HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: pope@gold.kpc.com (John Pope)
Subject: Re: Chess Bits #14, a little late
Organization: /nfs/gold/u/home/pope/.organization
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:33:03 GMT

Looks like the "Q&A" section had the "Q" but no "A", so:


>  	LN Dunn		LN Dockery
> 1.	d4		Nf6
> 2.	Nf3		d5
> 3.	e3		e5

?? loses a pawn for nothing.

> 4.	de		Ne4
> 5.	Bd3		Bf5
> 6.	O-O		g5
> 7.	Nbd2		g4
> 8.	Nh4

?? 8.Nd4 should be played.

> 8.... c6

?? 8...Qh4 wins a piece, this drops one.
	
> 9.	Nxf5		Nxd2
> 10.	Bxd2		Be7
> 11.	Qxg4		Nd7
> 12.	Ng7+

12.Qg7 followed by 13.f4 was better. Now White has to worry about the
e-pawn and the N getting pinned with ...Rg8. This is just a relative
fine point though - white is still easily winning.

> 12...	Kf8
> 13.	e4		Nxe5
> 14.	Ne6+

? 14.Qg3 holding onto the piece is better.

> 14...fe
> 15.	Bh6+		Kh8

I assume this is 15...Ke8, not Kh8...

> 16.	Qh5+

16.Qe6 snarfs a pawn and keeps black from running to the queenside.

> 16...Nf7
> 17.	Bg7		Rg8
> 18.	Qxh7		Kd7
> 19.	ed		cd
> 20.	Bb5+		Kc8
> 21.	Rac1		Ng5
> 22.	Qg6

?? with 22.Qh6, white is still totally winning, since he's up two
pawns and black's K is exposed. 22.Qg6 gives away a piece and 
now white should lose.

> 22...Bf8
> 23.	f4		Bc5

?? 23...Rg7 wins the piece for nothing.

> 24.	Kh1		Qe7
> 25.	fg		Rxg7 [ and now its downhill ]

On the contrary, white is now winning again.

> 26.	Qh5

26.Qf6 Rg5 27.Qe7 Be7 28.Rf7 is also winning for white.

> 26...Rxg5
> 27.	Qh8+		Qd8
> 28.	Qh7		a6
> 29.	h4

?? 29.Bd3 was correct.

> 29...ab

?? 29...Rg4, threatening ...Rh4 and ...ab wins for black.

> 30.	hg		Qxg5
>  
> and 0-1 soon.  What did White do wrong?  How did the initiative get 
> lost, or is it that white really never had anything?

Er, why was it 0-1 soon?!? White does have to deal with the threat of
...Ra4 and ...Rh4+, but Black *is* down the exchange with an exposed
King. A sample variation: 31.Rce1 Ra4 32.Qh8 Kc7 (32...Kd7 33.Rf7 Be7
34.Rh7 and white should win) 33.Rf7 Kb6 34.Re6 Ka7 35.Rb7! Kb7 36.Qh7
Kc8 37.Re8 Qd8 38.Rd8 and wins.

--
John Pope
pope@kpc.com
Kubota Pacific Computers, Inc.
(408) 987-3362
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: ron@osf.org (Ron Birnbaum)
Subject: Re: Fischer-Polgar Match
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 17:10:31 GMT

----------------

In article <1992Nov06.020928.5446@crash>, uzun@crash.cts.com (Roger Uzun) writes:
|> I agree, Fischer will probably win 8-4 or perhaps 7-5 over Polgar.

  On the contrary - I like Judit's chances in a match vs. Fischer. Her youth 
and stamina should be a major advantage in a match where no adjournments are
allowed. Perhaps in a traditional match with adjournments and the standard
clock I'd favor Fischer - but with the Fischer clock I don't think Fischer is
in the kind of shape he'd need to be in to win over a strong, young opponent.

|> But how well would Fischer have done against Polgar when he
|> was 16?? 

  Not too well - Polgar wasn't born yet! ;-)

|> She should keep improving, given her age.

  Indeed!


-Ron Birnbaum
From: fsmgs@camelot.acf-lab.alaska.edu (Michael Schmahl [Black-Robe Mage])
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Once rated, not always rated.
Date: 10 Nov 92 02:29:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: raven.1992Nov10.022913.11971
Organization: University of Alaska Computer Network

ed r baker writes
> What would result in a higher rating:
> 
> 1) Using one's old rating from 8th grade (based on two tournaments), or
> 
> 2) Starting afresh as if one was never rated?
> 
> Assume that one is a much better chess player now than in 8th grade.  What
> is the difference in USCF rating points, if the current level is X?

