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From: spacefox@acs.bu.edu (Godfrey Degamo)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Chess Clubs.
Date: 22 Jan 93 07:13:36 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: spacefox@acs.bu.edu



     Hello.  At work, we are going to hold a chess tournament.  And, I don't
like losing.  So, I've been reading some chess literature;  mainly, anything
by Pandolfini.  (I'm not good enough to keep track of all the details presented
in other books.  Pandolfini's presentation best fits me.)
     Well, I'm a beginner.  And, I don't know why -perhaps my brain is starting
to develop- I find that I have a growing taste for Chess.
     I would like to know if there's Chess clubs in the Boston area.
I don't know what goes on in Chess clubs and what makes one "better" than
another, but I would like a chess club that generally fits this decription:

     plenty of games        -I suppose this goes without saying.
     in house tournaments 
       with monetary prizes -great motivation to get better.
     seminars               -Basically a small lecture from a master about
                               chess.  i.e. pawn structure, ideas behind specific
                               openings, etc.  And then afterwards, a chance for
                               beginners like me to try out what we just learned.
     famous guest appearances
         for lecture/play   -Well, I only know of one or two famous chess players,
                               it's always nice to meet the Grand masters of a
                               field.

      reasonable membership fees
                            -I don't know really what's reasonable as far as
                                chess clubs are concerned.  However, I don't
                                think paying $100 dollars a year as reasonable.

     Well, maybe this happens at all chess clubs.  I don't know.  But, if you do
know of a Chess Club in Boston with these features could you please email me
information about the club and how I can become a member?
     Perhaps you don't know of any clubs with the above characteristics, I still
would like to know if there are any chess clubs in the Boston area I can join.

Please if you do take time to respond, I guess it would be nice to post here,
but please email me.  I don't read these newsgroups often, and I'm afraid I
might forget I posted something to this newsgroup.

Well, sorry to take up your time.  Thank you and have a good day.


                                         -G. Degamo,
                                          spacefox@acs.bu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: franklin@cs.columbia.edu (Matthew Franklin)
Subject: Re: CHESS NOVELS?
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:03:16 GMT

"Hence" by Brad Leithauser.  It's a funny (and quite clever) story set
at the end of this century about a chess match between a computer and
a young prodigy.
From: jarmo@ae.tut.fi (Jarmo Sorvari)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Drugs in Chess?
Date: 25 Jan 93 11:15:01
Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland.
Distribution: world
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In-reply-to: Corey Butler's message of Saturday, 23 Jan 1993 16:09:52 EST

Doping tests are reality in Finnish chess tournaments.  I suppose it
is extremely rare, but not non-existent.  I know personally someone
who has been tested after a normal week-end tournament.

A couple of years ago when the Finnish Championships were held here in
Tampere, the organizers had posted lists reminding the players of
illegal substances.  The list, I presume, was the same that applies to
all other sports.  I don't know if there was actual testing, or not.

My assumption is, that the testing has been started in trying to raise
the status of chess as another form of sport.  Maybe also to get more
state support?
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From: tobill@mac.lerc.nasa.gov (William B. Wright)
Subject: Re: Daddy Polgar an IM?? (Was: CHESS SAVANTS?)
Reply-To: tobill@mac.lerc.nasa.gov (William B. Wright)
Organization: Sverdrup Technology, Inc.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:51:53 GMT

>I think all these "extreme" opinions on Laszlo are wrong. As I recall, one of 
>the reasons he gave for selecting chess (rather than e.g. music) for developing
>his daughters' genius was that he himself was able to teach them until a fairly
>advanced level, so he wouldn't have to persuade another teacher to use his
>methods. It seems likely that he was roughly expert strength when the experi-
>ment started, and might have improved a bit in the first few years (teaching
>is often useful for the teacher). But I don't think he has played in any
>tournaments at least since Zsuzsa was born.

In Chess Life, it was stated in an interview a while back that Daddy Polgar 
chose chess over music or other hobbies because Zsuzsa enjoyed it so much 
when first taught the moves, not because he was so skilled at it. The comment 
made in this newsgroup that Zsuzsa started beating him at age 9 is from this 
article. Note that this does not mean he is a bad player. He could very well 
rate Class 'A' or thereabouts on the USCF scale. All of the girls were 
already quite proficient by this age.

The iceman cometh!
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: wellerd@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (David Weller)
Subject: Re: Chess Clubs.
Organization: Ada Joint Program Office
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 09:27:48 EST

I am basically in the same boat as Godfrey, but I'm stuck in
Houston (Now the home of EX-President George Bush).  Any info 
on chess clubs?  Maybe this should be a FAQ item (Maybe listing
chess clubs of major metropolitan areas)?????

