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From: clong@remus.rutgers.edu (Chris Long)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: scratchy-falcon
Date: 22 Jan 93 06:34:43 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


Here is another interesting game which took place on ICS between
scratchy (Deep Thought) and falcon (P. Murthy).  scratchy saves
the win with a nice mate.  Annotations, anyone?

scratchy vs. falcon --- Thursday January 21, 10:54 PM EST, 1993

Unrated standard match, initial time: 10 minutes, increment: 5 seconds.

Move     scratchy               falcon         
----     --------------         --------------
   1     P/e2-e4 (0:01)         P/e7-e6 (0:03)
   2     P/d2-d4 (0:01)         P/d7-d5 (0:03)
   3     N/b1-c3 (0:00)         B/f8-b4 (0:04)
   4     P/e4-e5 (0:01)         P/c7-c5 (0:06)
   5     P/a2-a3 (0:01)         B/b4-c3 (0:10)
   6     P/b2-c3 (0:01)         N/g8-e7 (0:04)
   7     Q/d1-g4 (0:00)         K/e8-f8 (0:04)
   8     N/g1-f3 (0:36)         Q/d8-a5 (0:12)
   9     B/c1-d2 (0:08)         Q/a5-a4 (0:13)
  10     R/a1-a2 (0:20)         N/b8-c6 (0:05)
  11     B/f1-d3 (0:13)         P/c5-d4 (0:12)
  12     P/c3-d4 (0:20)         P/b7-b6 (0:03)
  13     Q/g4-f4 (0:16)         B/c8-a6 (0:13)
  14     N/f3-g5 (0:18)         N/c6-d8 (0:07)
  15     B/d2-b4 (0:11)         B/a6-d3 (0:16)
  16     P/c2-d3 (0:01)         P/h7-h6 (0:13)
  17     N/g5-f3 (0:29)         N/d8-c6 (0:14)
  18     Q/f4-d2 (0:03)         N/c6-b4 (0:58)
  19     P/a3-b4 (0:18)         Q/a4-b5 (0:04)
  20     o-o (0:24)             N/e7-c6 (0:09)
  21     R/f1-c1 (0:12)         P/g7-g6 (0:38)
  22     R/c1-a1 (0:20)         Q/b5-b4 (0:49)
  23     Q/d2-b4 (0:31)         N/c6-b4 (0:10)
  24     R/a2-a7 (0:21)         R/a8-a7 (0:03)
  25     R/a1-a7 (0:19)         K/f8-g7 (0:16)
  26     R/a7-a3 (0:18)         R/h8-c8 (0:10)
  27     K/g1-f1 (0:17)         R/c8-c2 (0:31)
  28     R/a3-b3 (0:16)         N/b4-a2 (0:38)
  29     R/b3-b6 (0:01)         N/a2-c3 (0:12)
  30     N/f3-e1 (0:16)         R/c2-d2 (0:23)
  31     R/b6-c6 (0:16)         N/c3-d1 (0:18)
  32     R/c6-c2 (0:14)         R/d2-c2 (0:21)
  33     N/e1-c2 (0:00)         N/d1-c3 (0:09)
  34     N/c2-a3 (0:06)         P/f7-f6 (0:07)
  35     K/f1-e1 (0:16)         N/c3-a4 (0:12)
  36     P/h2-h4 (0:14)         P/g6-g5 (0:05)
  37     P/h4-g5 (0:09)         P/h6-g5 (0:07)
  38     N/a3-b5 (0:13)         K/g7-g6 (0:24)
  39     P/f2-f3 (0:13)         P/f6-e5 (0:24)
  40     P/d4-e5 (0:13)         K/g6-f5 (0:08)
  41     P/d3-d4 (0:13)         N/a4-b6 (0:15)
  42     N/b5-c7 (0:13)         N/b6-c4 (0:13)
  43     P/g2-g4 (0:12)         K/f5-f4 (0:12)
  44     K/e1-f2 (0:11)         B resigns
-- 
Chris Long, 265 Old York Rd., Bridgewater, NJ 08807-2618

Score: 0, Diff: 1, clong killed by a Harvard Math Team on  1
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: davewood@bruno.cs.colorado.edu (David Rex Wood)
Subject: ChessMaster Tourney -- Round 2
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:30:07 GMT

This round was between the other 8 "players," two round each.