They would both eventually result in the same rating, but the latter would converge  
much more quickly, assuming an increase in strength since 8th grade.
--
The secretary says he's on another line.  
Can I hold for a long, long time?   -TMBG
Michael Schmahl a.k.a. Black-Robe Mage
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Friday, 13 Nov 1992 21:18:52 CST
From: <U36846@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: USCF Membership
Distribution: world

Tom,
 The number for membership to USCF is 1-800-388-5464.
       Larry Keating
From: title@think.com (Richard Title)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: F-S II game 30 moves 1-19
Date: 5 Nov 1992 22:45:39 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: hespera.think.com

Looks like an exciting game. What do people think of Spassky's
Knight sac at move 18?

I'm looking at the position after move 19 and I can't see that Spassky
gets enough for the piece. It will take Spassky some time to get his
Q and QR into the attack, and meanwhile Fischer can just move his 
K to the h file and his R to the g file to defend...
E.g., 20.ed Kh7 21.Bd4 Rg8, and now how does White make progress?
What am I missing?

  Rich
From: J.Theodore.Schuerzinger@dartmouth.edu (J. Theodore Schuerzinger)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: novice question
Date: 12 Nov 92 17:24:50 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
X-Posted-From: InterNews1.0a5@newshost.dartmouth.edu

Joe Micozzi writes about the following opening:

1. e4 e5 2. f3 c6 3. b5 (??!)

I'm not a very high-rated player, but isn't this move illegal?  And is
it really that good anyhow?  :-)

4. a4 f6(?)

Why?  I don't think I can recall a single e4 opening in which the
f-pawn gets pushed like this so early.  You'd think more masters would
play 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f6, for example, if it were a sound opening.

5. 0-0 (??!)

Another illegal move, I believe.  :-)

I don't know what opening has you so confused, Mr. Micozzi, but for
some reason I don't think it's this one.  Perhaps you could check the
moves and repost it.

--Ted Schuerzinger
email: .zed@Dartmouth.EDU
Class C player -- "In Russia, we don't have ratings like that!"
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: hafner@ifi.unizh.ch (Michel Hafner)
Subject: Computer WM?
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 10:16:10 GMT

As far as I know the computer chess world championship is due this month. 
Can anyone provide more information? ( Participants, SW, HW, dates... ).
								M.H.
From: dtb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (David Burr)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Fischer history
Date: 10 Nov 92 17:45:31 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Florida CIS Dept.




I'm doing research on chess-playing algorithms and would like
to test a theory on a current chess game.  I have the source
code for gnu chess and would like to get the source for other
chess programs.

If anyone knows where I can get the source code, please post
a message or send me mail.

========================================================================
    David T. Burr                                Home:   (904) 372-4255
    dtb@cis.ufl.edu                              Office: (904) 392-9579
    Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences
    University of Florida, USA
========================================================================
From: carsten@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Computer WM?
Date: 5 Nov 92 18:50:40 GMT
Reply-To: carsten@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
NNTP-Posting-Host: nexts.math.tu-berlin.de

In article <1992Nov5.101610.537@ifi.unizh.ch: hafner@ifi.unizh.ch (Michel  
Hafner) writes:
 
: The 7th World Computer-Chess Championship will be held in
: Madrid (Spain), November 23-27, 1992.
: 
: 
: Participants:
: 
: Centaur          (Russia)
: Chess Genius 1.0 (UK/Germany)
: Cumulus          (France)
: Echec            (France)
: Hiarcs           (UK)
: Kasparov         (USA)
: Lachex           (USA)
: M-Chess          (USA)
: Mirage           (CIS ?)
: Nightmare        (Germany)
: Nimzo            (Austria)
: Pandix           (Hungary)
: Prochess         (Netherlands)
: Rebel            (Netherlands)
: Risc 2500        (Netherlands)
: Ulysses          (Germany)
: Woodpusher 2     (UK)
: Zugzwang         (Germany)
: 
: Notice the absence of some of the 'regulars', although
: B*-Hitech (USA) and Fritz (Germany) may yet enter.


Where are programs like 'Deep Thought','Mephisto' and 'Cray Blitz'?
Is there a separation between mainframes and micro computers?


