HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: juffi@ai.univie.ac.at (Johannes Fuernkranz)
Subject: Interview with Fischer's girl-friend
Organization: Dept. Med.Cybernetics & Artif.Intelligence, Univ.Vienna, Austria, Europe
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 11:10:47 GMT

All secrets revealed! They are not engaged! She didn't beat him yet!

The German Schach Magazin 64 reports using material from the French Europe D'Echecs:
(Translation attempted by myself)

Q: How did you meet Bobby?
A: I've heard about him for the first time when I read a Hungarian book about his
   chess career. Later I read his '60 memorable games'. At that time I decided to
   contact him and wrote to the USCF (!!!!!) who sent me a P.O.Box number. I wrote
   to Bobby... and he answered! We had a long correspondense and later on started
   to call each other.
Q: When did you meet him in person?
A: Last April, I spent 9 weeks in California.
Q: Did you stay with Fischer?
A: No, but we went to San Francisco together.
Q: But Bobby is the man of your life!???
A: (laughs) No... He's my favorite player!
Q: No marriage in sight?
A: Not at all.
Q: What is Fischer's best quality?
A: His honesty.
Q: And his biggest fault?
A: No..., I don't see any.
Q: Did you play chess together?
A: Oh sure, a lot of quick games...
Q: With a common chess clock?
A: No, with Bobby's clock, the one they are using for the match here (F-S II).
Q: Bobby once said he could give knight odds to any woman. Did he give you knight odds?
A: No, I wouldn't have accepted that... But I didn't win a single game!
Q: Did Bobby prepare you for your championship? (Probably the hungarian girl's 
   championship, which she won, obviously without Judith's participation)
A: No, but we analyzed together.
Q: It is said that is your merit that Bobby returned to tournament chess. How did
   this happen?
A: Bobby told me that he would like to play again, therfore I called Janos Kubat
   (the director of the 1990 olympics in Novi Sad), shortly before he left for Manila.
   And he contacted Mr. Vasiljevic.
Q: Does Bobby have a good relationship to Jezdimir Vasiljevic?
A: Of course, he's sponsoring the match after all...
Q: Let's talk about you some more: At what age did you start to play chess?
A: With 8. My father being a strong amateur showed me the basics.
Q: Can you show us some games from your last championship?
A: Better not... They are bad.
Q: And still you have won the title. You will now participate in the girl's world
   championship in Argentina. To gain the title?
A: I hope so. But it will be very difficult.

She had 2.5 after 4 rounds.

					Juffi
 
-- 
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Austrian Research Inst. for Artificial Intelligence    +43-1-5320652(Fax)
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--------------- "Life is too short for Chess." -- Byron -----------------
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: hwr@intercal.com (Hanon W. Russell)
Subject: This Week In Chess History
Organization: Chessnews list (chessnews-request@tssi.com)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:15:26 GMT


                       THIS WEEK IN CHESS HISTORY
                          November 12-18, 1992

November 12
1850 - Mikhail Chigorin born
1933 - Borislav Ivkov born
1934 - Leonid Stein born
1946 - Hanka Radzewska born
1979 - Gavriil Vereson died
1981 - Herman Pilnik died

November 13
1933 - B. Gurgenidze born

November 14
1931 - John Curdo born

November 15
1907 - Al Horowitz born

November 16
1926 - Alexei Suetin born
1975 - Karel Opocensky died

November 17
1971 - Michael Adams born

November 18
1916 - Miguel Cuellar born

Copyright 1992 Hanon W. Russell
All Rights Reserved
From: wp01jst1@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (John Tomas)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Fischer-Polgar Match
Date: 9 Nov 92 22:04:41 GMT


How well would F had done at 16 against Polgar at 16?  Remember that
at age 16 he was a Candidate: certainly one of the 10 best players in
the world.  I suspect that he would have crushed Polgar at 16.
From: 1-5054@wwiv (Walter Wood #1 @5054)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Once rated, always rated?
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 92 18:59:15 GMT

