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From: Mark Ginsburg <mginsbur@rnd.stern.nyu.edu>
Subject: sigh - cja awards
Organization: Chessnews list (chessnews-request@tssi.com)
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 05:28:48 GMT


I just had the misfortune to read Bruce Leverett's post.

I beg the readers to read the actual article which won the award!
Only then can we talk about it.

It's not character assassination to question why the author omitted
key losses in the variation.  It's (in my opinion) rather quite normal
to ask this question.  Please, please read the Cozio article before
questioning what I am saying!  Recall for now that the authors 
claimed the Cozio is equal - and I strongly disagree.

For now, I will give this hint.

I believe, that after

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nge7 4. Nc3!  both tries for black, which
the co-author Walter Shipman has tried against M. Rohde 4...g6 and
4...Ng6 lead to a slight disadvantage for black.

That's all I need to prove and I intend to do so - with Rohde's help.

Rather than use the term 'intellectual dishonesty' why don't we leave
the speculations of why the authors omitted the losses out of this.

I am just stating that the article in no way, shape, or form deserved
first place in the CJA ballots.  I feel its conclusions were
poorly derived, with grossly misleading evidence.  OK?  OK.

-Mark

p.s.  Let's not argue about semantics - let's argue about chess moves
and variations.  THe Cozio is not about personalities - and I don't think
it's equal.  That's the bottom line in my view.  And again, I feel badly
for the overworked/underpaid judges.

Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: jhc@m2lll.uucp (James H. Coombs)
Subject: Re: "GRANDMASTER CHESS" for PC
Reply-To: jhc@iris.brown.edu.UUCP (James H. Coombs)
Organization: IRIS - Brown University
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:10:04 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.122359.6664@bcars6a8.bnr.ca> rcurrie@bnr.ca writes:

>I recently saw a game called Grandmaster Chess, for MSDOS PC's in a
>local computer store. It claims to be able to beat Chessmaster
3000 and Sargon.

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
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: "lisa powell" <lisa.powell@canrem.com>
Subject: fischer
Reply-To: "lisa powell" <lisa.powell@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: rec
Date: 15 Sep 92 13:55:35 EST

It is not easy to understand the dynamics of the F-S match from a
great distance. But it *does* seem to me that Fischer is playing
elaborate mind games with Spassky, who is IMO a pitiful shell of his
former self. What seemed to me at first a most exciting event has now
deteriorated into an unfunny farce.

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From: sloan@cis.uab.edu (Kenneth Sloan)
Subject: Re: fischer-spassky
Organization: CIS, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 23:26:31 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.224734.21830@leland.Stanford.EDU> dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen) writes:
>...
>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.

Now now...go back and find out how one R.J. Fischer got to play in a
Interzonal without even competing in the qualifying Zonal tournament.

When your team does this sort of thing, it's considered "making sure we
are properly represented".  When the other side stoops to the same low
tactics, it's called "cheating".

Another Olympics example can be found in the selection of the US Men's
4x100 relay team.  Traditionally, the first 4 finishers in the 100 meter
trials make up the 4x100 relay team.  But, not this year.  For some
reason, the coach wanted the man who's anchored more relay records than
any other human on his team, running the anchor leg.

Seems reasonable to me.

-- 
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Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: obele@diogenes.uni-passau.de (Harry Obele)
Subject: Game 6 ... WHEN???
Organization: University of Passau, Germany
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 15:57:59 GMT

Well, I just want to know when they play the next match.
--
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: fischer-spassky
From: fry@zariski.harvard.edu (David Fry)
Date: 11 Sep 92 15:35:53 EDT
Organization: Harvard Math Department

In article <BuEBGz.2Bq@world.std.com> ekw@world.std.com (Elliott C Winslow) writes:
>Jennie Simon, Publicity Director here at the USCF, and a member of the chuch
>mentioned, notes that she has heard that in fact, Fischer never was a
>member; he attended services for a while, and gave some money, but never
>joined the church.  This is the sort of distinction to go the wayside
>quickly.

I don't know if he ever became a card-carrying member of the Church,
but he observed its holidays and religious practices for more
than a decade, talked to his friends about it, donated tens of
thousands of dollars to it, and reportedly was wined and dined by high 
Church officials after the 1972 match.  I've talked to Church members
who do *not* deny his involvement.  I submit it's irrelevant if he
"joined" the church, whatever that means.

I absolutely agree that Fischer's views on the world have *nothing* to
do with Church beliefs, and in no way should the Church be held
accountable for his behaviour.  But it's also silly for the Church or
its members to deny his interest more than 15 years ago in an attempt
to distance themselves from him.