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                            Fachbereich Mathematik
		            Funktionalanalysis/Numerische Mathematik

E-mail : krause@math.tu-berlin.de
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: mem@world.std.com (Jeff Lesser)
Subject: Re: Searching for Bobby Fischer
Keywords: movie, chess, waitzkin, bobby fischer
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 23:55:16 GMT

jhl28500@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jae Hyung Lim) writes:


>Hi,

>Just saw today on television about a new movie coming out based on the book
>_Searching_for_Bobby_Fischer_ by Fred Waitzkin.  I know that the fellow
>playing Josh is not primarily a professional actor, and that he plays chess,
>but know little else (who stars etc.)  If anyone has information about this
>I was wondering if they could post it here.

>thanks

>jae lim (jhl28500@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu)


I've heard that Ben Kingsley, the guy who played Gandhi, will be in this film.
 

Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: rezkmah@ducvax.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: ****ALEKHINE'S DEATH****
Organization: Auburn University, AL
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 05:50:58 GMT

 In article <1992Nov8.193045.4746@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, ctepedel@nyx.cs.du.edu (cihan tepedelenlioglu) writes:
> 	Does anyone know the reason of Alekhine's death.?(brief question)
> 
To my knowledge he choked while having dinner !!

Thanks;
Mahmoud
From: jordan@aero.org (Larry M. Jordan)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Fischer - Polgar/Kasparov update
Date: 12 Nov 1992 18:21:50 GMT
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: uniblab.aero.org

>Kasparov said Fischer needs to adjust to the new developments in 
>chess in the last 20 years.

What, pray tell, are these 'new developments'?

--Larry %)

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From: hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu (sven  hauptfeld)
Subject: Re: Gaprindashvilli's strength (was re: Fishcer with odds)
Reply-To: hau4@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:50:11 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.053956.6261@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> J.Theodore.Schuerzinger@dartmouth.edu (J. Theodore Schuerzinger) writes:
>Technically, didn't Gaprindashvili become a Grandmaster when she won
>the Women's World Championship?

No. She automatically became (Men's) International Master.

	Sven
From: tl@tools.de (Thomas Lewerenz)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Davis-Fedorowicz, U.S. Open, Round 1, Atlanta, 1980
Date: 10 Nov 92 10:19:28 GMT
Organization: TooLs GmbH, Bonn, Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: fred.tools.de
In-reply-to: qazqaz@Muir.Stanford.EDU's message of Sun, 8 Nov 1992 22:04:21 GMT

In article <1992Nov8.220421.27440@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> qazqaz@Muir.Stanford.EDU (Mike Perkins) writes:
   Recently someone posted this game which reached this position after 23.Bf6!:

    -----------------------
   |          q* r* b* k*   |8     The game continued 23. ... Bc5+ 24.Kf1 Bf2
   |    b*          p* p* p*|7     25.Bf7+ Kf8 26.Qh7 gf 27.Bg6  1 - 0
   |    p*       p* B       |6
   |          p*       P  B |5     I don't see what would happen after 
   |       p*       P     Q |4     23. ... gf6
   |    P     P           R |3
   |          r*          P |2     I looked and looked and don't see the catch.
   |       R           K    |1     Can anyone help me?
    ------------------------
     a  b  c  d  e  f  g  h

>   mike perkins

After 23....gxf6 24.gxf6 White will mate in a few moves, e.g.
24....Kh8 25.Bxf7 (h6  26.Qxh6 Bxh6 27.Rxh6#)
24....h6 25.Qg4+ Kh7 26.Bxf7 (Bc5+ 27.Kf1 Rg8 28.Rxh6+ Kxh6 29.Qh5#)
24....Dc7 (to protect f7) 25.Be2! h6 26.Qg4+ Kh7 27.Rg3

Hope this helps, Thomas
From: mapmef@gdr.bath.ac.uk (M E Fletcher)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Best player never to win the World Championship
Date: 5 Nov 92 15:24:57 GMT
Organization: School of Mathematics, University of Bath, UK

In the referenced article, hau4@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <92302.205011A735FJO@HASARA11.BITNET> <A735FJO@HASARA11.BITNET> writes:
>>How come nobody mentions Jan Timman?
>> 
>>For a fair amount of years he ranked #3 , after Karpov and
>>Kasparov.  For more then a decade he was titled "Best of the Rest",
>>and "Best of the West".
>
>I think he was #3 after Karpov and Korchnoi for some time, too. But did his 
>#3 ranking last significantly longer than Andersson's, Ljubojevic's, 
>Sokolov's, Yusupov's or Gel'fand's? All of these were #3 at some point, but
>were hardly considered "best of the rest" by anybody outside their family.
>(for example, Andrei Sokolov, the Candidates' finalist in '87 - lost to Karpov
>- and still young, about the same age as Kasparov - is not even the best
>Sokolov in the world now /Ivan Sokolov from Bosnia is better/).
>
>	Sven


You seem to be talking about Jan Timman as if he were dead! Failing to
point out that just a little match with Short stands between him and a
world championship match with Kasparov seems a bit unfair. I hope
Short will win but Timman's chances are at least 40% 

Curiously all the English magazines that I've seen comment on Short-Timman say:
"Well, Timman is very strong, good match player but this is Short's time, his
big chance, he must win"  whereas the one Dutch magazine I've seen says
"Well, Short is very strong, good match player but this is Jan's big
chance ... etc"

[Of course neither of them has the remotest chance against Kasparov.]