  [Reply To] Re: Once rated, always rated?                               
[Written By] ekw#world.std.com (Elliott C Winslow) @511


> The USCF has rating supplements
>back to the beginning of ELO-time.  And there are certainly the annuals, if
>the bimonthly supplements are somehow not there (which I think, they are).
> 
>So this would just be a question of doing the work...
> 
>--elliott
>  Elliott Winslow IM
>  ekw@world.std.com
>  Assistant Editor
>  Chess Life USCF


Does the USCF staff provide rating information upon request?
I want to know the last published rating of a player who has been retired for the past ten years.  Do I just drop a postcard to USCF and ask?  Is the ratings database computerized or do they have to search through old "annual supplements"?

Walter Wood  1@5054  WWIV net
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Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: Joseph Albert <albert@papyrus.hpl.hp.com>
Subject: FNCF
Organization: Chessnews list (chessnews-request@tssi.com)
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 21:11:40 GMT




>Subject: MASTER RATING LISTING FNCF November seventh update e-mail
                                     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

this is the stuff i am referring to,

Joseph Albert
From: hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu (sven  hauptfeld)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Kasparov - Fischer
Keywords: match Kasparov Fischer WM?
Date: 6 Nov 92 19:59:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: midway.1992Nov6.195905.16829
Reply-To: hau4@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <1992Nov6.110346.23859@cs.ruu.nl> xawemmer@cs.ruu.nl (Xander Wemmers) writes:
>Hot news!
>
>
>The Dutch television reported after the end of Fischer-Spassky II that
>Kasparov declared himself willing to play Fischer.
>

It is not such hot news. According to Chess Life (the notorious source of
stale news), Kasparov would have nothing against a match with Fischer, 
provided it is played "for clean money, in a normal country."

	Sven
From: epstein@rene.ma.utexas.edu (Paul Epstein)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Should women's tournaments exist?
Date: 13 Nov 92 01:07:34 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: University of Texas at Austin Mathematics

This is an important question which I haven't seen discussed in this group.
My opinion is that they perpetuate the harmful and untrue notion that
women can't compete with men on equal terms, and that they prevent more
women from being world class chess players by encouraging them to play against
each other rather than against the world's best.
Significantly, the best women seem to have consistently avoided women's
competitions.

Is anybody prepared to defend the continued existence of the women's world
championship cycle and other women's competitions?  I get the impression that
they are being phased out, and  I think that the continued success of Judit
Polgar will accelerate this process.
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: Bruce_Harper@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Harper)
Subject: Re: Fischer's strength
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:46:02 GMT

Sven Hauptfeld writes (among other things, all knocking Fischer):

Seirawan will say anything to keep his idol sacred, but the truth is:
...

It's too bad this wasn't posted a day sooner, as Yasser was in this very room
and he could have responded himself.  I know Yasser thinks Fischer played
well in many of the games and that Fischer remains a factor in world chess.
Since now Seirawan's judgment (or integrity?) is under attack, can we have
the ratings (or just international titles would be sufficient) of his critic?

This certainly seems fair, since we're talking about assessing chess strength
- a skill which is surely related to the strength of the person doing the
assessing.  Or are we speaking about being a critic, where the best critics
know the least about the subject?

So, Sven, pick one or the other:

a) Rating and titles:
b) Critic (no chess expertise required):

Bruce Harper 2350 FM (retired - but so was Bobby...)
From: linb@ucs.orst.edu (Benjamin Lin)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: cowboy crushes scratchy on ics
Date: 12 Nov 92 01:02:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.BxKw8J.HvF
Organization: University Computing Services - OSU

[  It seems that there haven't been many games on reg.games.chess
   recently, so I thought I would post cowboy's recent crush of
   scratchy!  good job cowboy! ] 

[       cowboy                 scratchy      ]