Name		W	L	D	Pts

Morphy-Style	13	 1	 0	13.0
Queentaker	11	 2	 1	11.5
Tal-Style	 9	 4	 1	 9.5
Marshall-Style	 8	 4	 2	 9.0
Positional	 5	 7	 2	 6.0
Pawngrabber	 5	 9	 0	 5.0
Novice		 2	12	 0	 2.0
Woodpusher	 0	14	 0	 0.0

So this means the final round will be between:

Morphy-Style, Queentaker, Tal-Style, Marshall-Style,
Nimzovich-Style, Capablanca-Style, Lasker-Style, Chessmaster (Chessmaster
really didn't earn the spot, but oh well...)

-- 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
David Rex Wood -- davewood@cs.colorado.edu -- University of Colorado at Boulder
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: edd@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (ed.knowles)
Subject: Re: 1 BOOK ONLY
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:46:25 GMT
Summary: Really Good Book

In article <cerulean.727753289@digex>, cerulean@access.digex.com (Bill Christens-Barry) writes:
> One book only, huh?  It would have to be
> 
>   "The Art of Chess Analysis"
> 
> by Jan Timman.  This book is filled with many of the classic games of the
> last 30 years.  There are tremendous fighting games, subtle games, games
> of perfection, and games with many difficult choices.  But throughout,
> there is thorough, probing, skeptical, and disciplined analysis.  Most
> unusually, Timman gives clear opinions on all of variations, backed up
> by analysis.  Finally, there is a rare appreciation of the human dimension,
> the drama, doubt, and passion that take chess beyond mere technical precision.
> 
> Bill Christens-Barry
> cerulean@digex.com
> 
> 

Timman's book is one of the best books ever written by a grandmaster, and the
analysis is probably the best (and that includes Alekhine & Fischer). I still
prefer Tal's book (The Life & Games of Mikhail Tal), though, for it's all-
around entertainment value. Timman's book, although not dry, is much to serious
to be good company over the long haul. Just for the record, my favorite
chess books (top ten, as it were) are:

1) The Life & Games of Mikhail Tal by Tal
2) Blunders & Brilliancies by Ian Mullen & Moe Moss
3) Botvinnik-Tal 1960 by Tal
4) Spassky's 100 best games by Cafferty
5) Spassky's best games by Soltis
6) My Sixty Memorable Games by Fischer (& Evans)
7) New Ideas In Chess by GM Larry Evans
8) Alekhine's Best Games Of Chess (combined volumes) by Alekhine
9) Miniatures by The World Champions by Karpov
10) The World Chess Championships by Gligoric

honorable mention:

  Vukevic's The Art Of Chess Sacrifice (not his Art of Chess Attack -- this
    is an older book that's out of print).

  1234 Modern Endgame Studies
  Karpov on Karpov (no games)
  Searching for Bobby Fischer  by Waitzkin (no games)
  The Defense by Vladimir Nabokov (a novel)
  Bobby Fischer vs. the Rest Of The World (funniest book I've ever read)
  1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices & Combinations (Reinfeld)
  Diamond Dust
  The Art Of Chess Analysis by Timman
  The test Of Time/Fighting Chess by Kasparov

Books I don't like very much:
  Reinfeld's Complete Chessplayer
  Chess Praxis by Nimzovich (even though My System was okay)
  Chess is My Life by Korchnoi (paranoid ramblings...)
  Chess is My Life by Karpov (gratuitous  and should have kept the original 
      title "The Ninth File"-- I'm writing a book now call CHESS IS NOT MY
  LIFE to offer a little balance)

  The Eight (a novel)
  The Queen's Gambit (the novel)

  Run,Rabbit,Run by Updike
  Hawaii by Michener (why does everything have to start with the dinosaurs?
  