AdvTHANKSance,
Duffy Patzerfish

Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: carabalo@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David G. Caraballo)
Subject: A CONTEST!
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:17:47 GMT

Find a legal chess position, with White to move, where White has a forced
mate, but Chessmaster 3000 (after 15 minutes of thinking on my machine --
a 386-25 with 256K cache) evaluates White's position as losing (i.e., a
negative score).  The position that generates the most negative score is
the winner.  Entrants may submit only one position, and I'll accept them
until next Friday at midnight, EST.  I'll announce the winner a few days
later.  I suppose I can provide a token prize, although my budget is
quite limited (as a grad student).  Suggestions?

I got this idea while playing a very quick game (I had CM3000 set to 1
second per move, since I had only a few minutes to play.).  CM3000 thought
it was winning by roughly 2 pawns, and I had a mate in 5.  It evaluated
my position as losing, although I had a forced mate, simply because it
did not see 10 ply ahead (many branches at each stage) in 1 second.

You do not need to own CM3000 to enter.  The idea is to find a deep mate,
where Black has a material advantage.  Of course, if Black's material
advantage is too extreme, a deep mate for White is unlikely.  CM3000 will
certainly find any mates in 3 or 4 during that time period, so it is
not a good idea to submit one of those.

You may use any published position, or make up one of your own.
Enjoy!

David G. Caraballo
From: breuker@cs.rulimburg.nl (Dennis Breuker)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Smith-Morra Analysis
Date: 27 Jan 93 10:03:19 GMT
Organization: University of Limburg, Maastricht

Rod Malpert <ram4@cornell.edu> writes:

[interesting discussion deleted]
[VARIATION I deleted]

RM> VARIATION II.   4...Nc6 5 Nf3 e6 6 Bc4 Bb4 7 0-0 Nge7

What about 6...Bc5?

[Rest of VARIATION II deleted]
[VARIATIONs III-5 deleted]

RM> I hope this analysis is helpful and leads to further
RM> playing of and research into the Smith-Morra gambit.

Yes it is! Thank you very much! I used to play the Smith-Morra, but
I stopped playing it because of the lines 4...Nc6 5.Nf3 e6 6.Bc4 Bc5
and 4...Nc6 5.Nf3 e6 6.Bc4 Qc7 7.0-0 Nf6. But now I think I'll try
it the next time they are so stupid ;-) to play 1...c5.

BTW,
I think I missed one (old) variation:
4...Nc6 5.Nf3 d6 6.Bc4 e6 7.0-0 Nf6 8.Qe2 Be7 9.Rd1 e5
What about this one?

RM> SM Rod Malpert

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From: J.Theodore.Schuerzinger@dartmouth.edu (J. Theodore Schuerzinger)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Drugs in Chess?
Date: 24 Jan 93 02:18:35 GMT
 <93023.160952IO00376@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
X-Posted-From: InterNews1.0a5@newshost.dartmouth.edu

In article <93023.160952IO00376@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Corey Butler <IO00376@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:

> In <32iRXB1w164w@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?

Edmund E. Freeman writes:

> You know, if caffine is considered an unfair substance, what about sugar?

I think I read this in 'Karpov on Karpov' (or maybe it was Korchnoi's
'Chess is My Life') about Petrosjan:  At one of the Candidates'
Matches, Petrosjan pulled out a thermos of tea.  He proceeded to put a
jar of honey into the tea and stir the mixture.  Then, to everyone's
utter shock, he drank the entire thing in one gulp.  He was able to
play about three moves before he had the sugar fit and couldn't really
continue at GM-level.  He eventually had to resign the game.


--Ted Schuerzinger
email: .zed@Dartmouth.EDU
"I should have realized it would be bad vodka when all the label said
was 'Russian Vodka'."
From: schiller@whorf (Eric Schiller)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Book Review: Complete King's Indian
Date: 25 Jan 93 21:00:23 GMT
Reply-To: schiller@sapir.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <9301251056.0.UUL1.3#20523@intercal.com> hwr@intercal.com  
(Hanon W. Russell) writes:
> 
> THE COMPLETE KING'S INDIAN by Raymond Keene & Byron Jacobs, 1992 Henry 
> Holt and Company, English Algebraic Notation, Softcover, 272 
> pp., $22.95
> 
>> 
I spoke with Ray about this ridiculous title, and he agreed. But these are  
decisions made by publishers. The intent was to provide a guide to the  
current praxis in the KID. Even so, only discussing 6...Na6 as a
defense to the Averbakh is a bit thin.