1       P/c2-c3 (0:05)         P/e7-e5 (0:27)
2       P/d2-d4 (0:02)         P/e5-d4 (0:20)
3       P/c3-d4 (0:03)         N/g8-f6 (0:14)
4       N/b1-c3 (0:02)         B/f8-b4 (0:17)
5       P/a2-a3 (0:10)         B/b4-c3 (0:12)
6       P/b2-c3 (0:04)         o-o (0:16)
7       N/g1-f3 (0:02)         R/f8-e8 (0:16)
8       P/e2-e3 (0:04)         P/c7-c5 (0:17)
9       B/f1-e2 (0:14)         Q/d8-a5 (0:17)
10      o-o (0:25)             N/f6-e4 (0:18)
11      B/c1-d2 (0:15)         N/e4-c3 (0:18)
12      B/d2-c3 (0:22)         Q/a5-c3 (0:02)
13      B/e2-d3 (0:24)         P/c5-c4 (0:16)
14      B/d3-h7 (1:22)         K/g8-h7 (0:18)
15      N/f3-g5 (0:02)         K/h7-g6 (1:32)
16      Q/d1-g4 (1:01)         P/f7-f5 (0:31)
17      Q/g4-g3 (1:38)         Q/c3-a5 (1:39)
18      Q/g3-d6 (0:56)         K/g6-g5 (0:09)
19      P/f2-f4 (0:15)         K/g5-h5 (1:13)
20      R/f1-f3 (1:21)         Q/a5-a6 (0:17)

[ does 20...Re6 (jgold's move) lose too? ]

21      R/f3-h3 (0:19)         K/h5-g4 (0:44)
22      R/h3-g3 (1:22)         K/g4-h4 (0:12)
23      Q/d6-d5 (0:54)         R/e8-e3 (0:08)
24      R/g3-e3 (0:13)

[ I didn't get the rest of the game, but it didn't last too much longer. ]
[ scratchy did a computer check :-) ]

[-benoni]
From: Ralph Dumain <rdumain@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Date: 08 Nov 92 09:49 PST
Subject: CHESS VARIANTS AND GAMES REFERENCE 
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1451600057:000:764
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!rdumain    Nov  8 09:49:00 1992


From: Ralph Dumain <rdumain>
Subject: CHESS VARIANTS AND GAMES REFERENCE FOLLOWUP

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be found in ordinary bookstores and newsstands and is in fact
known only to a small number of people through word of mouth,
though it is the best (and only) publication of its kind in the
U.S.A.  This is because the U.S., unlike some European countries,
has a small market for board games of skill (as opposed to fantasy
and role-playing games, battle simulations, word games, trivia
games, etc.).  Hopefully, all of the issues are still obtainable.
They are wonderful.  A recent special issue on chess variations is
a must-have.  Contact:  Michael Keller, 3367-I North Chatham Road,
Ellicott City, MD 21042, U.S.A.

Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu (sven  hauptfeld)
Subject: Re: Fischer's strength
Reply-To: hau4@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 23:06:11 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.193205.13617@stsci.edu> henry@stsci.edu (Ron Henry) writes:
>Most WC matches have their share of blunders.  I can see the same critics
>ridiculing the play in the 1972 match, which was widely acclaimed to be one
>of the highest-quality and most exciting of all time:
>
>[tabloid titles deleted]
>
>I'm not trying to argue that Fischer is still WC caliber, only that it's
>unfair to dismiss his potential based on the Spassky match.
                       ~~~~~~~~~
I think his potential has been proven long, long ago. But he is not 13 anymore
and it makes no sense to speak of his potential. 

>  Two points need
>to be made.  First, Fischer is a player who is willing to go much farther
>than most GMs in taking risks to win.

This match has shown that it might not be so anymore - or that he just
didn't need to take any risks to beat Spassky, which is even worse.

>  When this works it is called 
>"brilliant", when it fails it looks foolish (re games 1 and 11 of the '72 
>match).