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: jhc@m2lll.uucp (James H. Coombs)
Subject: Re: Prononciation Of Names
Reply-To: jhc@m2lll.UUCP (James H. Coombs)
Organization: IRIS - Brown University
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 22:41:17 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.074543.7403@midway.uchicago.edu> hau4@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <65640@cup.portal.com> wms@cup.portal.com (W Mark Schneider) writes:

>>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.

That's exactly correct.  Those sounds are extra linguistic.  They have
nothing to do with one's language.  That's why babies can laugh and cry
right from birth, and they don't have to wait until they learn a
language.  --Jim
From: wms@cup.portal.com (W Mark Schneider)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Prononciation Of Names
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 19:13:03 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Sep10.174809.4181@cv.ruu.nl>

And how do you pronounce Euwe as in Dr. Max Euwe?

I saw him once in the late '70s giving a simultaneous at the 
Paul Mason Vineyards in California.  He must have been in his
seventies also.  It was quite remarkable watching him circle
in the hot sun, wearing an old straw hat, as he bested the 
20 or 30 who faced him.  He played a computer program--which
one I couldn't say--and lost a piece and then won the game, 
saying after that the computer would play nine good moves and
one bad one.  He opined that it was better to make ten mediocre
moves.

Spassky also played a simultaneous that day, but refused to play
the computer, telling the organizers--rather disingenuously I
thought--that he was afraid of the machine.  He professed great
affection for Bobby in the question and answer period that followed.

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.

Mark
wms@cup.portal.com
From: wmtecp@rw9.urc.tue.nl (C. van der Poel)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: 5th game  (result)
Date: 9 Sep 92 20:50:30 GMT
Reply-To: wmtecp@urc.tue.nl
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Fischer lost 5th game (no details).

Carel
From: fry@zariski.harvard.edu (David Fry)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: F-S II game 5 moves 1-33
Date: 9 Sep 92 19:06:54 GMT
Organization: Harvard Math Department


   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  
   21. Rc1 Qf6  
   22. Rb1 b4  
   23. Ne2 Qe7  
   24. a3 bxa3  
   25. Bc3 f5  
   26. Bxg7 Qxg7  
   27. Nf4 fxe4  
   28. Nh4 g5  
   29. Ne6 Qf6  
   30. Qg4 Nxd5  
   31. Nxg5 hxg5  
   32. Qxd7 Nb4  
   33. Qxb7 Nxc2 
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: cat@wixer.cactus.org (Dr. Cat)
Subject: Second Round
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 17:02:34 GMT


   Just thought I'd post a quick note on the second game: A draw was agreed
to after 60 moves.  Fischer had a rook, knight and three pawns to Spassky's
two bishops and three pawns at one point, but Spassky's king was more
centralized, and Fischer's was too far away from the action.  I'll try to
post the score of the game later today.
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: davidson@cs.ubc.ca (Mark Davidson)
Subject: Re: Chessmaster 3000 - questions
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 20:56:25 GMT

dguerrer@lyra.cel.scg.hac.com (Dan Guerrero) writes:

>In article <1992Sep12.102502.42926@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>>I'm an intermediate player and like my Chessmaster 3000 from Software
>>Toolworks.  Two problems:
>>
>>a) I'd really like to get rid of the annoying 15-20 second wait for
>>the fancy artwork to go away before it gets to the playing board--any

>I think you can press the RETURN or ENTER key without waiting 15-20 seconds
>and it will immediately take you to the playing board.  

A better solution is to run the program with CM.EXE rather than CM3000.COM
which runs TITLE.EXE before CM.EXE.



--
Mark Davidson                  | Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowlege?
davidson@cs.ubc.ca             | Where is the knowlege we have lost in 
University of British Columbia | information? 
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From: exudtn@exu.ericsson.se (Derek Nelson, xt-dL)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Rating of Radio Shack 1650
Date: 15 Sep 92 19:41:48 GMT
Reply-To: exudtn@exu.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.

What is Sargon rated at?  Of the PC based chess games which is the best? They all
claim to have beaten the other.
From: 9121940f@lux.latrobe.edu.au (Anthony S. Miller)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Intriguing thought on Fischer-Spassky match
Date: 6 Sep 92 05:09:35 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University

In article <1992Sep3.202350.21698@samba.oit.unc.edu> Scott.Maxwell@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Scott Maxwell) writes:
>
>	Reading an account of Fischer's news conference, wherein he
>claimed that the K-K matches were "fixed," I had an idea: what if the
>*Fischer-Spassky* match is fixed? (Wouldn't *you* rig a chess game for a
>few million bucks?) I'm not accusing anyone, of course, but think about
>it ....
>
>--
>Scott Maxwell (Scott.Maxwell@bbs.oit.unc.edu)
>--
>   The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
>     North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
>        Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
>           internet:  bbs.oit.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80

Has anyone considered the possibility of Fischer retiring again after this
match?

