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From: ksiew@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (kok-hsien siew)
Subject: Chess on IRC
Keywords: IRC chess
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 12:16:19 GMT

Hello. I was just wondering if anyone here has ever or wants to play
a game of chess on IRC. The closest I ever get to a game of chess on
IRC was last year when a german guy ask me to play chess with him on
IRC.

  by the way, IRC stands for International Relay Chat.
  please refer to alt.irc for more details.

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From: rdubbs@cs.tamu.edu (Roger B. Dubbs III)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Kriegspiel (was Re: Chess Clocks)
Summary: Thank You!
Date: 13 Apr 92 19:33:21 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University

My thanks to all those who replied.  I believe that a chess clock may be
suited to what we need.  The only question I'd really like the answer to
now is:

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

In article <nolan.703135575@helios> nolan@helios.unl.edu writes:
>
>I've seen one, but it was rather crude, and I don't know where to get it.
>Perhaps others on the net can help here.  This would be a fun program
>for two networked systems, if such a beast exists.
>---
>Michael Nolan
>nolan@helios.unl.edu, nolan@tssi.com

This is exactly what I have in mind.  On a side note, have any of you
out there in net-land tried this game?  I understand that it is so
different from regular chess that Kriegspiel players don't even like the
analogy.  I read once that the King really comes into his own in this
game!

Roger Dubbs
rdubbs@cs.tamu.edu

Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: hau4@quads.uchicago.edu (sven  hauptfeld)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Women in chess
Date: 6 Apr 92 20:00:37 GMT
Reply-To: hau4@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <benwood.702330779@milton> benwood@milton.u.washington.edu (Ben Henwood) writes:
>hau4@quads.uchicago.edu (sven  hauptfeld) writes:
>
>[...]
>
>>In USA, the difference [between men and women chess players] 
>>is HUGE (there are very
>>few women in the country rated higher than me and I am just a mediocre player)
>>precisely because women are forced to play in men's tournaments and lose, lose,
>>lose until they get to hate the game.
>
>I don't agree with this.  Like women who start out as weak chess players,
>I started out as a weak player (even Bobby must've been week for a few
>hours at least).  So, when I've gone to men's (regular) tourney's, I
>lose, lose, lose.  I still love the game.  And I'm still a weak player,
>last rating about 1425.
>
I have already explained that I meant truly competitive level, 2000 and up. As
of Bobby, his rating after his first tournament was in the mid 1800s.

>I happen to think you have the tournament-specific thing backwards, too:
>The Polgars shun women's events (except the Olympiad).  Of course, they
>play in Europe -- that probably changes the equation.  Pia Cramling was
>one of the first women to play mostly or solely in men's events, and 
>her rating skyrocketed past the women's world champion Maya.
>
They are just four  exceptions in the whole world, which cannot possibly prove
anything. Also, the Polgars are the most systematically trained chess players
in history and can hardly be compared with anybody else. I don't know much
about Pia Cramling.

			Sven Hauptfeld 
			sven@uchep.uchicago.edu
Xref: sparky rec.games.chess:3144 rec.games.go:955 alt.suicide.holiday:990
From: annan@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess,rec.games.go,alt.suicide.holiday
Subject: Yes, my nightmare is coming true.
Date: 10 Apr 92 02:49:21 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAXcluster

Well, it seems like we're landed with another Conservative govt. for five more
years. Over 600 seats (out of 651) and a majority of about 17 predicted.

Joke: The only good Tory is a lavatory. In fact, jI think I'll put that in my
signature, it's so funny.


Yours, disillusioned with the British electoral system (and the intelligence of
the British electorate)
-- 
James, who's going to get a witty signature as soon as he can think of one.
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: jhc@iris.uucp (James H. Coombs)
Subject: Re: Looking for improvement suggestions
Reply-To: jhc@iris.UUCP (James H. Coombs)
Organization: IRIS - Brown University
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 17:22:29 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.214208.10227@cis.uab.edu> sloan@cis.uab.edu (Kenneth Sloan) writes:
>In article <1992Apr10.181945.26728@cs.brown.edu> jhc@iris.UUCP (James H. Coombs) writes:

>>As an extreme example, Jorge Zamora went from 1900 to 2400 last year.
>>He probably did not improve that much in one year but was seriously
>>underrated to start with. 

>I see no reason to believe that he was "seriously underrated to start
>with".  You are assuming your conclusion.