Game 1 ('72) was a game in which Fischer made a lot of good moves and one
worst blunder of his career. Game 11 was a masterpiece by Spassky and a TN
if I remember well.

>  Second, as Seirawan notes in Inside Chess, the match was being 
>played with no adjournments, neither player likely has the stamina for 8-hour 
>playing sessions, and one can't compare the over-the-board play in the later 
>stages of such games (such as the two where Fischer missed "easy" technical 
>wins in the ending) to the results of marathon analysis by teams of GMs or 
>computers (which is how top-level matches are still being played, although 
>that will probably change within a few years).

Seirawan will say anything to keep his idol sacred, but the truth is:
1) most blunders in the match were made in fairly early stages;
2) most tournaments are played with no adjournments nowdays, so it is
   not difficult to compare...

	Sven
From: fry@tara.harvard.edu (David Fry)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: F-S II Wrap-Up
Date: 7 Nov 92 10:15:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Nov7.051533.17196
Distribution: world
Organization: Harvard Math Department

>                                From anecdotal evidence I've heard 
>from many sources, I'm sure I'm not alone and I think Spassky is 
>right, this is god for chess.                                         
                ^^^

This typo is NOT intended to start the Fischer-as-deity debate anew!

David Fry                                  fry@math.harvard.edu
Division of Applied Sciences               fry@huma1.bitnet
Harvard University                      ...!harvard!huma1!fry
Cambridge, MA  02138            
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: mzabel@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mark A Zabel)
Subject: Re: Results of Ratings Survey...
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 18:41:20 GMT

In article <1ddas4INNhct@cascade.cs.ubc.ca> kvdoel@cs.ubc.ca (Kees van den Doel
) writes:
>
>I confess, that was me. It's been a long time that I studied games seriously,
>but I do remember playing over a very famous Lasker game where he had white
>and plays the Bird opening (1.f4..., or by transposition, I forget) and wins
>in great  attacking style involving a double bishop sacrifice. This game
>reminded me of that.
>If someone reading this knows the game please let me know, just so that
>I know that I am not hallucinating!
>
>--Kees

Lasker-Bauer / Amsterdam 1889

-Mark
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: gilmozzi@stsci.edu (Roberto Gilmozzi)
Subject: Re: Where did they get these names?
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16:55:36 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.160353.13676@u.washington.edu> jph@stein.u.washington.edu (Jeff Hanson) writes:
>In article <1992Nov5.032458.25528@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> doli@troi.cc.rochester.edu (David Oliver) writes:
[...]
>>1)Giucco Piano - 1. e4 e5  2. Nf3 Nc6  3. Bc4 Bc5
    ^^^^^^
>sometimes called the Giucco Pianissimo, or very quiet game.
                      ^^^^^^
You might as well spell it correctly. It's "Giuoco", an old form of
the contemporary "Gioco" (pronounced JO-k-o).

Roberto
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: mzabel@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mark A Zabel)
Subject: Re: Unsound Sacrifices (was Some Other Long Title)
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:58:31 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.233834.22767@midway.uchicago.edu> hau4@midway.uchicago.ed
u writes:
>In article <1992Nov10.121130.8021@maths.nott.ac.uk> anw@maths.nott.ac.uk (Dr A
. N. Walker) writes:

>>   Yes, he beat all the weak players,
>> by playing unsound sacrifices.
>
>Being refuted after several days of analysis doesn't make a sacrifice
>unsound.

     What????!!!?!?!?  That's ridiculous.  The fact that a sacrifice
is refuted most certainly does mean that it is unsound, period.