================================================================================
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9121940f@lux.latrobe.edu.au

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From: moffe@daimi.aau.dk (Morten Lauritsen)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: F - S game 2 please HELP ME
Summary: game 2 is gone!
Date: 12 Sep 92 13:05:15 GMT
Distribution: rec.games.chess
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark


 Help Help Help!!!
  I'm the unfortunate one!!!

I seem to have lost all there is to loose about the 2nd game, (Which is actually
just the move list). 
Could somebody please mail me the moves and perhaps some comments? (on the game!)

PLEASE??

Morten
From: ralf@cs.uq.oz.au (Ralf Muhlberger)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Fischer-Spasskij game 1 -- clarification
Date: 6 Sep 92 22:34:54 GMT
Reply-To: ralf@cs.uq.oz.au

In <10181@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> I write:

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

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

[moved deleted]

>>30. Be4 f5  31. Bc2 Bd5  32. ab5 ab5  33. Ra7 Ra8  34. Nbd2 Ra7  35.  Ra7 Ra8
>                                               ^^^
>What did Spasskij do here? When I replay the game up to move 33, there is
>already a rook there. It has not moved yet.

Thanks to several people now, I've been informed that the actual move
was 
          33. Ra7 Kf6

>>36. g4! hg4  37. hg4 Ra7  38. Qa7 f4  39. Bf4! ef4  40. Nh4! Bf7  41.  Qd4 Ke6
>                                                                            ^^^
>And here, I have the black King on g7 (from move 28). How did he get to e6?

Which also clears up this problem.

[more moves deleted]

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

Thanks for clearing that up for me. Much appreciated.

Thanks,

Ralf

-----Ralf Muhlberger-----(ralf@cs.uq.oz.au)-----University of Queensland------
I wonder if other people can hear voices in their head. I certainly can. I can
hear one now. It's saying: "I wonder if other people can hear voices in ... "
From: s9874203@titan.ucc.umass.edu (s9874203)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: notation.
Date: 13 Sep 92 14:12:30 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

In article <92256.135708RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu> RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu writes:
>hey there.  i am not a non-stop, all-out chess player; thus, until i started
>reading this conference, i thought that "english descriptive notation" or
>whatever was THE notation.  i'd like to know what the advantage of
>"d4 d5" is over "p-q4 p-q4".  the latter seems eminently more readable, and
>i don't see what one notation over another is for, if not readablility.
>
>thanks.

One reason is that q doesn't stand for queen in all languages. For this
reason (and possibly other reasons), algebraic notation is better than
descriptive notation.
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: jonas@beor.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Josef Nelissen)
Subject: Re: WHAT'S WITH BOBBY?!?!?!?!
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen
Date: 11 Sep 92 10:45:28 GMT

t89par@tdb.uu.se (Par Svensson) writes:

>schoof@dec8.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de (Jochen "Joscho" Schoof) writes:

>: underestimated Fischer in the first games, but now he knows he can not
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>Actually never thought I'd live to see anybody do this.
>Sic transit gloria mundi.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

WOW!!!! Culture hasn't gone away on the net ;-)

Josef

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Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: palane@iastate.edu (Paul A. Lane)
Subject: Re: Fischer-Spassky - Game 4 - the mistake
Keywords: New World Champion
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 22:47:27 GMT

In <1992Sep7.170901@IASTATE.EDU> haefner@IASTATE.EDU (Ralph I Haefner) writes:

>In article <palane.715900547@vincent2.iastate.edu>, palane@iastate.edu 
>(Paul A. Lane) writes:

>> A battle does not make a war, a game does not make a match, an olive does 
>>not make a martini . . .

>Once again my fellow cyclone is way off the mark.  The point is that Fischer
>wants to be considered World Champion.  For this to be legitimate he would
>have to play Kasparov.  And the only way to force Kasparov into playing him
>is to so decisively defeat Spassky that there is no question Fischer deserves
>the shot.  The current score  +1 -1 =2 does nothing to show Fischer is 
>deserving of a chance to play Kasparov.

>Ralph

Jane, you stinking slut... (sorry, I couldn't remember Jane's usual retort)

Just kidding folks. I was (lightly) referring to one game all is not yet lost.

