300, Sargon III around
1800, not sure about Sargon IV.

>  Of the PC based chess games which is the best? They all
>claim to have beaten the other.

According to Computer Chess Reports, which is the best source for
answering such a question, the strongest PC program (IBM compatibles) is
M-chess, with Zarkov 2.6 #2 but about 50-80 points lower-rated.  M-chess
plays at about 2400 strength, and for those who own 386 or 486
computers, a new version, called M-chess professional will be coming out
in a month or two, which is supposed to about 80 points stronger than
M-chess.

Thanks for asking.


-- 
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A battleground for rival ideologies to slug it out with glee." -Tim Rice,"Chess"
     Eric S. Perlman 				 <perlman@qso.colorado.edu> 
  Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado, Boulder
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: F-S II, game 5 moves 1-20
From: fry@zariski.harvard.edu (David Fry)
Date: 9 Sep 92 11:19:27 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Harvard Math Department


AP reports that most of the spectators and much of the press have left
the match site now that it has settle into a routine.  There were no
new Fischer tales today.

   Fischer Spassky
   (White) (Black)
   1. e4 e5
   2. Nf3 Nc6
   3. Bb5 a6
   4. Ba4 Nf6
   5. 0-0 Be7
   6. Re1 b5
   7. Bb3 d6
   8. c3 0-0
   9. h3 Nb8
   10. d4 Nbd7
   11. Nbd2 Bb7
   12. Bc2 Re8
   13. Nf1 Bf8
   14. Ng3 g6
   15. Bg5 h6
   16. Bd2 exd4
   17. cxd4 c5
   18. d5 Nb6
   19. Ba5 Nfd7
   20. b3 Bg7


David Fry                                  fry@math.harvard.edu
Division of Applied Sciences               fry@huma1.bitnet
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Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: jkenton@world.std.com (Jeff Kenton)
Subject: Re: Who are the seconds in the Fischer/Spassky match?
Organization: Kenton Systems Corporation, Weston MA
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:15:27 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.112707.11007@gdr.bath.ac.uk> mapmef@gdr.bath.ac.uk (M E Fletcher) writes:
>
>I saw in one source that Fischer had enlisted the Phillipine Grandmaster
>Eugenio Torre as a second for this match - but I haven't seen this stated
>anywhere else. Anyway, what I really wanted to know is how to pronounce
>"Torre". Is it Torr\'e (Torr-ay) or just Tor.


Thanks(?) to early Spanish exploration, Spanish is widely spoken in
the Phillipines.  I assume the Spanish pronunciation is the right one.


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From: mrr@scss3.cl.msu.edu (Mark Riordan)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Chess program on DOS
Date: 8 Sep 92 02:47:38 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

E1.BEH@forsythe.stanford.edu (BEHROOZ TOFIGHRAD) writes:
: 
: I am looking for chess program for DOS; can anyone refer
: me to an FTP site and filename?
: 
: Thanks
: 
: Behrooz Tofig
: e1.beh@forsythe.stanford.edu
: e1.beh@stanford.bitnet

CHESS88 is a DOS chess game that dates back to the early 1980's.
I have put it on scss3.cl.msu.edu under pub/pc/chess88.zip.
Given that the .EXE file is only 9472 bytes long (4489 bytes
PKZIPed), it plays pretty well and has decent graphics.  

Somewhere I have a chess-playing BASIC program that I came across
also in the early 1980's.  It's only a few hundred lines long.
It plays lousy chess, but it's amazing that it can be done at all
in such a short program.  The source code is totally incomprehensible.
From: "lisa powell" <lisa.powell@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: fischer-spassky
Date: 5 Sep 92 20:50:26 EST
Reply-To: "lisa powell" <lisa.powell@canrem.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

DC>     Subject: Fischer-Spassky

DC> I've been following the Fischer-Spassky story on this newsgroup for
DC> a while now - I'm not a chess player.