Well, the alternative is that he not only Mastered the game in one year
but also Senior Mastered it.  I'm sure that Jorge is getting the best
instruction available and probably is totally dedicated to chess, but
that still seems an unlikely achievement.  Spassky said that JZ would
be a GM in three years with the proper instruction.  I don't think that
he would have said that of an ordinary 1900 player.  Lot's of
speculation here and all of that.  I just find it more reasonable to
believe that he was underrated than that he started out a 1900 player,
mastered the game, and picked up all of those points in one year.
Wouldn't just picking up 500 points be an extraordinary achievement if
he started out the year with the strength of a 2400?  Come to think of
it, there's a good chance that he started out with the strength of a
2200 and now has the strength of a 2600---the lag is likely to be
extreme in a 12-year old prodigy.

>>On the other hand, the rating system does make it unlikely that I will
>>be paired with someone who is twice as good as me. 

>Not at all!  One of the uses that ratings are put to is to "seed" the
>better players.  Go and pay your money to enter the Open section at the

Well, I mean just what you said elsewhere.  A 1500 can enter a Class C
section with the reasonable expectation of finding suitable opponents.
The people who get burned are the Experts in small tournaments with
U2000 and Open sections, where the Open section is full of 2400+.  That
can happen around here when big guns from Boston are in range of the
tournament.  A month ago, there were something like 3 Experts, 0
Masters, and 5 Senior Masters (one 2600) in a section.  I heard a
couple of Experts lamenting the situation.  I suspect that no Masters
showed up because they knew the section would be dominated by SMs.  For
the rest of us, the common 200 range in a section is pretty
comfortable.  --Jim
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: "REYNOLDS, MARK ANTHONY" <helios!physics.ucla.edu!reynolds@tssi.com>
Subject: Candidate's Matches
Organization: Chessnews list (chessnews-request@tssi.com)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 03:40:00 GMT


I would like to thank all the posters of games from
recent tournaments such as Tilburg, Reggio Emilia, and Linares.
It would be wonderful if the games of the upcoming Candidate's
Matches were given the same treatment.

The newspapers in my area (Los Angeles), while having the advantage
of Jack Peters, do not run much chess news, and absolutely no games
(other than Peters' column).  So rec.games.chess is my only source
for up-to-the-minute international games scores.  Otherwise
I must wait a few years to see the results in Chess Life.

I think that most of those who read this newsgroup agree with
me and would heartily appreciate any Candidate's games
being posted.

Thanks

Anthony Reynolds
reynolds@physics.ucla.edu

Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: helios!midway.uchicago.edu!ran9@tssi.com (M.L. Rantala)
Subject: Laser chess fonts for the Macintosh
Organization: Chessnews list (chessnews-request@tssi.com)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 14:57:49 GMT


Bill Christens-Barry writes:
>Anyone who can help me get a chess font that can be used to produce GOOD
>diagrams using a word processor running on the Mac please let me know.  
>... I have the "Cheq" font given out by Adobe, but it
>really isn't up to the fonts used in most books, magazines, columns, etc.
>...  Best would be a True Type font. 

Eric Schiller has designed the Pillsbury-Times laserfont for the Macintosh,
available from Ecological Linguistics, PO Box 15156, Washington DC 20003.

This is NOT a True Type font, but he is working on one of those, too.

M.L. Rantala
University of Chicago
From: sje@xylos.ma30.bull.com (Steven J. Edwards)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Draw offers (was Re: More Reshevsky)
Date: 16 Apr 92 18:02:14 GMT
	<1992Apr15.185125.13679@cis.uab.edu>
	<Apr.16.12.29.34.1992.16927@romulus.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: sje@xylos.ma30.bull.com
Organization: Bull HN, Worldwide Information Systems, Billerica, Mass., USA

In article <Apr.16.12.29.34.1992.16927@romulus.rutgers.edu> clong@romulus.rutgers.edu (Chris Long) writes:
# In article <1992Apr15.185125.13679@cis.uab.edu>, Kenneth Sloan writes:
#
# > I have heard (credible) stories revolving around a grandmaster(!)
# > not knowing the details of castling.
#
# I believe you are refering to Korchnoi, who didn't know if it was
# legal to castle if the rook was attacked.

	I heard a slightly more believable version of this story.  It
was queenside castling and the queen rook wasn't attacked.  Instead,
the queen knight's square was attacked and the question was whether or
not the castling rook was allowed to be moved over an attacked square.