Paul
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: mox@vpnet.chi.il.us (William Moxley)
Subject: Re: Kasparov vs. Letterman 1990
Organization: Vpnet Public Access
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 01:12:19 GMT

In article <9209091924.AA25383@econ.berkeley.edu> jeff@econ.Berkeley.EDU (Jeffrey C. Ely) writes:
>
>During the '90 World Championship match, Kasparov played a correspondence game 
>against David Letterman on Late Night.  Does anybody have the moves to that
>game?

I don';t have that game, but would love to get it.  During this match
Kasparov supposedly never used a board.

		William Moxley
		mox@vpnet.chi.il.us

Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: jhc@ivan.uucp (James H. Coombs)
Subject: QGAs in Fischer-Spassky? missed one
Reply-To: jhc@iris.brown.edu.uucp (James H. Coombs)
Organization: IRIS - Brown University
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:28:02 GMT

As I understand it, Fischer and Spassky have played two QGAs.  I have
the second, Game 6, but I missed the first QGA.  Could someone send me
the moves?  Thanks.  --Jim
From: hwr@intercal.com (Hanon W. Russell)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Review, Chess Chow, June-July 1992
Date: 7 Sep 92 03:57:28 GMT
Organization: Chessnews list (chessnews-request@tssi.com)


                            CHESS CHOW
                         June-July, 1992

This issue (which is in fact the most recent issue) of "Chess 
Chow" is a bit late in being reviewed for the simple reason that 
we did not receive it to review until just a few days ago. Under 
normal circumstances we would not bother, but in view of the 
fact that a subsequent issue has not yet appeared, and this is 
well worth reviewing, we realize that this is a dirty job but 
someone has to do it (just kidding, boys!).

American GM and Chief Editor Joel Benjamin kicks this issue off 
with a detailed look at the St. Martin tournament, which is now 
becoming a regular fixture on the international tournament 
circuit each May. He then goes on to complete his coverage of 
the Najdorf International. Taken together, these two articles 
occupy almost one-half of the forty-eight page issue.

He also has a lengthy look at the Manhattan Chess Club 
championship. These reports are betwixt and between irreverently 
annotated games presented by IM Mark Ginsburg as well as short 
satirical pieces (sometimes good, sometimes not) on a variety of 
subjects which seem to haphazardly catch the fancy of the 
writers and editors.

The type of reporting which this publication is attempting to 
produce is not easily done. To paraphrase the children's rhyme, 
when it's good, it is very, very good, when it's bad, it's 
banal. Overall, this is an entertaining issue.

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From: fry@tara.harvard.edu (David Fry)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: F-S II game 8 moves 1-12
Date: 13 Sep 92 15:17:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Sep13.111710.15556
Distribution: world
Organization: Harvard Math Department


Game 8 got underway today. The word is at Spassky is feeling ill and
considered a postponement.  Both players looked weary.  AP reports
that only a dozen journalists remain at the site, mainly from
Yugoslavian newspapers or chess magazines.  The audience is described
as "sparse."

   Spassky Fischer
   (White) (Black)
   1. d4 Nf6
   2. c4 g6
   3. Nc3 Bg7
   4. e4 d6
   5. f3 0-0
   6. Be3 Nc6
   7. Nge2 a6
   8. Qd2 Rb8
   9. h4 h5
   10. Bh6 e5
   11. Bxg7 Kxg7
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: sdyck@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Sheldon Dyck)
Subject: Which is the best chess program for a PC?
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 03:32:46 GMT

I am interested in buying a chess program for my 386sx. I've narrowed
my choices down to either Chess Master 3000 or Grand Master Chess.
Has anyone played these two games, and if so which is the better 
program? Thank you.


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From: phr@soda.berkeley.edu (Paul Rubin)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Spassky wins game 4
Date: 9 Sep 92 10:09:54
Organization: CSUA/UCB
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu
In-reply-to: arc5@chempc1.york.ac.uk's message of Tue, 8 Sep 1992 11:04:39 GMT

In article <arc5.54.715950279@chempc1.york.ac.uk> arc5@chempc1.york.ac.uk (Alastair Cargill) writes:

   According to my database which is supposed to have all of Fischers
   games this is the first time he has played any form of Queens
   Gambit. Perhaps this was bad planning on his part or was it just an
   attempt to avoid playing the same line twice aka 1972

You need to get your database repaired.  Start by entering game 6 of
the 1972 world championship, considered to be one of Fischer's best
games.  Fischer freaked the whole world out by playing a QGD as
*white*.