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From: cerulean@access.digex.com (Bill Christens-Barry)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: 1 BOOK ONLY
Date: 23 Jan 93 01:41:29 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt MD USA
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One book only, huh?  It would have to be

  "The Art of Chess Analysis"

by Jan Timman.  This book is filled with many of the classic games of the
last 30 years.  There are tremendous fighting games, subtle games, games
of perfection, and games with many difficult choices.  But throughout,
there is thorough, probing, skeptical, and disciplined analysis.  Most
unusually, Timman gives clear opinions on all of variations, backed up
by analysis.  Finally, there is a rare appreciation of the human dimension,
the drama, doubt, and passion that take chess beyond mere technical precision.

Bill Christens-Barry
cerulean@digex.com


Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: rryan@panix.com (Rob Ryan)
Subject: Short-Timman, Game 10, Short Won, moves
Organization: Panix, NYC
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:08:37 GMT

Nigel has won game 10, bringing the score to 6 to 4.  Timman was apparently
in time trouble early with only 20 min to play the last 16 moves of his
first time control.

Game 10: Ruy Lopez, Zaitsev Variation

       Short Timman
    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    Bb7
    10  d4    Re8
    11  Nbd2  Bf8
    12  d5    Nb8
    13  Nf1   Nbd7
    14  Ng3   Nc5
    15  Bc2   a5
    16  Nh2   g6
    17  Qf3   h5
    18  Be3   Nfd7
    19  Rad1  Qe7
    20  Ngf1  Bg7
    21  Bc1   c6
    22  b4    axb4
    23  cxb4  Na4
    24  dxc6  Bxc6
    25  Bb3   Rad8
    26  Qg3   Nf8
    27  Nf3   Ne6
    28  Ng5   Nxg5
    29  Bxg5  Bf6
    30  Bxf6  Qxf6
    31  Rd3   h4
    32  Rf3   hxg3
    33  Rxf6  gxf2+
    34  Kxf2  Re7
    35  Rxg6+ Kh7
    36  Rg3   d5
    37  exd5  Bxd5
    38  Rd3   Nb6
    39  Ne3   Red7
    40  Nxd5
    Black Resigns

-- 
Rob Ryan
    rryan@panix.com
From: smason@zeus.calpoly.edu (Scott A. Mason)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Caro-Kann B17 / CK 9.3 analysis requested
Summary: Analysis in Caro-Kann
Keywords: Caro-Kann, B17, CK 9.3
Date: 21 Jan 93 06:35:18 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo


	In a recent skittles game, I ran into the following line:

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nd7 5. Ng5 e6 6. Bc4 Ngf6
7. Qe2 Nb6 8. Bb3 Be7 9. N1f3 h6

	ECO B17 gives 10. Ne4 Nbd5 11. Bd2 Qc7 12. Ne5 a5 13. c3 +=
	from Suetin - Keres, USSR 1955

But, I am curious about the line: 
	10. Nf7 Kf7 11. Ne5 Ke8 12. Qd3 

	possibilities are: 12. ... Kf8, 12. ... Qc7.
	play might continue: 12. ... Kf8 13. Qg6 Qe8 14. g4 

	Can anyone find a clear refution or show an advantage or
equality  for white?  

	
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From: price@crc.ac.uk (Mr. P.M. Rice)
Subject: Timman 1-0 Short (7)
Organization: MRC Human Genome Resource Centre
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 11:21:33 GMT

Timman beat Short in the 7th game in crushing fashion. A new move on move 7
in the Exchange Variation of the Ruy Lopez made Short think for 40 minutes
only to come up with a risky and desperate advance on the King-side.

Short castled on the other side, but found that only Timman's attack had any
hope of success. Short's 19th move left his Queen cut off, and on move 26 he
had to give up his Queen for a minor piece yet he still played on for another
6 moves.