DC> My question is - Is the reappearance of Bobby Fischer going to be
the chess story of the decade? WIll he just crawl back under the
proverbial rock from whence he came once the match is over followed by
a return to 'normal programming' in the chess world. If he wins
against Spassky, and shows sufficient brilliancy in doing so (ie his
old self) will there be talk of a Fischer-Kasparov match. Can Kasparov
ignore Fischer in these circumstances?

David: You have *got to be kidding. That would go far toward signaling
the demise of FIDE. Would you want that?

Step back and look at the situation for a moment. A brilliantly-gifted
spoiled brat goes off the deep end for about 20 years. Then, for
reasons advanced but not yet proven, he sends out word that he will
consent to play the over-the-hill GM he defeated to gain the World
Championship in 1972. A wealthy sponsor jumps at the chance; Spassky
is out of his gourd with delight at being center stage at this
end-of-the-road moment in his career (and guaranteed to rich purse
just for losing)! Because Fischer *is* news, the world's spotlight is
on this sideshow far more than it will be for a true main event such
as the match between Short and Timman do determine who will challenge
the genuine World Champion, Kasparov.

Granted, Kasparov could agree to a similar side-show for an even
larger purse, but such a match would still be a side show, not the
main event.

Internet: lisa.powell@canrem.com . CRS . 71036,36 Compuserve
   
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From: clong@remus.rutgers.edu (Chris Long)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: M-Chess Replacement Disk?
Date: 8 Sep 92 18:30:31 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


In a recent move I lost my original M-Chess disk.  I called
ICD trying to get a replacement disk, and I was basically told
"tough".  Since M-Chess is copy protected, this basically means
I'm out $100 since I didn't want to install it before moving my
system, and I won't be able to upgrade without the original disk
either.  Is there any way I could contact M-Chess directly?

I'll have a few choice words for ICD in the letter I'm mailing them.
-- 
Chris Long, 265 Old York Rd., Bridgewater, NJ  08807-2618
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: david@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu (David Kaufmann)
Subject: Re: Who are the seconds in the Fischer/Spassky match?
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-28163]: bourbon
Organization: E.E. Dept., Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 22:13:08 GMT

In article <Bu9p46.B7L@math.uwaterloo.ca> alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Alex Lopez-Ortiz) writes:
>
>The pronunciation is Torr-ay. The mexican player is Carlos Torre, of world
>fame because of a couple of brilliant victories over LASKER, one of them
>while Lasker was the world champion. (Carlos Torre was made (retroactively)
>a GM by FIDE in 1982). Then Torre started playing chess against God and
>was blacklisted by the world Jewry...
>
I believe Torre won only one game against Lasker, at Moscow 1925
(where Lasker came in 2nd after Bogolyubov and ahead of Capablanca).
There is a story about that game (in short, at the critical moment
Lasker was distracted by the absence of his wife). 

The last sentence, of course, is pure nonsense.


David Kaufmann
INTERNET:	david@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu
From: rws@duke.cs.duke.edu (Ronnie W. Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: GAME 5??? WHEN????
Date: 8 Sep 92 12:18:24 GMT
Organization: Duke University Computer Science Dept.; Durham, N.C.

In article <1992Sep7.211557.9860@uoft02.utoledo.edu> dweddin@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
>hey,
>
>when is game 5???? i thought they were going to play today.
>what's the deal?????
>
>anybody know?????? please post!!!!!!


Games are scheduled each week for Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday.
This is according to an AP story run in my local paper.  So Game 5 should
be on Wednesday Sept. 9.  





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   (and still at Duke a little bit)
 INTERNET: rws@cs.duke.edu
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Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: jhc@m2lll.uucp (James H. Coombs)
Subject: Re: Rite equation
Reply-To: jhc@iris.brown.edu.UUCP (James H. Coombs)
Organization: IRIS - Brown University
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 20:28:05 GMT

In article <2452@unet.UUCP> stank@perrault.net.com (Stan Knight) writes:

>Can anyone provide me with an equation that converts FIDE rateings to USCF
>equalivents? Math is no problem for me---I have a calulator!!

