HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: Udo.Sprute@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Udo Sprute)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: How to get the Fischer-Spassky moves:
Date: 14 Sep 92 01:53:29 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

How to get the Fischer-Spassky-files
(and some related things):


David Fry gets the moves relatively fast
and he does us the kindness to append them
immediately to his ~/.plan file.


So most of the people living in a UNIX environment
can get the newest moves simply by typing:

    finger fry@math.harvard.edu

Lasy people can automize it by writing (par example)

    finger fry@math.harvard.edu | sed "1,/^Plan:/ d"

into a file in their PATH, changing its mode to executable by

    chmod 755 <filename>

and appending the filename to their .profile (for sh and ksh)
or .login (for csh).

I've done so and every time I login
I see the current state of the Fischer-Spassky match.

---

For the unhappy people who don't live in a UNIX environment
or with lazy system administrators who don't have implemented
fingering other hosts, there's a substitution:

    telnet math.harvard.edu 79
    fry

79 is the "port number" which is used by the finger command.

This may work on nearly every system with internet connection.
The worst case I can imagine is that the telnet command may
have another name (perhaps "tn" or so ...).
Ask the advanced guy sitting next to you.

---

The completed games are stored under
anonymous@valkyries.andrew.cmu.edu:/pub/chess/Fischer-Spassky-92 .
That's the same host which also acts as Internet Chess Server.
Type

    ftp valkyries.andrew.cmu.edu
    anonymous
    <your internet address>
    cd pub/chess/Fischer-Spassky-92
    dir
    ascii
    mget *
    bye

to get all of them or a few "get <name>" to get only some of them.

---

UNIX people have the opportunity of reading them immediately
without copying them by typing "get <name> |cat".

There are also some interesting free computer chess programs
and information files elsewhere under pub/chess.

If you have a free chess program,
Upload it !!  (or give me a mail)

Have a look at pub/chess/misc/chess-faq.9209.. !
That file answers Frequently Asked Questions about chess.

To transfer packed or executable files you should
say 'binary' instead of 'ascii' to inhibit character substitution
during file transfer.

As above, the ftp command can be substituted.

    telnet valkyries.andrew.cmu.edu 21
    user anonymous
    pass <internet address>
    ...

is possible instead. But it becomes a bit more complicated.

---

And if you haven't done it before, try

    telnet valkyries.andrew.cmu.edu 5000

once to have a look at the Internet Chess Server (ICS).

---

Hope that was something new and usable for at least a few of you,

Udo Sprute (sprute@unibi.HRZ.Uni-Bielefeld.DE)
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Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: bwatkins@nyx.cs.du.edu (The God of all machines)
Subject: Re: Fischer not among top players anymore
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 23:20:03 GMT


Fischer is entitled to free entry into the US closed anytime he wants it,
by playing in any rated tournament in the USA to reactivate his rating, 
though I'm sure they would not force him to play in some weekend
swiss to get the invitation.....The problem (he might just want to play
in a US championship, he still considers himself an american and always
played in US championships in his pervious withdrawls) is that the
US will probably not let him.  If he comes back to this country, the
government wants to put him in jail for about 10 to 30 years.

Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: gls@windmill.ATT.COM (the Blind Pig)
Subject: Re: Lissizyn gambit
Organization: F. K. Dingy & Son
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 16:01:18 GMT

In <17lodeINNc6r@iraul1.ira.uka.de>, preiss@i31s15.ira.uka.de writes:
> 
|> |> > |> > 1. Nf3 f5
|> |> > |> > 2. e4  fe
|> |> > |> > 3. Ng5 d5
|> |> > |> > 4. d3  Qd6
|> |> >  5. dxe4  h6
|> |> >  6. Qh5+  g6
|> |> >  7. Qh4   Bg7
|> |> >  8. Nf3   +=/=
> 
>   Nesis gives 
>   8.  ..    dxe4  ( 8... Bf6 9. e5 Bx35 10. Bd3 +/- )

That's all very well, but I don't see the win.  Does White have a crush
here or is Nesis waving his hands?

-:-
	Once a student asked the master Zoku: "Is the Buddha-nature
	  simple or complex?"
	Zoku replied, "It is complex--so complex that you can never
	  comprehend it."
	The student then said, "I do not believe you.  Who are you,
	  anyway?  I never heard of you."
	Of course not.  There never was any such master as Zoku.