White: Nigel Short
Black: Jan Timman
Candidates Final 1993, Game 7

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.O-O Qd6 6.Na3 Be6 7.Qe2!? f6
8.Rd1 g5? 9.d4 g4 10.Ne1 O-O-O 11.Be3 h5 12.d5 cxd 13.exd Bf7 14.c4 Qd7
15.d6! Qc6 16.c5 Nh6 17.b4 Qa4 18.Nc4 Rd7 19.Na5! c6 (19...Qxb4?? 20.c6!)
20.Nd3 Nf5 21.a3 Kb8 22.Nb2 Qb5 23.Qe1 Nxe3 24.fxe3 Bh6 25.Kh1 h4 26.a4 Qxa5
27.bxa5 g3 28.h3 Bg5 29.Nd3 Ka8 30.Rab1 Re8 31.Rb6 Bd5 32.e4 resigns

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From: haefner@IASTATE.EDU (Ralph I Haefner)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: 1 BOOK ONLY
Date: 26 Jan 93 20:26:21 GMT
Reply-To: haefner@IASTATE.EDU (Ralph I Haefner)
Organization: Iowa State University

In article <1451600069@igc.apc.org>, CAPSA <capsa@igc.apc.org> writes:
> 
> I disagree with "Ralph".  I don't think I owe an explanation for Hooper &
Whyld's OXFORD COMPANION TO CHESS.  I think the choice speaks for itself.
> 
> Fraternally,
> 
> Jerome Bibuld
> 

Of course you don't,  apparently the implied :) after my statement would have
been better explicitly stated.

Ralph
From: ck832@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Stephen Leary)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: CHESS NOVELS?
Date: 24 Jan 1993 01:41:21 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ck832@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Stephen Leary)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, jay@tweekco.uucp (Jay Whitley) says:

>Can anyone add to this list?
>  THE CHESS PLAYERS by Frances Parkinson Keyes
>  THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT by Walter Tevis
>(These are novels were chess is the central subject.)
>

Nabokov, Vladimir. THE DEFENSE.
   "The hero is a chessplayer of the master class who can find only
two approaches to life--the way of the jigsaw, fitting the shapeless
scraps of the world together into a pre-ordained pattern, and the
way of chess.... The style is dense and allusive, the intelligence
vast." Burgess. This is the greatest novel ever written about chess.

Neville, Katherine. THE EIGHT.
   "As the action races back and forth between the era of the
French Revolution and contemporary america and Algeria, both the
historical and modern characters serve as pawns in an intricately
executed game of chess. Players compete to unravel the sinister
secret and curse of the mythical Montglane Service, an ornate chess
set custom designed for Charlemagne...." Booklist

Dunnett, Dorothy. PAWN IN FRANKINCENSE. 1969
   "Plots and counterplots, blood and gore lead to an excruciating
climax in the form of a chess contest [play with living pieces].
Penalty for capture is death." Library Journal

Arrabal, Fernando. THE TOWER STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. 1983
   Originally in Spanish "La Torre Herida por el Rayo." Novel
revolves around a chess game, which is included with move-by-move
diagrams throughout the novel. Arrabal has wriiten other things
related th chess as well.

Ouologuem, Yambo. BOUND TO VIOLENCE. 1971
   Translated from "Devoir de Violence." Chess and violence written from
African/African-American perspective (?)

Leithauser, Brad. HENCE: A NOVEL.
   Apparently the theme is chess.

Zweig, Stefan. THE ROYAL GAME.
   OK, just a novella, but still....

Delman, David. THE LAST GAMBIT. 1991
   Mystery novel, favorably reviewed by NYT Book Review.

Stout, Rex. THE GAMBIT.
   Mystery Novel. I think I have the right title.

Middleton, Thomas. A GAME AT CHESS.
   Really a long poem, but often discussed in literary mags.

Kawabata, Yasunari. THE MASTER OF GO.
   Translation of "Meijin." Not chess, but I thought I'd throw
it in anyway, just in case.

Ky (or Kie??), Pham Van.
   Apparently has wriiten some novels about chess (or more likely,
chinese chess), in Vietnamese. Haven't been able to track down
any specific titles as of today.

Cockburn, Alexander. IDLE PASSION. 1974
   Just kidding. Sorry.