                                     -Edd Knowles

Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: rryan@panix.com (Rob Ryan)
Subject: Short-Timman, Game 8, Draw, Moves
Organization: Panix, NYC
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:37:51 GMT

In just under 3 hours, Timman and Short drew game 8.  The match now stands
at 4 points each (2 wins each and 4 draws).  The first to 7.5 in this 14 game
match wins.

Game 8:  Ruy Lopez, Open Variation

      Short Timman
    1  e4    e5
    2  Nf3   Nc6
    3  Bb5   a6
    4  Ba4   Nf6
    5  O-O   Nxe4
    6  d4    b5
    7  Bb3   d5
    8  Nxe5  Nxe5
    9  dxe5  c6
    10 Nd2   Nxd2
    11 Bxd2  Be7
    12 Qh5   Be6
    13 c3    Qd7
    14 Bg5   Bf5
    15 Rfe1  Bg6
    16 Qh4   Bxg5
    17 Qxg5  O-O
    18 Rad1  Rfe8
    19 Re3   Qf5
    20 Qxf5  Bxf5
    21 h3    h5
    22 Rde1  Rad8
    23 Bd1   g6
    24 b4    c5
    25 bxc5  Rc8
    26 a4    Rxc5
    27 axb5  axb5
    28 g4
    DRAW AGREED

-- 
Rob Ryan
    rryan@panix.com
From: tjt@Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Tim Thompson)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Fianchetto; En Passant
Date: 23 Jan 1993 05:30:06 GMT
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Distribution: world
Reply-To: tjt@Jpl.Nasa.Gov
NNTP-Posting-Host: scn1.jpl.nasa.gov

   I can't say as I've seen a book that handles fianchetto as you want, but I can
say something about en passant. The rule was introduced not long after chess
came to Europe, probably by the late 1400's. The motivation comes from the fact
the the parent Arab/Persian game of Shatranj allowed pawns to move only one
square always. When impatient Europeans insisted on livening things up with the
two-squares-on-the-first-move option, there were many complaints about losing
the opportunity to exchange pawns. The two square option allowed one to bypass
the enemy pawn, so the en passant rule was introduced to eliminate that
complaint.

          Tim Thompson
          JPL Div 32 Science Computing Network
From: hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu (sven  hauptfeld)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Presidential Chess
Date: 25 Jan 93 02:34:57 GMT
Reply-To: hau4@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago

In article <1993Jan21.091415.1@swvcc.wvnet.edu> cc3@swvcc.wvnet.edu writes:
>
>Benjamin Franklin     <- Not a President, but a famous historical figure
>                         There's an story about him playing chess with a queen
>                         while she was taking a bath (in the nude of course)
>
Just another proof of necessity of Rec.games.chess.nude  :-)

	Sven
From: tjt@Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Tim Thompson)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Past Chess Champions vs Present Day (Kaspa
Date: 25 Jan 1993 20:23:18 GMT
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Distribution: world
Reply-To: tjt@Jpl.Nasa.Gov
NNTP-Posting-Host: scn1.jpl.nasa.gov

   I'm not sure what you mean. If kasparov, or Karpov, or Fischer, etc., were
to hop in a time machine and go back to whenever, they would surely mop the
floor with anyone they encountered. Not only are they just as good personally,
but they have decades of chess learning their opponents would be ignorant of.
   More realistically, if you could haul one of the great champs of the past up
to today, and let them absorb modern chess theory, I think many of the past
great champions couls easily risk being champion again. Why not?

                          Tim Thompson
From: jtomas@ucsb.edu (John Tomas)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: I will accept DMC's challenge!! (was Re: DMC vs. Harper)
Date: 24 Jan 93 19:43:47 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara


 I guess this post is final evidence as to the extent of the poster's knowledge
 of chess.

Newsgroups: rec.games.chess,rec.puzzles
From: kue@jyu.fi (Kari U Eloranta)
Subject: Re: CHESS NOVELS?
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 06:55:59 GMT

Just testing, please ignore...!
 


Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: riley@hotmetal.EBay.Sun.COM (Riley Hughes)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Wanted - Nunn's Najdorf for the Tournament Player
Date: 26 Jan 93 23:21:17 GMT
Reply-To: riley@hotmetal.EBay.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems
NNTP-Posting-Host: hotmetal.ebay.sun.com



I would like to purchase this book.  If you have a copy you no longer want,
let me know.  I'll buy it!

Thank you,
Riley Hughes
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: gfeygin@unicorn.eecg.toronto.edu (Gennady Feygin)
Subject: Re: Top FIDE Ratings
Organization: Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto
Date: 25 Jan 93 15:31:32 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.024913.10208@midway.uchicago.edu>, hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu (sven  hauptfeld) writes:
|> In article <C1C622.2FA@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> J.Theodore.Schuerzinger@dartmouth.edu (J. Theodore Schuerzinger) writes:
|> >
|> >Sokolov was #3 in 1987, but look at him now.  I don't know how he ever
|> >got to #3, but I think ratings inflation might have had something to do
|> >with it.  (Please change the header if you're going to start a thread
|> >about ratings inflation!)  Also, I don't think Yusupov was #4 when he
|> >played against Sokolov in the 'Candidates' Final'.
|> >
|> I think Sokolov and Yusupov shared #3 and #4 with the rating of 2665, but this
|> is just from my head and that rating might well have been _after_ Sokolov's
|> convincing defeat in his match with Karpov.
|> 
|> I'll also point out that this is Andrei Sokolov, from former USSR (probably
|> Russia but I'm not sure), who is not to be found among top 50 players today
|> (although he is still young). He is not related to Ivan Sokolov, the rising
|> star from Bosnia-Herzegovina. Even their last names are stressed on different
|> syllables (Ivan SOkolov [sure] and AnDREY SoKOlov [SokoLOV? Russian speakers,
|> help, please!]).
  Actually two different accents are possible in Russian --- SOkolov and SokoLOV
|> 
|> 	Sven
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: pc chess programs
From: cfc@isr.harvard.edu (Christopher F. Chabris)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 15:35:28 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

"jay hack" <jay.hack@execnet.com> writes:

>Thanks for the interesting information, but could you explain what
>methodology was used to come up with the USCF ratings for the various
>programs.  I think that at the USCF Computer Chess Challenge, this
>summer, Knightstalker won a game against a GM at G/25. I'm not sure who,
>I was running the two of the demo Boards and the moves at the end were
>coming so fast that I forget exactly what happened.  Admittedly the GM's
>had played a speed chess tournament that day and they were tired, but
>perhaps the "effective" rating of the programs is better at faster time
>controls because the increase in search ply is not proportionate to the
>increase in time between moves.

Actually the event was called the Third Harvard Cup (the first two were
in 1989 and 1991, and the fourth will be later this year). It was held
in conjunction with the U.S. Chess Festival last July in New York.

Knightstalker, running on a 486/33 PC compatible, beat GM Sergey Kudrin
in a wild game where Kudrin sacrificed material for an attack but couldn't
quite make it work.

-Chris
From: mginsbur@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Mark Ginsburg)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: aries-deep thought - reprise
Date: 21 Jan 93 23:48:05 GMT
Distribution: rec.games.chess
Organization: NYU Stern School of Business

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	aries vs. scratchy
      Wed Jan 13 11:24:49 1993	