			--Reader's Digest Treasury of Monk Jokes
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
gls@windmill.att.COM
From: v5875bza@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Michael M Gorman Jr)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: chess by email
Date: 5 Sep 92 00:49:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


Someone posted a while back that he was setting up pairings for
email chess.  I wrote to someone about it, but to the wrong
person (duh).  

Email chess organizer, who are you?

Sorry.

MG
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: ron@osf.org (Ron Birnbaum)
Subject: Re: Kasparov vs. Letterman 1990
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 16:35:38 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.011219.20666@vpnet.chi.il.us>, mox@vpnet.chi.il.us (William Moxley) writes:
|> 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.

  Gosh folks - the game is a total waste of time! Letterman played like a 
  600 (USCF or FIDE) player!! The game was BORING! Don't bother looking at the
  game unless you want to see some horrible chess. Of course Kasparov didn't 
  need a board to wipe out such a weak player. Neither did he need pieces!

-Ron
From: watsonb@alcohol.ecn.purdue.edu (Bradley S Watson)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: FIDE cycle
Date: 9 Sep 92 17:59:47 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network


>You say that the FIDE cycle admits all who wish to enter.  You are wrong.
>I recieved no invitation.  If the greatest chess player in the world
>were my next door neighbor, and he tried to get into the cycle, what
>would happen?  They would laugh and ignore him.  I see no at-large
>tournments offering even one berth.  You must be well-connected in
>your own country to get into a zonal.

If the winner of the US Open is an American, he gets an automatic 
invitation to next year's US Championship.  So, in the year before
the years that the US Championship is a Zonal, the US Open is an at-large
tournament offering a berth into the cycle.  

I believe the US Junior Champion and the previous year's Grand Prix 
winner (if he's an American) also get automatic invitations.  The 
remaining berths are filled according to rating, being "well-connected"
has nothing to do with it.  

>                                        After that, the interzonal and
>final matches are all a matter of winning _every_ game.  Easy, but
>much, much easier if you're well connected and don't have to.

Of course you don't have to win every game.  You don't even have to 
win your zonal and interzonal.  The top 3 finishers in the zonal advance
to the interzonals, and the top 7 (or maybe 6?) from the interzonals
advance to the canidates matches.

Bradley
From: v5875bza@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Michael M Gorman Jr)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: <None>
Date: 9 Sep 92 15:24:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Sep9.181149.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au>, stcak@cc.newcastle.edu.au writes...
>I was wondering if anybody could send me a computer chess game. . . . 

I presume we're only talking about public domain (etc.) software.
Pirating most software is illegal and unethical.

MG
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: oleg@watson.ibm.com (Oleg Vishnepolsky)
Subject: Re: F-S #6  complete moves
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 13:25:18 GMT
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.11 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: oleg@watson.ibm.com (Oleg Vishnepolsky)
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

In  <koPwqB1w164w@wharf>  ben@wharf.UUCP (Bob Fischer) writes:
> I haven't seen this posted yet, so my apologies if it is a repeat!
>                                                            -rjf
> ...
>
> +--+       ben%wharf@canal.org                 | yes, Bob Fischer        +--+
> +--+--+    uunet!cbmvax!gvlv2!lock60!wharf!ben | is my real name!     +--+--+
>    +--+--+                                     | No,               +--+--+
> Aiko  +--+ Fisherman's Wharf BBS (215)383-7245 | I'm just a phish  +--+  aikO

Bobby, is that you ? Or is this a joke ?
From: ralf@cs.uq.oz.au (Ralf Muhlberger)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Fischer-Spasskij game 1 -- clarification
Summary: F-S II, game 1 - clarification
Date: 6 Sep 92 21:15:28 GMT
Reply-To: ralf@cs.uq.oz.au

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.