I seem to have misplaced my master list of this stuff, so I probably
have more. I've got short stories, poems, and chess in the general
press if interested. Maybe I'll post later.

Stephen Leary
 
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: jmumaw@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John C Mumaw)
Subject: Re: CHESS NOVELS?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 12:40:51 GMT

     One more chess novel: Master Prim by James Whitfield Ellison (1968).
The protagonist is extremely Fischer-like.

                                          -John C. Mumaw
From: marcelk@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Marcel van Kervinck)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Timman-Short game 8 (draw) moves
Date: 22 Jan 93 13:25:42 GMT
Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.

# Short - Timman
# El Escorial 1993
# (8)
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Nxe4 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3 d5 8.Nxe5
Nxe5 9.dxe5 c6 10.Nd2 Nxd2 11.Bxd2 Be7 12.Qh5 Be6 13.c3 Qd7 14.Bg5 Bf5
15.Rfe1 Bg6 16.Qh4 Bxg5 17.Qxg5 O-O 18.Rad1 Rfe8 19.Re3 Qf5 20.Qxf5 Bxf5
21.h3 h5 22.Rde1 Rad8 23.Bd1 g6 24.b4 c5 25.bxc5 Rc8 26.a4 Rxc5 27.axb5
axb5 28.g4
# 1/2

--
Marcel van Kervinck
marcelk@stack.urc.tue.nl
From: arimakel@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Ari Kalevi Makela)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Sveshnikov, 7. a4.
Date: 27 Jan 93 20:34:50 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

In <9301271058.AA07094@qv3donald.LeidenUniv.nl> raymond@qv3donald.LeidenUniv.nl (Raymond Wagner) writes:



>1.   e4     c5
>2.  Nf3    Nc6
>3.   d4   cxd4
>4. Nxd4    Nf6
>5.  Nc3     e5
>6. Ndb5     d6
>7.   a4

>Now here I responded with 7. ... a6, but I lost two consecutive club
>games with this line now. Any comments and/or suggestions and/or complete games?

This is Schechter's old recommendation. White intends to prevent the
Black counterplay with ...b5 and then occupy d5. However, this is a time
consuming plan and though not harmless Black will solve his opening
problems succesfully. The main replies are ...Be6, ...h6 and ...a6. The
first two give somewhat better chances for White.

After 7. ...a6 8. Na3 one good line for Black is ...Be7 9. Be3 Be6
10.Nc4 Nxe4! (typical of these lines) 11. Nxe4 d5 12. Nb6 de 13. Nxa8
Qxa8 13. c3 0-0 15. a5 f5 16. Qa4 Kh8 17. Bc4 Bd7 when Black has
sufficent compensation for his minimal material deficit. 

-- 
Ari K. M{kel{		    Department of Radiochemistry
ari.makela@helsinki.fi      University of Helsinki

"Night must fall now - darker, darker"
From: jw0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joseph W. Winwood)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Najdorf
Date: 27 Jan 93 04:28:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.gfNdjvq00WBOA1C84O
Organization: Data Communications, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


I would suggest that after the moves in this line 6.Bg6,e6; 7.Bc4, that
black play 7....Qc7, if then 8.Bb3,Nbd7; (I see no reason Black should blindly
play 7...Qa5).  As long as black plays ...Nc5 before ...Be7 getting rid 
of the B on b3, (the sac on e6 doesn't appear sound).