Just add K points.  Maybe it's 100; maybe it's 60.  It depends on your
judgment of the amount of deflation that the USCF pool has recently
enjoyed.  CCR (Larry Kaufman) is still using 100 but is considering
reducing the number.  Of course, there are theoretical problems with
comparing people from different rating pools, but then there apparently
have been enough cross overs to permit good estimates.

--Jim
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: ceblair@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Charles Blair)
Subject: Re: K-K games rigged?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 04:00:07 GMT

   Lev Alburt wrote an article speculating that Karpov might be
forced to throw a match to Kasparov (this was in CHESS LIFE,
I think before the termination of the first match)

    I think speculation by Alburt and Gulko about thrown games
is also in SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER.
From: pope@gold.kpc.com (John Pope)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: FISCHER SPASSKY game 1 - comments
Date: 5 Sep 92 00:14:34 GMT
	<ovel.715618119@Minsk>
Organization: /nfs/gold/u/home/pope/.organization

A couple notes on the opening:

15.Bg5 h6 16.Bd2

	More usual is 15.a4 c5 16.d5 c4 17.Bg5 h6 18.Be3, but Fischer
	wants the B on d2 in preparation for his new b2-b4 idea.

16...Bg7 17.a4 c5

	A game Kuczynski-Kveinis Warsaw 1989 went 17...ed 18.cd c5 19.d5
	Nb6 20.Qc1 Kh7 21.Ba5 Nfd7 22.h4 with an edge.

18.d5 c4 19.b4!?

	Not only is this a novelty, but the whole idea of playing b2-b4
	with the black pawn on c4 seems to be new (there are tons of games
	where white plays b2-b4 with the BP on c5, though). For better or
	worse Spassky should probably have put the idea to the test with
	19...cb 20.Bb3 Nb6 (or maybe 20...Nc5), since after:

19...Nh7?! 20.Be3 (back here now that the Q-side space has been gained) h5
21.Qd2 Rf8 22.Ra3

	...he got almost zero counterplay.

	
--
John Pope
pope@kpc.com
Kubota Pacific Computers, Inc.
(408) 987-3362
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: palane@iastate.edu (Paul A. Lane)
Subject: Re: The 179th Demand...
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:34:25 GMT

In <1992Sep3.015318.7322@oswego.Oswego.EDU> kinne@oswego.Oswego.EDU writes:

>Hello Folks:
>	History is being made again, whether you agree with it or not.
>I'd like to ask on some related, but ancient history.  According to
>reports I have Fisher refused to defend his title because FIDE would
>only agree to 178 out of 179 demands Bobby made.  What was the demand
>Bobby made that FIDE would not agree to?

I belive it was a game limit (24 as I recall) with a tie going to the
champion. The Russians got their backs up and FIDE caved in. 

It is worth noting that similar demands for title defenses have been
permitted. But, of course, this was Bobby...
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen)
Subject: Re: fischer-spassky
Organization: Sequoia Peripherals, Inc.
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 22:47:34 GMT

In article <BuBwxJ.1wv@cs.dal.ca> hyde@cs.dal.ca (Bill Hyde) writes:
>In article <1992Sep9.181559.28959@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, bwatkins@nyx.cs.du.edu (The God of all machines) writes:
>|> Witness the USSR's players keeping fischer out of the championship
>|> in the 60's.  "The Russians Fix World Chess"
>
>	You forgot to include the :-)  Or are you really paranoid
>	enough to believe this?


I believe they did. It is easy enough, when 6 players from the same 
country are playing in the same interzonal, for the players from that
country to help each other at the expense of a foreigner. And the Soviet 
Union would certainly not have been above doing this.

Such things happen all the time. And not just in chess.