>1. e4 e5  2. Nf3 Nc6  3. Bb5 a6  4. Ba4 Nf6  5. O-O Be7  6. Re1 b5  7.  Bb3
>O-O  8. c3 d6  9. h3 Nb8  10. d4 Nbd7  11. Nbd2 Bb7  12. Bc2 Re8  13.  Nf1 Bf8
>14, Ng3 g6  15. Bg5 h6  16. Bd2 Bg7  17. a4 c5  18. d5 c4  19. b4 Nh7?!
>20. Be3 h5  21. Qd2 Rf8  22. Ra3 Ndf6  23. Rea1 Qd7  24. R1a2 Rfc8
>25. Qc1 Bf8  26. Qa1 Qe8  27. Nf1 Be7  28. N1d2 Kg7  29. Nb1 Ne4!?
>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.

>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?

>42. Nf5 Bf8  43. Qf4 Kd7  44. Nd4 Qe1  45. Kg2 Bd5  46. Be4 Be4  47.  Ne4 Be7
>48. Nb5 Nf8  49. Nbd6 Ne6  50. Qe5 Resigns

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

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 ... "
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: abrodnik@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca
Subject: Re: Prononciation Of Names
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 05:43:17 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.174809.4181@cv.ruu.nl> kees@cv.ruu.nl (Kees de Graaf) writes:
>In <1992Sep9.082131.117@ipact.com> pals@ipact.com writes:
>
>| In article <Bu9uv1.673.2@cs.cmu.edu>, nash+@cs.cmu.edu (Richard Nash) writes:
>| 
>| > Anyway, to get the ball rolling... 
>| > I can't pronounce (or in some cases spell) these...
>| > 
>| > Pirc - I've always used PERK, but I am told it is PURSE. Which is right?
>| 
>| I remember reading it as "peertz".  
>
>Peerch (ch as in couch).

Nope. This would be true if his name would be spelled:

                                    v
				 PIRC

But it is simple:

				 PIRC

Therefore (as I mentioned in some other posting already): "peertz".

Best regards,

Andrej
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: ed@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (edward.m.hummel)
Subject: Re: F-S II gossip
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 09:58:35 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.143715.15579@husc3.harvard.edu> fry@zariski.harvard.edu (David Fry) writes:
>He said, in response to questions, that "I have not paid my income 
>taxes since 1976 and I have no intention of paying them now." 

I wonder if Fischer had enough income during the years 1976-1991 to
interest the IRS.  I guess forms need to be filed anyway, but is it
likely he would owe much money?
From: pmarko@bnr.ca (Peter Marko)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: ELO scoring
Date: 15 Sep 92 18:11:33 GMT
Organization: Northern Telecom Canada Ltd.
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1

In article <4000@sicsun.epfl.ch> Erol Basturk, basturk@nebin.cica.fr
writes:

>Been about to create a chess club in my school (CICA, France), 
>I thought about using the ELO scoring system to rule our internal
>tournament. Unfortunately, i don't know where to find the specifications
>of the ELO system.
>
>Could anyone help me or tell me how this system works effectively ?
>
>Thanks.


Erol,

I think your best bet is to contact the Chess Federation in France. 
Although Mr. Elo has established a universal system, and it is being used
world-wide, many little details differ from country to country.

For your information, I included below the basic equation of the system. 
If you are interested in more detail, get "The Rating of Chessplayers,
Past and Present", by Arpad E. Elo, published by Arco Publishing Inc.,
New York, in 1978.  A most fascinating book.

In its most simple form, the equation to calculate a particular player's
new rating after a tournament is as follows:

  Rn = Ro + K(W - L)/2 - (K/4C)SUM(Di)

    where:

  Rn       is the player's new rating
  Ro       is the palyer's old (previous) rating
  K        is a constant (I think it is 32 for the US Chess Federation)
  W        is the number of wins
  L        is the number of losses
  C        is the class interval, or 200 points
  Di       is the rating difference between the player and opponent(i)
  SUM(Di)  is the sum of the rating differences between the player and
all 
           opponents played

This equation is an approximation of the percentage expectancy table,
which adheres to the normal distribution.  One class (200 points)
difference is equivalent to about 3.2 times playing strength:

  Rating Difference     Performance

          0                 50%
         50                 57%
        100                 64%
        150                 70%
        200                 76%
        300                 85%
        400                 92%

I hope this is of some help to you.  Good luck!