Joseph Winwood
Carnegie Mellon
 
>Some recent discussions here concern the line 1.e4, c5 2.Nf3, d6 3.d4, cd
>4.Nd4, Nf6 5.Nc3, a6 6.Bg5, e6 7.Bc4.  In Wayne Mendryk's post, some
>analysis is given but it is obviously from a different line (with an
>earlier Nbd7 by Black) because as one follows the score, Black castles
>without any mention of the Queen's Knight moving:
> 
>6.Bg5! e6 7.Bc4! Qa5 8.Qd2 e6 9.O-O-O (9. O-O isn't bad either)
>9...b5 10.Bb3 10...Bb7 11.Rhe1 11...O-O-O! 12.a3! 12...Be7
>13.Kb1 13...Qb6 14.f3 Kb8 15.Be3 Nc5 16.Na2+=
>Gulko-Petrosian USSR 1976.
> 
>I suspect this analysis comes from the old Najdorf line 6.Bg5, Nbd7
>7.Bc4, Qa5--which has a bad reputation and isn't seen much in GM
>circles these days.  I noticed though that according to the Dec 92
>issue of Chess GM Julian Hodgson has taken this line up of late and
>I also believe Greg Defotis used it in some games in Chess Life not
>too far back.  Having been brought into this conversation I find myself
>wondering if has some improvements for this line (with Nbd7) which
>could salvage its reputation?  Any of Defotis's or Hodgson's games
>with it would be interesting to see, but maybe that's asking too much.
>As to the line without Nbd7, I suggested Black try 7...Nc6 and wonder
>if anyone has any comments or has seen any analysis on that.  I have
>not actually analysed it and wonder what happens next if White follows
with 8.f4?
 
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: schiller@whorf(Eric Schiller)
Subject: Re: BRING OUT YER DEAD!
Reply-To: schiller@sapir.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:54:57 GMT

In article <1993Jan24.210746.1270@uoft02.utoledo.edu>  
dweddin@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
> 
> i am setting up BOOKUP7 databases of unorthodox openings such as
> 
> 1. g4
> 1. a3
> 1. Nc3
> 1. a3
> 1. h4
> 1. a4
> 
> 1. ...  g5
> 1. ...  b5
> 
> or any other openings that are considered unorthodox by the main
> stream.
> 
> 
> please email me any games...tournament or offhand, grandmaster or fish,
> win or lose.
> 
> all games have value, even if they are used as an example of what line
> should NOT be played.
> 
> 
> thanks in advance
> 
> don wedding
> 
You could save yourself a lot of time by purchasing my Unorthodox
Openings Grab Bag from Chess Labs, 818-799-7567.

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From: jarmo@ae.tut.fi (Jarmo Sorvari)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Quadrupled Pawns! (ICS, Motoman-aries)
Date: 27 Jan 93 10:16:24
Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland.
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In-reply-to: gfeygin@unicorn.eecg.toronto.edu's message of 26 Jan 93 18:52:08 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.135208.18919@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> gfeygin@unicorn.eecg.toronto.edu (Gennady Feygin) writes:

   There is a book of chess curiosities (can't recall the author offhand) ---

The Dutch Tim Krabbe is the author of such a book.
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From: hyatt@cis.uab.edu (Robert Hyatt)
Subject: Re: Computer Chess Books or articles (algorithms, history)
Organization: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:05:16 GMT

In article <106995@netnews.upenn.edu> isler@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Sylvia Isler) writes:
>
>Hello,
>I'm looking for some journal articles or books on algorithms for
>playing chess (i.e. algs for deciding chess moves, endgame strategy,
>etc.) and the history of automated chess playing.
>
>If anyone can make some recommendations, please do.
>
>Thanks,

This should be a FAQ by now.  Two "bibles" for computer chess authors are:

(1) Chess Skill in Man and Machine, Springer-Verlag.  Includes a detailed
chapter on the Northwestern program 4.x

(2) Computers, Chess and Cognition, Springer-Verlag.  Includes detailed
chapters on Deep Thought, HiTech, and Cray Blitz plus lots of other programs
and databases.

After that, a trip to your local university library for back issues of SIGART
from ACM, the artificial intelligence journal.  Then off to IEEE Pattern 
Analysis and Machine Intelligence.  You will find several articles there by
various chess program developers.


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From: carabalo@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David G. Caraballo)
Subject: KGA:  3. Nf3 d5  4. exd5 Qxd5  5. Nc3 Qf5!?
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:51:16 GMT

A week and a half ago, I posted about a certain line of the King's
Gambit Accepted:  1. e4 e5  2. f4 exf4  3. Nf3 d5  4. exd5 Qxd5 
5. Nc3 Qf5!? 