Matt
From: gordons@CS.ColoState.EDU (vahl scott gordon)
Subject: FS-II Fischer Wins!
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 18:21:19 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University

Prodigy has just reported that Fischer won game 30 and the match.
It was a Saemisch and Spassky blundered in an attacking position.
They gave the moves but ARRRGHHH there was an error at about move
15 in their notation and I found it impossible to play through the
game.

Sorry.

Scott

Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: mccarthy@glacier.Stanford.EDU (Anthony McCarthy)
Subject: Re: F-S II game 29 -- comment/analysis
Organization: Center for Integrated Systems, Stanford University, California
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 18:13:51 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.003756.16109@fcom.cc.utah.edu> reeve@mail.physics.utah.edu (mark reeve) writes:
>I find it difficult to understand why Fischer did not play
>19. Bd5 instead of 19. e*d6 which landed him in hot water a 
>few moves later. After 19. Bd5 I can't see anything better 
>than 19. ... B*d5 20. Q*d5 Ng5 21. N*g5 Q*g5 22. Q*d6 winning
>a clear pawn. It's true that White might have some difficulty
>developing the N on b1, but certainly White has the advantage.
>
>Has anyone else looked at this line? Am I missing something 
>obvious? 
>
>  Mark Reeve
>
>  

The N on b1 is not a small problem.
After 22. .. Rad8 White has a very hard time hanging onto the pawn.
(e.g. 23. Nd2 Ne5 24. Qe5 Rd2 25. Qg5 hg5 26. Re5 f6 27. Rc5 Rb2 is
not worse for black)
so 23. Qc7 may be a suitable move for white. I prefer black in this
position

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Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: xxjames@utagraph.uta.edu (Mr. James W. Stewart)
Subject: 3-D Chess
Organization: University of Texas at Arlington
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 19:03:04 GMT


I am looking for information about the 3-D chess sets as seen on Star
Trek the Next Generation.  Where to find them, how to play....  If you
know of other 3-D chess games, please, let me know!  Thank you!

James :-)

jstewart@acsnovell1.uta.edu
From: connors@drutx.ATT.COM (ConnorsPA)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Chessbase file format?
Date: 12 Nov 92 05:51:29 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO

I have heard that someone in England has managed to independently crack
the commercial ChessBase proprietary database format. (Apparently, he
was impressed with the fact that it took him *two* evenings to crack,
since most such schemes take one evening!) Now he is able to print out
the entire contents of any ChessBase database (without using ChessBase
itself of course!). Or conversely, turn games and annotations into
the ChessBase format.

I told him that I believed that the ChessBase formats were already well
documented. Does anyone know that for a fact, or give me a pointer to
some documentation?

Paul Connors
------------
Date: Saturday, 7 Nov 1992 13:44:27 EST
From: <RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess,
Subject: a question and a complaint.

hi there.  i'm a player of middling skill.  recently, i've renewed
my interest in chess.  one of the things that i'm doing is playing
a bunch against my computer.  i have a question: should i play against
the hardest level, no matter how bad it kicks my butt, or should i
play against the easiest level, until i can consistently beat it,
and then move on to the next level?  (another question - how consistent
is "consistent"?)

now a complaint.  i recently set up the computer's board with kbn v k,
and let the computer play against itself.  it wasn't able to mate in
50 moves.  surely the algorithm wouldn't take up too much space! i
mean, people can remember it.

bob vesterman.



Newsgroups: rec.games.chess,gnu.chess
From: collins@eol.ists.ca (Mike Collins)
Subject: Re: All the Chess Programs for PC
Organization: Earth Observations Laboratory, ISTS
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 18:56:15 GMT

i notice in the chess-faq that the strength of gnu-chess varies widely
with the machine on which it has been compiled. are there any rating
figures at all? how does it compare to commercial programs?

mjc

-- 
michael collins
institute for space and terrestrial science
toronto, canada M3J 3K1
collins@eol.ists.ca
From: sdonalds@cs.strath.ac.uk (Scott W Donaldson)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Could someone repost FS games 29 and 30 ?
Date: 12 Nov 92 11:59:46 GMT
Organization: University of Strathclyde

Hello,

The local News server was offline when the last 2 Fischer-Spassky
games were posted to the net.  Could someone post them / or email them
to me (Standard notation please).