   ...Peter

-------------------------------------------------------
Peter Marko  .....  (613)763-5344  .....  pmarko@bnr.ca
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
From: CAPSA <capsa@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Date: 09 Sep 92 20:31 PDT
Subject: Re: Network Chess
Nf-ID: #R:18krjaINNklu@usenet.ins.cwru.edu:458035471:cdp:1451600038:000:317
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!capsa    Sep  9 20:31:00 1992


For those who may be interested -- and without deference to those who prate,
usually with no understanding of what they are saying, "keep politics out of chess" -- GEnie is a subsidiary of General Electric, which is being boycotted by
pro-human forces in the United States and elsewhere.

Fraternally,

Jerome Bibuld
From: dsteele@almaden.ibm.com
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: F-S II game 6 DRAW complete moves
Date: 11 Sep 92 23:59:11 GMT
Reply-To: dsteele@almaden.ibm.com ()

|> dsteele@almaden.ibm.com writes:
|> > After seeing what occured in the game a possible 
|> > big error by Spasski was at move 24. Rc7+ 
|> >
|> > Better might be 24. Bxd6 and try to maintain the 
|> > outside passed pawn. e.g. 24 ... Nxd6   25. Rc7+ Kf6 
|> > 26. Kf1
|> 

John Pope replies: 

|> Various positions after 24.Rc7 were either winning or very close to
|> it, so it is difficult to label it a "big error". Also, it is more
|> difficult than it looks to get the b-pawn rolling so going for the
|> activity was probably the best try. Perhaps the mistake was in
|> not going for more material when he had the chance.

  Which point is that where Spasski could go for more 
  material?  It looks like he should be able to gobble at 
  least the h-pawn as well as the g-pawn but a good time to 
  do this is not clear. If there is not such a time
  than it seems like the b-pawn would be more valuable 
  than a trade for only blacks g pawn.  

                 Dave
From: fry@tara.harvard.edu (David Fry)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: F-S II gossip
Date: 16 Sep 92 01:45:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Sep15.214524.15618
Distribution: world
Organization: Harvard Math Department


Reuters reports today that a source close to the organizers of the
current match in Yugoslavia says that Fischer does not intend to
return to the US at any time soon.  The source says that Fischer
intends to return sometime, but intends to be in either Sveti Stefan
or Belgrade and shuttle between Budapest and Germany for at least a
year. 

The source also confirmed that Fischer intends to continue playing
tournament chess, but not in large tournaments that he deems to tiring
for someone his age.  He'll stick to smaller tourneys and blitz
matches.

The source reiterated the idea that Fischer's "girlfriend" (even if
she says she's not his girlfriend) was instrumental in bringing him
out of retirement (even if she denies it).

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: bereolos@dryer.ecn.purdue.edu (Peter J Bereolos)
Subject: Re: Game 2: a good endgame to try a computer on?
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 21:28:17 GMT

In article <1992Sep5.215250.6883@samba.oit.unc.edu> Rennan.Barkana@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Rennan Barkana) writes:
>In article <1992Sep5.043015.11126@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> bereolos@ether.ecn.purdue.edu (Peter J Bereolos) writes:
>>
>>I think a possible win for Fischer is the following sequence
>>
>>50...Nc4 51. Bc4 Rc4 52. Kb6 Ra4 53. Kb5 now Byrne in the NY Times gives
>>
>>53...Ra1 54. Kb4 a3 and quickly drawn.  But why play a3 surrendering b3
>>to the White King?  Instead play
>
>You must be missing a few moves, since after 53... Ra1 there are still black
>pawns on a5 and c5, making 54.Kb4 impossible. But I get your point.

I seem to have left a move out.  After 53. Kb5 Ra2 (stronger than Byrne's Ra1)
54. Bc5 a4 55. Kb4 now 55... Kg6 instead of 55...a4?

>
>I guess that at the end of the key line you mean that the position is:
>White: Kb4, Ba3    and Black: Kd3, Ra1, pawn on a4
>Then after 58.Bb2 Rb1 (or Ra2 59. Ba3) 59.Ka3, how can Black achieve 
>anything more if White just moves his Bishop on the long diagonal?

He uses zugzwang.  In your paranthetical note, Ra2 59. Ba3 black plays Kc2
and white must take the pawn with Ka4 then Kc3 wins the bishop.

If white keeps his bishop on the long diagonal, Black has the plan Kb1, a3, R
moves on 2nd rank to attack the bishop, a2.  I can find no defense.