I invite anyone who feels this is unsound to play me via email (or in
person, if you're local).  You can have White.  I was going to post all
the reasonable lines I found, but there were far too many.  Instead, I'd
like to post some actual games.  I've played five games already against
Chessmaster 3000 (according to CCR, it is rated around 2070 on my machine),
each starting with the above variation, but I wanted to try this against
some human beings.  I would like to post all the games once I have a
reasonable number of them.  Please be advised that, unless you specify
otherwise, I plan to post the games.  I can leave out your name, if you
prefer.  A rough indication of your rating would be appreciated.

I am currently involved in 7 (!) correspondence games already, so I will
only be able to play a couple of moves or so per week (I play only as a
break from my thesis work).

4...Qxd5 is generally avoided in favor of 4...Nf6, a very sound, modern
move.  The main line, given in ECO-2 and elsewhere, after 5. Nc3, 
continues with 5...Qe6+.  Many continuations from that point tend to 
favor White.  I had never seen 5...Qf5 in any books or games, so I
posted to the net.  Several people replied, but no one mentioned they
had ever seen it (so I still have no references to its occurrence in
tournaments).  I am under the impression it is an improvement over
the 5...Qe6+ line given in ECO-2.

I have tried all of the suggestions I received, and I've played dozens of 
other variations.  I have yet to find a refutation of 5...Qf5!?  Black 
seems to get decent play no matter what I have played for White, and White
has to be careful not to get caught up with forcing Black's moves -- it
makes it harder for Black to make a mistake when the number of reasonable
choices is very small, and it is easy for White to over-extend in many of
the lines.  This variation is anything but boring.

David G. Caraballo
From: pope@vatican.kpc.com (John Pope)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Timman-Short game 11 endgame question
Date: 28 Jan 93 18:20:10 GMT
Organization: Kubota Pacific Computer, Inc.

(Marcel van Kervinck) writes:
> The position seemed to be a clear win for white, but black managed to
> demonstrate that it is not as trivial as one might think. White won
> the game after black made a mistake.  So the question remains: is this
> position a draw, or is it a won position for white anyway? 

The endgame of R+f&h pawns vs R is notoriously difficult and lots of
positions (e.g. when black's K controls g8) are theoretically drawn.
It seems like in this case it should be easier for white because the
black K is cut off. Where was the mistake you refer to?

> I think this problem can be solved today by means of database
> construction, considering that it converts quickly in a 6-piece game
> with 2 pawns, so it as a managable complexity. Does this database
> already exist?

Not as far as I know.

> If not, I'm planning to do it myself, but that may take
> some weeks. (I'm very busy at the moment.)

If you mean a complete database for R+f&h pawn vs. R, it may well take
longer than that...
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John Pope
pope@kpc.com
Kubota Pacific Computers, Inc.
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Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: hde+@cs.cmu.edu (Herbert Enderton)
Subject: sensei
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:33:25 GMT


As I understand it, a young aspiring professional go players in Japan
or Korea will have a sensei, usually a world-class player.  He or she
will live in the sensei's house, train with the other students,
exercise and eat according to the sensei's guidelines and so forth.

I'm curious:  do chess players do anything like this?  E.g. does
Kramnik even have a teacher, let alone a teacher in whose house he
lives?  Does Kasparov run a dojo?

For that matter, does this phenomenon exist in any other discipline,
e.g. music, mathematics, writing, or tennis?
From: corleyj@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Jason D Corley )
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Drugs in Chess?
Date: 26 Jan 93 05:07:54 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson

In article <1k254sINNn7@shelley.u.washington.edu> jph@hardy.u.washington.edu (Jeff Hanson) writes:
>
>	I know someone who snorts pawns.


Yeah, but he's so addicted he just sacs all of them right away, just to
get them off the board and into his lap.

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From: jc79@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (John Anthony Chanak)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Quadrupled Pawns! (ICS, Motoman-aries)
Date: 25 Jan 93 20:06:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.0fNBHsm00axb40skQn
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

The following was a game played at the date specified.  It develops into
an interesting position....
This game was played on ICS;

aries == Mark Ginsburg 
Motoman == Mr. Mottonen (+ a couple beer....)