Remember the Olympics this summer when the best Russian woman
in gymnastics didn't qualify for the finals? One of her teammates 
"discovered" that evening that she was injured too badly to compete 
in the finals. So the better gymnast was entered in the finals in 
her place and came home with the gold medal.

Go back 25 years to a much more repressive Soviet government in
a sport that is crucial to national self-esteem. And set it up
where one of the best players is from your sworn enemy, the US.
And 6 out of the next 10 or so top players are from the USSR. And 
Fischer didn't qualify.

And you really think the Soviets didn't cheat?



-- 
Dave Eisen    dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU   Sequoia Peripherals: (415) 967-5644
      There's something in my library to offend everybody.
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From: gm26@prism.gatech.EDU (MCMURRAY,GARY V)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Fischer-Spassky game 5 results
Date: 9 Sep 92 20:11:30 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

The results of game 5 - Fischer LOSES!!!!!

Evidently, he got beat pretty bad!!!  Moves to follow!!!

-- 
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Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: jhc@m2lll.uucp (James H. Coombs)
Subject: Re: F-S II game 8 moves 1-12
Reply-To: jhc@iris.brown.edu.UUCP (James H. Coombs)
Organization: IRIS - Brown University
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 17:58:48 GMT

In article <1992Sep13.111710.15556@husc3.harvard.edu> fry@tara.harvard.edu (David Fry) writes:

>   Spassky Fischer
>   (White) (Black)
>   1. d4 Nf6
>   2. c4 g6
>   3. Nc3 Bg7
>   4. e4 d6
>   5. f3 0-0

Aha!  Not going to exchange Queens this time!  Promises to be a very
different game than #2 (also 4 & 6, the QGAs with early Q exchanges).

>   6. Be3 Nc6
>   7. Nge2 a6
>   8. Qd2 Rb8
>   9. h4 h5
>   10. Bh6 e5
>   11. Bxg7 Kxg7

Looking like a standard Saemisch KID.  What now?  12.O-O-O b5.  I
hope not then 13.dxe5 dxe5 13.Qxd8 Rxd8.  --Jim
From: bereolos@furnace.ecn.purdue.edu (Peter J Bereolos)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: fischer-spassky
Date: 10 Sep 92 16:01:38 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <1992Sep9.181559.28959@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> bwatkins@nyx.cs.du.edu writes:
>
>Indeed, the USA has wonderfull policies of allowing several open
>tournaments' winners to play in its zonal.  I do not believe FIDE
>requires this.  An all draw record will not win anything for you, how
>ever.  It is certainly possible to fill up top spots so that a superior
>player will never have a chance to play in the championships through
>corrupt bargains with other players to throw games or play to draws.
>
I also believe FIDE seeds players into the interzonals on the basis of rating.
I have heard the Fischer allegations of "Commie cheating" in the candidates
tournament which led to the knockout match format currently employed.  However,
I have never really looked things up.  Does anyone know the year in which this
took place?

Pete
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Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: craig@jido.b11.ingr.com (Craig Presson)
Subject: Re: What defense (on e2-e4)Fischer would dislike most?
Reply-To: craig@jido.b11.ingr.com
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, Alabama
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 20:06:32 GMT

In article <Bu2nKv.8GH@math.uwaterloo.ca> alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Alex Lopez-Ortiz) writes:
[What about the Winawer French for Spasski?]

   Calling this position "won for whites" seems more like wishfull thinking...

"I may yet be forced to admit that the Winawer is sound." -- R.J.
Fischer, in _My 60 Memorable Games_.

-- Craig Presson
When in doubt, sack out!	  -- June Grizzell
From: ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Pronunciation guide from old _Chess Lifes_
Date: 15 Sep 92 14:53:52 GMT
Reply-To: ark@alice.UUCP ()
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ

In article <1992Sep14.232106.20803@midway.uchicago.edu> hau4@midway.uchicago.edu writes:

> Except for the stress, because it's MAR-otsy ('mar' is like 'car'). ALL 
> Hungarian words are stressed on the first syllable; no exceptions.