Pete
--
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bereolos@ecn.purdue.edu            |        Hank Aaron-755  Ron Kittle-176
pur-ee!bereolos                    |
                                   |      
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: smith@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (cheryl.l.smith)
Subject: Fischer-Spassky chess moves nomenclature
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: bl
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 19:41:50 GMT
Keywords: neophyte

My eight-year old son would like to recreate the moves on his chess set of
the Fischer-Spassky game that were printed in the newspaper.  I know very
little about chess and do not know how to decipher the text into physical
moves to show him.  There is not a chess club at his elementary school and
the local bookstore wasn't helpful either.  Can anyone out there tell me
what how to read this or tell me where I can find instructions?  Thanks.
	This is an example of what was printed in the paper:
	white
		black

1.	e4	e5
2.	Nf3	Ne6
3.	Bb5	a6
4.	Ba4	Nt6
5.	o-o	Be7

My son and I thank you for any help you can give us.
		Cheryl Smith
		ihlpy!clsmith
From: Bruce_Harper@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Harper)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: F-S II game 5 comments and analysis
Date: 10 Sep 92 13:56:56 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

I think Yasser's wrong - not of all Fischer's moves were strong and logical.
25....f5 was so important it isn't surprising to hear that Fishcer missed it -
he never would have allowed it.  But how could he miss it?

Besides 21.h4 and 21.a3!?, 21.Qd2! is a third way to offer the exchange
sacrifice.  If Black takes it, White picks up an important tempo on the h Pawn.

It's interesting that no one seems to want to bother with analysis of these
games, although people don't seem to hesitate to imply that the match is fixed,
or that Fischer knows he's going to lose and is doing it for the money, and so
on.  Perhaps the heading "recgames.chess" is somewhat misleading...

At any rate, I'm looking forward to game 7.
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: FSII - game 7 result
From: ioffe@chen.bgu.ac.il (Alex Ioffe)
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 12:50:41 GMT
Organization: Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel



Fisher had won after 5 hours .
Nick
From: ath@linkoping.trab.se (Anders Thulin)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Let's drop pronounciation ...
Date: 14 Sep 92 06:35:33 GMT
Organization: Telia Research AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden

May I suggest that any further inquiries into pronouciation be
directed to Oxford Companion to Chess, any edition? 

-- 
Anders Thulin       ath@linkoping.trab.se 
Telia Research AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: perlman@qso.Colorado.EDU (Eric S. Perlman)
Subject: Re: Fischer-Spassky Prediction
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 19:45:32 GMT

In article <BuFD6H.Btq@math.uwaterloo.ca> alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Alex Lopez-Ortiz) writes:
>In article <1992Sep11.154747.184@bnr.ca>, Peter Marko <pmarko@bnr.ca> writes:
>> I have not seen a serious attempt by anyone to predict the outcome of
>> this match, so here is my opinion.
>> 
>> When Fischer quit in 1972, he had a rating of 2780.  He was 29 years old,
>> probably not yet at his peak.  Had he played during the past twenty
>> years, we would have seen his rating go up to about 2820, and then slowly
>> dropping to around 2740 by this year (he is 49, well passed his
>> theoretical peak).  Because he had not played since 1972, his current
>> strength should be estimated by deducting another 40 points or so from
>> this, or at about 2700.
>
>For anybody who has played chess and then stopped is clear that you loose
>way more than 40 points, even after 4 years idle time.
>
>I would deduct anywhere from 100-250 points for not playing actively.

Possibly, but at grandmaster level?  The fact is, we have only one
recent example of something which is superficially similar:  last year,
Henrique Mecking played his first competitive chess after 16 years'
absence from the game due to myasthenia gravis.  His first two results
were quite good, though a step below his previous standard:  he drew a
match 3-3 with Nikolic and lost to Seirawan 3.5-2.5.  He is listed now
at 2610, if memory serves.

The other thing is that Fischer is so far off the curve that what goes
for most human beings may not be the case for him.


-- 
"How sad to see/A model of decorum and tranquillity/become like any other sport
A battleground for rival ideologies to slug it out with glee." -Tim Rice,"Chess"
     Eric S. Perlman 				 <perlman@qso.colorado.edu> 
  Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado, Boulder