1.  d4   (0:05)   f5   (0:01)
2.  c4   (0:15)   Nf6  (0:02)
3.  g3   (0:10)   g6   (0:01)
4.  Bg2  (0:02)   Bg7  (0:01)
5.  Nh3  (0:03)   c5   (0:37)
6.  d5   (0:07)   Ng4  (0:14)
7.  0-0  (0:15)   Qb6  (0:23)
8.  Nc3  (0:04)   Na6  (0:18)
9.  e4   (0:44)   Ne5  (0:19)
10. exf5 (0:09)   Nxc4 (0:20)
11. Nf4  (0:19)   Nxb2 (1:30)
12. Qc2  (0:26)   Nc4  (0:00)
13. d6   (0:35)   Qxd6 (0:18)
14. Nb5  (1:34)   Qb8  (0:44)
15. Qxc4 (0:23)   Bxa1 (0:41)
16. fxg6 (0:05)   e6   (0:43)
17. Be3  (0:17)   Be5  (0:32)
18. gxh7 (0:12)   Rxh7 (0:11)
19. Re1  (0:58)   Rf7  (0:24)
20. Ng6  (0:33)   Rh7  (0:54)
21. Qg4  (0:54)   Bd6  (0:16)
22. Rd1  (0:34)   Bxg3 (0:10)
23. hxg3 (0:05)   d5   (0:10)
24. Bf4  (0:08)   e5   (0:10)
25. Qe2  (0:09)   Kf7  (0:02)
26. Nxe5 (0:05)   Kg7  (0:06)
27. Nf3  (0:10)   Qxf4 (0:12)
Black resigns

Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:06:20 -0500 
From: Samuel Antonio Minter <Abulsme+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Chessmaster Tourney - Round 1

I've done similar things with my Chessmaster.  One thing that should be
taken note of:  If you repeat the same tourniment you often get
radically different results.  In order to get a reliable ranking you
have to play a LOT of games.  What I do is look at the ranges:

Nw/N-Sqrt(Nw/N) < x < Nw/N+Sqrt(Nw/N)

Where Nw is the number of wins (Draws as 1/2 of course) and N is the
total number of games played by that personality.

When these ranges no longer overlap for any of the personalities they
are "out of error" of each other and you have a reasonable ranking. 
That may be a few more games than you need, but it's about right I think.

Since how well you do depends on what opponents you have you have to
just repeat the same tournement over and over, you can't compare results
from two different tounements very well.  Also to be fair since some
might play better with one color or the other I always made sure I used
an even number of rounds in each touniment, so each player would play
each other the same number of times as white and black.

I never finished ranking the built-in personalities, so I don't have
that information.  I moved on to ranking my own creations.  As an
example of how long it takes to do these when I took 8 personalities
which differed from each other only slightly (as the built in ones do)
it took 7 tounements with 2 rounds (the max for 8 players) each for the
best of the personalities to move "out of error" of the other 7 (all I
cared about), the others still overlaped quite a bit.

 
************************************************************
* Abulsme Itramne (Sam Minter)            Abulsme+@cmu.edu *
************************************************************
 
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were
standing on my shoulders. - Hal Abelson
From: linb@ucs.orst.edu (Benjamin Lin)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Queen's pawn opening: London System
Date: 26 Jan 93 23:01:13 GMT
Organization: University Computing Services - OSU
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucs.orst.edu

1 d4 Nf6 2 Nf3 e6 3 Bf4 c5 4 e3 Qb6!

I consider this sufficient to equalize.  However, White can try the tricky

5 Nc3 cd 6 ed Qxb2 7 Na4 (7 Nb5 Nd5) Bb4+ 8 c3 Bxc3+ 9 Nxc3 Qxc3 10 Bd2 Qa3
11 Rb1 a5

Is Black ok or is there a way to improve for either side before?

-benoni
From: corleyj@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Jason D Corley )
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Drugs in Chess?
Date: 22 Jan 93 18:15:39 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson

In article <32iRXB1w164w@tweekco.uucp> jay@tweekco.uucp (Jay Whitley) writes:
>I've read allegations about drugs in chess (allegations about
>Karpov in K-K World Championship, etc.)  Should drug use be
>banned from chess play as it is in athletic events? Should there
>be drug testing?  Or, is this even an issue in chess?

This is not an issue, at least not in Nude Chess.  If one of the
competitors has been taking steroids (and is male), it becomes rather
obvious once the Nude Chess match has begun that some abuse has taken
place.

Let's just say that their e-pawn is quite underdeveloped.