Hmmm... What about names written with an explicit accent mark (if that's
what it is), like Bela Barto'k (put the ' over the o, please)?
-- 
				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu (sven  hauptfeld)
Subject: Re: Prononciation Of Names
Reply-To: hau4@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 07:45:43 GMT

In article <65640@cup.portal.com> wms@cup.portal.com (W Mark Schneider) writes:
>And how do you pronounce Euwe as in Dr. Max Euwe?
>
>Oh, and to answer my own question, Dr. Euwe claimed then that
>it was impossible to pronounce his name correctly in English
>as that language did not have the correct sound.
>

Then it is also impossible to laugh or cry in English as those sounds also
don't exist in the language.

	Sven

P.S. EUWE is pronounced as though it was written OEWE in German. Closest
English immitation would be UH-VUH.

Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: t89par@tdb.uu.se (Par Svensson)
Subject: Re: WEIRD/UNORTHODOX OPENINGS
Organization: Dept. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 20:20:12 GMT

The book 'Unorthodox openings' by Benjamin/Schiller (Batsford)
is excellent on the subject.

/Par
From: ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Spassky wins game 4
Date: 6 Sep 92 21:43:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: alice.23636
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ

I can't remember the last time I've seen a Queen's Gambit Accepted...

The moves:

	Spassky	Fischer

1.	d4	d5
2.	c4	d5xc4
3.	Nf3	Nf6
4.	e3	e6
5.	Bxc4	c5
6.	0-0	a6
7.	d4xc5	Qxd1
8.	Rxd1	Bxc5
9.	b3	Nbd7
10.	Bb2	b6
11.	Nc3	Bb7
12.	Rac1	Be7
13.	Nd4	Rc8
14.	f3	b5
15.	Be2	Bc5
16.	Kf1	Ke7
17.	e4	g5
18.	Nb1	g4
19.	Ba3	b4
20.	Rxc5	Nxc5
21.	Bxb4	Rhd8
22.	Na3	gxf3
23.	gxf3	Nfd7
24.	Nc4	Ba8
25.	Kf2	Rg8
26.	h4	Rc7
27.	Nc2	Rb8
28.	Ba3	h5
29.	Rg1	Kf6
30.	Ke3	a5
31.	Rg5	a4
32.	b4	Nb7
33.	b5	Nbc5
34.	Nd4	e5
35.	Nxe5	Nxe5
36.	Rf5+	Kg7
37.	Rxe5	Nxe4
38.	Bd3	Rc3
39.	Bb4	Rxd3+
40.	Kxd3	Nf6
41.	Bd6	Rc8
42.	Rg5+	Kh7
43.	Be5	Ne8
44.	Rxh5+	Kg6
45.	Rg5+	Kh7
46.	Bf4	f6
47.	Rf5	Kg6
48.	b6	Rd8
49.	Ra5	Bxf3
50.	h5+	resigns
-- 
				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com
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From: jxp@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au (Joe Petrolito)
Subject: Re: "GRANDMASTER CHESS" for PC
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 04:13:10 GMT

jhc@m2lll.uucp (James H. Coombs) writes:

>Mass market version of Zarkov, which is currently the second strongest
>PC program (second to MChess).  GM is supposed to be slightly weaker
>than Zarkov, which would still make it significantly stronger than the
>next tier of programs.  Chessmaster and Sargon are yet another grouping
>weaker.  ROUGHLY, Chessmaster plays about 2100 to Zarkov's 2350 (on
>486/33).  --Jim

Do you have any more details on the Zarkov/GM Chess comparison (eg
strength, features, is it an old version of Zarkov?). 
I've seen GM advertised here for around US $42 (approx)
which is much cheaper than US $75 for Zarkov. If there's not much
difference in strength, GM would be a better buy.


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