-Mark

p.s.  It doesn't mean that Tal's chess playing was
      any less brilliant, or that his sacrifices
      weren't any good.
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: kees@cv.ruu.nl (Kees de Graaf)
Subject: Re: Chessfonts in TEX?
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 08:56:34 GMT
Organization: University of Utrecht, 3D Computer Vision Research Group
Keywords: Chessfonts, TEX

In <Bx7D4G.9JE@news.orst.edu> linb@ucs.orst.edu (Benjamin Lin) writes:

| In article <1992Nov4.084901.8566@cv.ruu.nl> kees@cv.ruu.nl (Kees de Graaf) writes:
| >Piet Tutelaer's chess macros are available by anon ftp from sol.cs.ruu.nl,
| >in directory /pub/TEX, files chess12.README and chess12.tar.Z (or
| >chess12.zoo). The first paragraph of the readme file reads:
| >
| >I'm myself a happy user of these macros (both under OzTeX on Macintosh
| >and under LaTeX on Unix): I can heartily recommend this package!
| >
| >-- Kees de Graaf, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, kees@cv.ruu.nl
| 
| How do I get OzTeX for Mac?  How can these fonts be used on IBM?
| -benoni

Concerning your second question, I know nothing about IBM or MSDOS,
I'm afraid (am glad to, in fact ;-).
Concerning your first, from the FAQ of comp.text.tex:

" 7) What is OzTeX and where can I get it (TeX for the Mac)?
" 
"    OzTeX is a public domain version of TeX for the Macintosh. A DVI
"    Previewer and PostScript driver are also included. It should run on
"    any Macintosh Plus, SE, II, or newer model, but will not work on a
"    128K or 512K Mac. It was written by Andrew Trevorrow, and is available
"    via anonymous ftp from from midway.uchicago.edu (128.135.12.73) in
"    ./pub/OzTeX, which contains other public domain TeX-related software
"    for the Mac as well, or on a floppy disk from TUG (see question 11).
"    Questions about OzTeX may be directed to oztex@midway.uchicago.edu.

Hope this is of any help.

-- Kees de Graaf, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, kees@cv.ruu.nl
 "Genug des Stumpfsinns! Remis!" - Teichmann
From: hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu (sven  hauptfeld)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Unsound Sacrifices (was Some Other Long Title)
Date: 12 Nov 92 22:24:34 GMT
Reply-To: hau4@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <1992Nov12.200151.25471@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> mzabel@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mark A Zabel) writes:
>
>I certainly didn't mean to insult Tal by saying that his sacs
>were unsound.  In fact, he agreed that many of them were,
>though I'm sure he didn't think so at the time he made them.
>Somebody (maybe you?) said that no Wchampion became so by
>making unsound moves.  I would argue that they all did.
>
>-Mark
>
>I'm sure I'll be hearing from you soon enough.

Well, we seem to agree on everything except the exact definition of the term
"[un]sound sacrifice", and I don't feel like splitting hairs.

	Sven
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: sloan@cis.uab.edu (Kenneth Sloan)
Subject: Re: funky pairings
Organization: CIS, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 00:34:21 GMT

In article <BxKpB4.Exv@news.orst.edu> linb@ucs.orst.edu (Benjamin Lin) writes:
>In article <palane.721514387@pv7412.vincent.iastate.edu> palane@iastate.edu (Paul A. Lane) writes:
>>
>>What would be interesting is to have a tournament with standard pairings
>>up until the last round and match the contenders in each class against each
>>other. Otherwise, you wind up circling each other's boards like vultures.
>>
>
>In class pairings do NOT work.  These were tried a while ago in my area
>and things got messed up when 2 class C players played eachother in round 5.
>One of them ended up with 4/5 which probably tied for second place if I
>remember correctly.

I think the TD screwed up.  As I read the rulebook, players who are
given class pairings ought not be elegible for the open $$.  To forstall
nit-picking, the rulebook is a tad vague about this.  Go and read it,
and decide for yourself.