--
*****************************************************************************
"One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged."
	-----Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
Jason "corleyj@gas.uug.arizona.edu" Corley  Physicist, Mathematician, Liar
From: freeman@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Edmund E. Freeman)
Subject: Re: Drugs in Chess?
Organization: Math Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:27:14 GMT

In article <C19zyu.t4@panix.com> rryan@panix.com (Rob Ryan) writes:
>In <32iRXB1w164w@tweekco.uucp> jay@tweekco.uucp (Jay Whitley) writes:
>
>>I've read allegations about drugs in chess (allegations about
>>Karpov in K-K World Championship, etc.)  Should drug use be
>>banned from chess play as it is in athletic events? Should there
>>be drug testing?  Or, is this even an issue in chess?
>
>A while ago, New In Chess (I think it was NIC) had an article on this topic
>within the past 6 months.  I can't find the article, but if my memory
>serves me, Germany has started drug testing at events.  I seem to remember
>that they were checking for, among others, caffeine, as unlikely as it
>sounds.  The article suggested that they perceived mental endurance as part
>of the game and thought it unfair to use chemical stimulants.  The article
>seemed to suggest, though, that it was a fairly isolated incident.
>
>For all practical purposes, though, there is no drug testing in chess.
>-- 
>Rob Ryan
>    rryan@panix.com

Wow. The mind boggles. Imagine the sight of Kasparov and Short/Timman
lining up to piss into jars. Imagine trying to get the Bobby to do that.

You know, if caffine is considered an unfair substance, what about sugar?
carbohydrates? hydrogen di-oxide (water)? We could have a new way of winning
games; not just having the opponents' clock expire, but having the opponent
expire. Talk about killer chess.

					Ed



Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: capsa@igc.apc.org (CAPSA)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: The 1988 FIDE Laws of Chess [Long]
Date: 23 Jan 93 18:59:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #R:1jn1plINNcdv@tain.chemeng.ed.ac.:-372881595:cdp:1451600071:000:752
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!capsa    Jan 23 10:59:00 1993


I think posting the FIDE Laws of 
Chess (that is, THE laws of chess) to this newsgroup is a GREAT idea.  However,
since the OFFICIAL language of FIDE (in that any question concerning the Laws
must refer to the FIDE English language version), I question the propriety of
"correcting" that version for putative flaws in its English.  (That is not to say that I would not change some of the language, IF I LEGITIMATELY COULD.  For
example, I detest the official English name of FIDE, WORLD Chess Federation,
prefering INTERNATIONAL Chess Federation.  HOWEVER, FIDE is the one to make that
choice, so I call it the WORLD Chess Federation when I refer to its full name in
English.)

Fraternally,

Jerome Bibuld
FIDE International Arbiter and Friend of FIDE
From: jeff@emily10.Berkeley.EDU (Jeffrey C. Ely)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Drugs in Chess?
Date: 22 Jan 1993 08:25:15 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Statistics, U. C. Berkeley
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In article <32iRXB1w164w@tweekco.uucp> jay@tweekco.uucp (Jay Whitley) writes:
>I've read allegations about drugs in chess (allegations about
>Karpov in K-K World Championship, etc.)  Should drug use be
>banned from chess play as it is in athletic events? Should there
>be drug testing?  Or, is this even an issue in chess?

huh?
From: raymond@qv3donald.LeidenUniv.nl (Raymond Wagner)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Sveshnikov, 7. a4.
Date: 27 Jan 1993 05:00:53 -0600
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Hi all,

Does any of you have any experience playing the Sveshnikov as black, in
the line where white responds with a4 on the seventh move, to prevent b5:

1.   e4     c5
2.  Nf3    Nc6
3.   d4   cxd4
4. Nxd4    Nf6
5.  Nc3     e5
6. Ndb5     d6
7.   a4

Now here I responded with 7. ... a6, but I lost two consecutive club
games with this line now. Any comments and/or suggestions and/or complete games?

I would appreciate it very very much,

Raymond (EMA).
email: raymond@qv3donald.leidenuniv.nl

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From: Ho Taft-Ferguson <taftferg@vx.cis.umn.edu>
Subject: Internet Chess Server
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Being new to this, can someone point me towards information regarding the 
Internet chess server?  Where is it?  What is it etc. ?  Thanks.
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