 [The above opinions expressed are my own; not necessarily held by others.]
      == Steven J. Edwards           Bull HN Information Systems Inc. ==
      == (508) 294-3484              300 Concord Road         MS 820A ==
      == sje@xylos.ma30.bull.com     Billerica, MA 01821          USA ==
"That Government which Governs the Least, Governs Best." -- Thomas Jefferson
From: janeric@control.lth.se (Jan Eric Larsson)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Shortest GM game (was Re: Goldman analysis)
Date: 10 Apr 92 13:37:16 GMT
	<Yds=mLW00VpPEDBoNs@andrew.cmu.edu> <8084@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
	<ru96uINNifj@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: Dept. Automatic Control, Lund Inst. of Technology, Sweden


David Goldfarb writes:

>	If you don't want to look at real games, there was one between 
>Fischer and an opponent whose name escapes me. Fischer refused to play
>at the scheduled time for religious reasons; the opponent felt that the
>rescheduling was unfairly favoring Fischer. Bobby played 1. c4 and his
>opponent resigned. You'd be hard-pressed to find shorter than that.

Well, the second world championship game between Spasskij and Fisher
ended with a win for Spasskij and no moves made.

Jan Eric Larsson                  JanEric@Control.LTH.Se      +46 46 108795
Department of Automatic Control
Lund Institute of Technology     "We watched the thermocouples dance to the
Box 118, S-221 00 LUND, Sweden    spirited tunes of a high frequency band."
From: elkies@ramanujan.harvard.edu (Noam Elkies)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Anderssen - Lange, Breslau 1859 (Re: The Golden Age of Chess)
Date: 10 Apr 92 14:10:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Apr10.101007.10912
Organization: Harvard Math Department

In article <01GIMYCJ299C8X2I3V@canal.crc.uno.edu>
DCBCS@CANAL.CRC.UNO.EDU (Dennis Baker) writes:

'Adolf Anderssen - Dr. Max Lange
'Breslau 1859
'Ruy Lopez
'
'1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nd4 4.Nxd4 exd4 5.Bc4 Nf6 6.e5 d5 7.Bb3 Bg4 8.f3
'Ne4 9.O-O ("Of course 9...Qh4+ is the answer to 9.fxg4 or 9.d3" - Napier/
'Horowitz) 9...d3! 10.fxg4 Bc5+ 11.Kh1 Ng3+! ("From this point on Black's
'moves are a study in precision and polish." - Napier/Horowitz) 12.hxg3
'Qg5! 13.Rf5 h5! 14.gxh5 Qxf5 15.g4 Rxh5+!! 16.gxh5 Qe4! 17.Qf3 Qh4+ 18.Qh3
'Qe1+ 0-1 ("White resigns -- it is mate in three."  Napier/Horowitz)
'
'Sigh...  the good ol', romantic 'ol days :)

Two further tidbits about this classic miniature, from the late M.Czerniak's
booklet on the Ruy Lopez:

o This game, showing Anderssen on the receiving end of the kind of
swashbuckling play that made him so famous, was suppressed until
after his death so as not to tarnish his reputation.

o Black's sac is unsound: 10.Qe1! leaves White safely ahead.  Czerniak
comments on 7...Bg4?!: "Who would dare in modern times to sacrifice
(or rather hang) a piece like this?"

--Noam D. Elkies (elkies@zariski.harvard.edu)
  Department of Mathematics, Harvard University
From: DCBCS@CANAL.CRC.UNO.EDU (Dennis Baker)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: The Game of the Century
Date: 13 Apr 92 16:52:00 GMT

On Mon, 13 Apr 1992 07:44:34 GMT, qazqaz@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Mike Perkins)
writes:

>I recently bought a used book, All About Chess, by Horowitz.  On page
>170 in an article titled "Caissa's Prodigies" he refers to a "stunning
>masterpiece known as The Game of the Century" by thirteen year old
>Bobby Fischer.  Does anyone know the game, and if so could you send
>it to me or post it here?

Hans Kmoch's "Game of the Century":

Donald Byrne - Bobby Fischer
New York 1956
Grunfeld

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.d4 O-O 5.Bf4 d5 6.Qb3 dxc4 7.Qxc4 c6
8.e4 Nbd7 9.Rd1 Nb6 10.Qc5 Bg4 11.Bg5? Na4!! 12.Qa3 Nxc3 13.bxc3 Nxe4!!
14.Bxe7 Qb6! 15.Bc4! Nxc3 16.Bc5! Rfe8+ 17.Kf1 Be6!! 18.Bxb6 Bxc4+
19.Kg1 Ne2+! 20.Kf1 Nxd4+ 21.Kg1 Ne2+ 22.Kf1 Nc3+ 23.Kg1 axb6 24.Qb4
Ra4! 25.Qxb6 Nxd1 26.h3 Rxa2 27.Kh2 Nxf2 28.Re1 Rxe1 29.Qd8+ Bf8
30.Nxe1 Bd5 31.Nf3 Ne4 32.Qb8 b5 33.h4 h5 34.Ne5 Kg7 35.Kg1 Bc5+
36.Kf1 Ng3+ 37.Ke1 Bb4+ 38.Kd1 Bb3+ 39.Kc1 Ne2+ 40.Kb1 Nc3+ 41.Kc1
Rc2 mate

Punctuation from _Bobby Fischer's Chess Games_, Edited by Robert G. Wade
and Kevin J. O'Connell.