-- 
Kenneth Sloan                   Computer and Information Sciences
sloan@cis.uab.edu               University of Alabama at Birmingham
(205) 934-2213                  115A Campbell Hall, UAB Station 
(205) 934-5473 FAX              Birmingham, AL 35294-1170
From: jhs@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (John Stanback)
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 18:08:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Chess MIPS
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess

In rec.games.chess, Teri A Meyers <tasst2+@pitt.edu> writes:

> 
> I notice in the semi-monthly chess FAQ there is the usual discussion about
> how to calculate the chess MIPS for different computers, and then extrapolate
> that to rating differences for chess software running on different machines.
> Unfortunately, there are a few details left out and the author of the FAQ
> doesn't have the answers, so I wonder if anyone here knows.  I wonder whether
> math coprocessors have a significant impact on chess MIPS or ratings for 386
> machines running programs like Zarkov 2.6 or M-chess.  Also, does the SX vs
> DX difference make any difference for these programs or 
> applications like chess databases?  Since I am considering purchasing new
> hardware, I wonder how to compare say, a 386sx33Mhz,  and
> 486sx20Mhz?  If anyone has quantifications or just general info, it would
> be appreciated.
> Jerry Meyers

 None of the PC chess programs that I'm aware of make any use of
 a math co-processor.  My experience is that 386-DX machines are
 considerably faster than 386-SX machines since they have a 32 bit
 bus and usually have a cache memory.  Zarkov, for example, runs more
 than twice as fast on a 386-DX33 as on a 386-SX20.  A 486-DX33 is about
 twice as fast as a 386-DX33.  I think that a 486-SX20 would be about
 22% faster than a 386-DX33 although I don't have any experience with either
 of these processors.

 John Stanback
From: J.Theodore.Schuerzinger@dartmouth.edu (J. Theodore Schuerzinger)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Best player never to win the World Championship
Date: 5 Nov 92 22:35:19 GMT
 <92302.205011A735FJO@HASARA11.BITNET> 
 <1992Oct29.195956.12934@midway.uchicago.edu>  
 <1992Nov5.152457.25196@gdr.bath.ac.uk>
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
X-Posted-From: InterNews1.0a5@newshost.dartmouth.edu

Not all the British chess columns say this is Short's time to win.  I
believe Leonard Barden in the Manchester Guardian Weekly said that
should Short beat Timman, he would have the least consistent record of
anybody to play in a championship match since Yefim (NOT Ewfim)
Bogolyubov in the 1930's.

I think Short will win anyhow, but that is just my personal opinion. 
(Not to get into a ratings discussion with Ken Sloan! :-) )

--Ted Schuerzinger
email: .zed@Dartmouth.EDU
"I should have realized it would be bad vodka when all the label said
was 'Russian Vodka'."
From: BRYAN@wvnvm.wvnet.edu (Jerry Bryan)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: 22d Annual ACM International Chess Championship
Date: 9 Nov 92 15:56:24 GMT

My November Communications of the ACM just came.  There is an
article entitled The 22d Annual ACM International Computer Chess
Championship.  The authors are Danny Kopec, Monty Newborn, and Mike Valvo.

The tournament was won by Deep Thought II.  I found the most interesting
game to be one between MEPHISTO and LACHEX.  MEPHISTO won by under-
promoting a pawn.  I quote from the article.

  MEPHISTO must have used one of its nine lives in its game with
  LACHEX.  LACHEX was never programmed for under-promotion and
  got hit with a knight promotion accompanied by a double check.
  Bert Wendroff never programmed under-promotion because "... it
  never came up."  Last night he left before the game was over and
  was greeted with a phone call:  "It came up."

I would be happy to post some of the games from the article if anybody
is interested.
From: ekw@world.std.com (Elliott C Winslow)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Schedule for 1992 US Championship?
Summary: Round Robin (all-play-all)
Date: 12 Nov 92 23:30:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: world.BxMMMx.Gnp
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA

In article <1992Nov12.200226.14958@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
J.Theodore.Schuerzinger@dartmouth.edu (J. Theodore Schuerzinger) writes:
>Is the Championship going to be the real format, or another knockout
>tournament?

round-robin -- it *has* to be, for the zonal factor.

--elliott
  Elliott Winslow IM
  ekw@world.std.com
  Assistant Editor
  Chess Life USCF
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