Slightly interesting are the times spent on each move... A little
information you usually don't get in a move listing.

Time controls were 2 minutes + 8 seconds per move.  (Blitz, on ICS)

Enjoy!  I know I did.

-John Chanak (MataPatom on ICS)

# xboard game file -- Tue Jan 26 00:44:15 1993
	Motoman vs. aries
	algebraic
1. e4 (0:01)  g6 (0:04)
2. d4 (0:02)  Bg7 (0:03)
3. Nc3 (0:03)  d6 (0:02)
4. Nf3 (0:03)  a6 (0:03)
5. Be2 (0:05)  b5 (0:02)
6. 0-0 (0:05)  Bb7 (0:02)
7. d5 (0:08)  Nf6 (0:04)
8. Bd3 (0:06)  c6 (0:05)
9. dxc6 (0:09)  Nxc6 (0:03)
10. Re1 (0:02)  0-0 (0:02)
11. Bg5 (0:16)  h6 (0:03)
12. Be3 (0:10)  Ng4 (0:05)
13. Bf4 (0:12)  Rc8 (0:10)
14. Qd2 (0:32)  Kh7 (0:04)
15. Rad1 (0:07)  Nge5 (0:12)
16. Nxe5 (0:16)  dxe5 (0:05)
17. Be3 (0:07)  e6 (0:02)
18. Ne2 (0:10)  Qh4 (0:27)
19. f3 (0:24)  Rcd8 (0:06)
20. c3 (0:07)  f5 (0:10)
21. Bf2 (0:05)  Qg5 (0:10)
22. Qxg5 (0:07)  hxg5 (0:03)
23. Bc2 (0:05)  g4 (0:03)
24. Rxd8 (0:11)  Rxd8 (0:04)
25. Rd1 (0:02)  Rxd1 (0:14)
26. Bxd1 (0:03)  Na5 (0:18)
27. Bc2 (0:20)  Nc4 (0:26)
28. b3 (0:13)  gxf3 (0:17)
29. bxc4 (0:19)  fxe2 (0:03)
30. cxb5 (0:06)  axb5 (0:07)
31. Bd3 (0:23)  fxe4 (0:40)
32. Bxb5 (0:17)  e3 (0:04)
33. Be1 (0:04)  e4 (0:11)
34. a4 (0:13)  Bf8 (0:34)
35. a5 (0:17)  Ba3 (0:03)
36. a6 (0:09)  Ba8 (0:02)
37. Bxe2 (0:17)  Bc1 (0:03)
38. Kf1 (0:08)  Kg7 (0:06)
39. Bb5 (0:07)  Kf6 (0:12)
40. Bd7 (0:07)  Ke7 (0:11)
41. Bc8 (0:06)  Kd6 (0:32)
42. Ke2 (0:07)  e5 (0:06)
43. h4 (0:12)  Kc7 (0:08)
44. Be6 (0:09)  Bc6 (0:07)
45. Bf7 (0:11)  Bb5 (0:17)
46. c4 (0:06)  Bxa6 (0:06)
47. g4 (0:17)  Kd7 (0:14)
48. Bb4 (0:10)  Bd2 (0:32)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: Mark Ginsburg <mginsbur@rnd.stern.nyu.edu>
Subject: "Knight Moves" movie
Organization: Chessnews list (chessnews-request@tssi.com)
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 07:20:01 GMT


Gee, what a terrible movie!

Poor Diane Lane, a good actress (she was in the funny "My New Gun" with
James LeGros) had horrible lines to repeat.

Christopher Lambert, the GM with the vaguely European accent who uses
the computer to "tap into the USCF database" to instantaneously
look up games in a database containing "every American game played
since 1980".  The USCF logo was everywhere - how embarrassing!

It was surreally bad - this movie also had an _inside chess_ laying
around - if I was USCF or _IC_ brass, I would instantly disavow this
dreck.

I liked one part though: one junior stabs another with his fountain
pen after resigning (instead of shaking hands) - typical of today's
US Junior scene as well with its plethora of overbearing parents.

-mark