Dennis Baker
<DCBCS@uno.edu>

Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: Dennis Baker <helios!canal.crc.uno.edu!DCBCS@tssi.com>
Subject: Re: On the Fritz
Organization: Chessnews list (chessnews-request@tssi.com)
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1992 14:18:00 GMT


On Sun, 19 Apr 1992 00:26:46 GMT, gls@windmill.att.com (Colonel Sicherman)
writes:

>In <01GIZNSU33SW8WW47C@canal.crc.uno.edu>, helios!canal writes:
>> 
>> I took another look at the Fritz line asked about earlier.  After
>> 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 (Now this is the kind of chess I like!)
>> 4...d5 5.exd5 Nd4 (Fritz) 6.c3 b5 7.cxd4 bxc4 8.dxe5 Qxd5 9.exf6 Qxg5
>> 10.O-O, I gave one possible line as 10...Qxf6 11.Re1+ Be7 12.Qa4+ Bd7
>> 13.Qxc4 O-O, which leaves White pondering the c7 pawn grab.  However,
>> I went back and looked at 10...Bb7 (instead of 10...Qxf6).  This does
>> seem kind of interesting.  Any checks will be met by ...Kd8.  Since the
>> g-file will open, this also looks nice.  The KB will go to d6, or maybe
>> c5 with check, if a f3.  ...
>
>If it's any help, Gligoric in ECO1 cites an old correspondence game in
>which Grunfeld played 8...Q:d5.  His note ends there with a minus-over-
>plus.  I expect that the two bishops will compensate Black for any
>drawbacks in the position.  (No, I don't have Estrin's book.  I'm waiting
>for him to write one about the Caro-Kann.)

Yes, that is helpful.  Now I know Black is *supposed* to have an advantage.
So when I don't find any, I know I'm doing something wrong (either that or
Gligoric was mistaken -- then I'd spend a lot of time looking for an
advantage that doesn't exist!)  Either way I *should* discover something
about the position.  Yes, the two bishops DO look nice!

Eric Schiller told me that a lot of good analysis on this line can be found
in Zagorvsky's _Romantic Chess Openings_.  He said this analysis was based
on the analysis of Berliner, himself, combined with improvements.  He
promised to post a summary if he's reminded in a week or so.  (Do you really
have a 1500+ chess book library, Eric!?)

I recall that Estrin's book also covered all the side lines of the Fritz, like
the one being discussed.  (BTW, Estrin's dead and did he play the Caro-Kann??)

Schiller also pointed out, although he said he disliked making such sweeping
generalizations, that after 4.Ng5 White doesn't get much.  Although I agree --
White has been hard pressed of late to produce any advantage (when this line is
played at all!) -- I'm going through another one of my "romantic streaks."  I
suspect a couple of disasters on the White side of this line will cure me!? ;)

Dennis Baker
<DCBCS@uno.edu>

Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: ceblair@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Charles Blair)
Subject: Re: whether Korchnoi is deaf
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 17:49:03 GMT

   Not sure it's relevant, but somewhere in CHESS IN MY LIFE Korchnoi
describes losing a game, during which the board started shaking.  He
says there was some kind of artillery practice nearby.
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: nolan@helios.unl.edu (Michael Nolan)
Subject: Re: Chess Clocks
Reply-To: nolan@helios.unl.edu
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Date: 13 Apr 92 03:26:15 GMT

rdubbs@cs.tamu.edu (Roger B. Dubbs III) writes:

>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:

There are two types of chess clocks.  One is essentially two wind-up
clock faces in a box, with two push buttons which stop one clock while
starting the other.  (One for each side, obviously.)  The other is a digital
mechanism with a pair of displays and buttons or switches which perform
like the buttons on the analog clock.  Analog clocks are set to any desired
time of day, with a flag which falls as the minute hand passes the hour.
Digital clocks generally count down.

>a) What maximum time limits do they generally have?

It varies from one competition to another, from a minimum of a few minutes
to as much as two or three hours for the first time period.  (For example,
forty moves in 2 1/2 hours.)

>b) Do the times reset after each move, or can total time per player
>   be tracked as well?

Basically they track elapsed time, where as much or as little (of the
remaining time) can be used for any one move.

>c) What direction do the clocks run, forward or back?