*         *        *

Incidentally (to save the Net cost of another posting),
if anyone would like to play a few email games with me, please
contact to make arrangements.

I'm a 1670 standard player (1770USCF) through lack of practise time,
and play to a few hundred points higher. 

Thanks.

Scott
  ~


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sdonalds@cs.strath.ac.uk             "Free the mind
------------------------              and you can achieve
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From: sloan@cis.uab.edu (Kenneth Sloan)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Gaprindashvilli's strength (was re: Fishcer with odds)
Date: 12 Nov 92 00:17:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: cis.1992Nov12.001740.812
Organization: CIS, University of Alabama at Birmingham

In article <BxKFq0.n2o@cs.dal.ca> hyde@cs.dal.ca (Bill Hyde) writes:
>
>
>	I suspect that those who peg Gaprindashvilli's strength at
>	2300 are underestimating her ability at the time by about
>	100 points.  Perhaps someone with a copy of Dr. Elo's book
>	could settle that point.

Elo's book has only one reference to Gaprindashvili in the index, and
it leads merely to the following report on her 1980 match with
Ioseliani:

               Players                    Higher-Rated Player
Year    (Higher-Rated First)       D   N   P   We   W    W-We (sigma)
1980    Gaprindashvili-Ioseliani  65  14  .59  8.3  7.0  -1.3  1.8

which says that she performed 1.8 std deviations below the expectation
calculated by Elo's system.  Neither rating is given, only that the two
players started 65 points apart.  Gaprindashvili was expected to score
59%, but in fact scored only 50%

Looking in the list of International Titleholders, we find:
 
                        Country of              Title   Best 5-yr  Rating
Titleholder           Birth/Residence   Dates  and Date  Average   1-1-86
Gaprindashvili, Nona   Soviet Union   1941-     GM-80     2420      2330

So, in 1986,  GM Gaprindashvili was past her prime, rated a mere 2330
after recording a career peak (5-yr average) of 2420.

Elo examines many factors in chess skill, including genetics, location
of birth, etc. - but not gender.  He briefly mentions WGM and IGM
titles, in the context of describing the method of achieving GM and IM
titles, but otherwise does not deal with Women-only chess.

Sorry, no hint as to Nona's strength in (what year again? I've
forgotten).  My guess, based on the above is that she peaked at 2450
circa 1980.  Anyone have FIDE lists from 1972-1980?

-- 
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: jarmo@cs.tut.fi (Sorvari Jarmo)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: The ICS rating system (was Re: Why I Hate the ICS rating system.)
Date: 9 Nov 92 13:12:20
Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland.
Distribution: world
	<1992Nov4.192606.10822@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1992Nov5.064711.6013@hsr.no>
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In-reply-to: onar@hsr.no's message of Thu, 5 Nov 1992 06:47:11 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.064711.6013@hsr.no> onar@hsr.no (Onar Aam) writes:

   It sounds reasonable enough but you missed a little point. In your very first
   game the server treats you as if you are rated to 1000. This does not affect your
   own rating since that follows the "+/- 400 thing" BUT your opponent is affected
   by it. 

How about if the opponents of novices would not be affected at all?
So that after 20 games, new players would enter the pool with a more
realistic approximation (based on the +/- 400 rule) of their strength
than just bringing in 1000 rating points automatically (even master
class players).

I don't think new players would find it difficult to find opponent
willing to play them.


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Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: linb@ucs.orst.edu (Benjamin Lin)
Subject: funky pairings
Organization: University Computing Services - OSU
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:08:04 GMT

The recent Great Pumpkin Open (GPO) was the funniest tournament I
have ever played in.  In the open section, there were 13 players in
a 5 round swiss!  The highest rated player was 2575 and the lowest
player was 1493.  After losing my first 2 games, I won my third
round game and then got a full point bye in the fourth round!  The
idea is to give FPB's to players who have no points.  You're not
supposed to get it after winning a game.  In round 4, a 1900 player
missed a mate in 2 versus a master!  In round 5, a player with 4 
points was paired against a player with 2 points!  In my fifth round
game, my opponent let me check-mate him, so I ended up splitting the U2000
prize.  The FPB sure helped :-)  There seemed to be a whole bunch of
blunders in this tournament...

-benoni
    
  
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