Analog clocks run like regular clocks, digital clocks generally count
down.

BTW, I've been told that aside from chess players and other game players
(like scrabble players), lawyers are the next largest group of customers for
chess clocks.  They use them to make sure both sides get equal time during
depositions.

>On a related note: 
>d) Are there absolute time limits imposed?

Again, it varies from competition to competition.

>e) Is there any standard penalty for going over a time limit?

Yes, the penalty for overstepping the time limit is loss of the game.
(In unusual cases it may be only a draw, if the other side does not have
any material with which checkmate could be produced.)

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

I've seen one, but it was rather crude, and I don't know where to get it.
Perhaps others on the net can help here.  This would be a fun program
for two networked systems, if such a beast exists.
---
Michael Nolan
nolan@helios.unl.edu, nolan@tssi.com
<<< dis.sigfectant Ver 1.0b1: remove the .sig virus from your .sig NOW!!
From: u855ops12@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Chess Servers
Date: 13 Apr 92 07:36:35 GMT
Organization: The University of Melbourne



   I am intrigued by the regular mention of chess servers but I'm
not sure how one goes about getting access to one. Do you have to
organise a logonD or what??

   I'd be very grateful if someone could let me know.

  Thanks in advance,

Patrick Blanchard.

U855ops12@hermes.ucs.unimelb.edu.au
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: rudis+@CS.CMU.EDU (Rujith S DeSilva)
Subject: Re: 50 out of 100?
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 19:05:57 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University

In article <1992Apr16.180234.5960@cs.brown.edu>, jhc@iris.uucp (James H. Coombs)
writes:
|> Ok, so what did I miss?  The probability of 1 head out of one toss is
|> 1/2.  What is the probability of 50 heads out of 100?  I'm afraid that
|> I would have to review the theory before I could give an answer, but my
|> recollection was that the probability of 1/2 heads starts to approach 1
|> as the number of tosses increases.

No, the expected fractional deviation from (n/2) heads decreases.

The probability of getting 50 heads from 100 tosses is:
(100!)/(((50!)^2)*(2^100))
= 12611418068195524166851562157/158456325028528675187087900672
= 0.0795891 approximately.

Isn't LISP wonderful?

Now for an ObJoke ... damn, all the jokes I know have come off this group, so no
point repeating them!

Rujith de Silva.
Carnegie-Mellon University.
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: nolan@helios.unl.edu (Michael Nolan)
Subject: Re: More Reshevsky
Reply-To: nolan@helios.unl.edu
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Date: 15 Apr 92 16:43:42 GMT

mwj@beta.lanl.gov (William Johnson) writes:

>Sometimes I wonder why high-level chess hasn't adopted a signaling system for
>reducing draw-offer shenanigans -- something like the bidding cards used in
>tournament bridge or backgammon's doubling cube.  One hears enough bizarre
>stories involving draw offers that it might be worth some prophylaxis.

In fact, International Arbiters Eric Schiller and Carol Jarecki have proposed
such a method.  Carol was talking about using it at last year's U. S. Women's
Championship, but I never heard whether it was used or how well it worked.
(Carol is on the FIDE Rules Commission, so you don't get much closer to the
source for having it proposed for use in international events.)
---
Michael Nolan
nolan@helios.unl.edu, nolan@tssi.com
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: bright@my-sun.cs.jhu.edu (Jonathan Bright)
Subject: Re: Playing with the deaf (was Re: Re whether Korchnoi is deaf)
Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 21:03:26 GMT

perlman@qso.Colorado.EDU (perlman eric) writes:

>Being non-disabled, it would disturb me greatly to see any chessplayer,
>disabled or not, refuse to or have qualms about playing a disabled
>player.  Indeed, my numerous tournament and match games with Ruben, who
>I mentioned above, were thoroughly challenging and enjoyable.

Back in high school I went to a local club where a man with
a very serious neurological disorder occasionally played,
and I felt uncomfortable playing him.  

To tell me his moves he had to bash his hand with his fingers
extended onto a board that had letters and numbers printed
on it.  It would take him several tries to get the move that
he wanted.  This is such an unnatural action for a hand that
it was hard to imagine it not causing him pain, or at the very
least not causing some sort of damage to his fingers and hand.

I think that it would have been easier for me to feel comfortable
if he could have tried to point out his moves with the fleshy part
of his fist instead of his fingers, or in any other way that
wouldn't seem painful to someone who hadn't had a lot of contact
with people with his condition before.

I think that chess is a wonderful hobby for severely disabled people.
But perhaps the moral of my story is that a very simple change
can make others feel less tense around a severely disabled person.

-----
Jonathan David Bright -- bright@cs.jhu.edu