But if you ignore the title, this is a great book with a goldmine of  
useful information. As for the format, blame ChessBase. it encourages
such things. What we need is a good authoring tool. I have already
prototyped one and hope to have it ready in the fall -- at
a very reasonable price.

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From: J.Theodore.Schuerzinger@dartmouth.edu (J. Theodore Schuerzinger)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: ChessMaster Tourney -- Round 2
Date: 23 Jan 93 16:47:04 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
X-Posted-From: InterNews1.0a5@newshost.dartmouth.edu

In article <1993Jan22.173007.21898@colorado.edu>
davewood@bruno.cs.colorado.edu (David Rex Wood) writes:

> 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
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^
Perhaps we should rename 'Woodpusher' -- 'Shirazi-style'!

:-)

--Ted Schuerzinger
email: .zed@Dartmouth.EDU
"I should have realized it would be bad vodka when all the label said
was 'Russian Vodka'."
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Saturday, 23 Jan 1993 16:09:52 EST
From: Corey Butler <IO00376@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Drugs in Chess?

In <32iRXB1w164w@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?

I have a hard time seeing this as an issue since there are no mental
equivalents to the stereoids used in athletics.  The so-called
"cortical enhancers" that are currently in vogue in certain circles
have no solid evidence to suggest that they enhance anything other
than the profits of companies which sell them.  As for caffiene and
nicotine, which do have subtle psychological effects, it probably
would not be worth the trouble trying to ban them.  And how could
we prohibit smokers from taking nicotine prior to a tournament?  In
any event, these stimulants can improve concentration and focus
attention to a certain extent (if not overdone), but so can eating
a good breakfast with lots of carbohydrates.  In fact, the latter
would probably be more effective as it would be less likely to
produce negative side effects, e.g. jitteriness.

Corey Butler
Average Chess Player and
Psychology Graduate Student
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: edd@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (ed.knowles)
Subject: Re: Timman-Short game 9 (Short wins) moves
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:05:47 GMT
Summary: Wow!

In article <7123@tuegate.tue.nl>, marcelk@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Marcel van Kervinck) writes:
> # Timman - Short
> # El Escorial 1993
> # (9)
> 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.O-O Ne7 6.Nxe5 Qd4 7.Qh5 g6 8.Qg5
> Bg7 9.Nd3 f5 10.e5 c5 11.b3 h6 12.Qg3 f4 13.Qf3 Bf5 14.Qxb7 Be4 15.Qxc7
> Bxd3 16.cxd3 Bxe5 17.Qb7 Rb8 18.Qxa6 f3 19.Nc3 fxg2 20.Re1 O-O 21.Qe6+ Rf7
> 22.Nd1 Qxa1 23.Qxe5 Qxe5 24.Rxe5 Nc6 25.Rxc5 Nb4 26.Ba3 Nxd3 27.Rc6 Ra8
> 28.Rd6 Rxa3 29.Rxd3 Rxa2 30.Ne3 Kg7 31.Kxg2 Ra5 32.Rd4 Rb5 33.b4 Rbb7
> 34.Rc4 Rfc7 35.Rg4 Rd7 36.h4 h5 37.Rg5 Rxb4 38.d4 Rf7 39.Rd5 Rb2
> # 0-1
> 
> --
> Marcel van Kervinck
> marcelk@stack.urc.tue.nl


This was a wild one! (Hard to believe that Mark Ginsberg wasn't on one side
of this melee, see aries-scratchy). Of course, it sorta looks like both sides
made a couple of tactical oversights... I'm going to read what the masters
say about this one. Doesn'y look like there was much strategical or positional
thinking here, just an old-fashioned 19th century style slugfest.

                                       -Edd Knowles
Newsgroups: rec.games.pinball
From: musjndx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Jonathan N. Deitch)
Subject: Re: Creature From The Black Lagoon
Organization: Georgia State University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 05:36:10 GMT

kahlerm@sumax.seattleu.edu (Michael Kahler) writes:

>In article <20JAN199309244072@fedora.gfdi.fsu.edu> scott@fedora.gfdi.fsu.edu (SCOTT) writes:
>>Those flashing lights by the left and right saucers to indicate that you
>>may start the movie will do that to you.  I haven't been so blinded since
>>that strobe light on Flash.

>It was flash gordon that had a true xneon strobe in the back glass,
>right between the words flash and gordon.  Geez, thats all I remember

Didn't Xenon (I think that was the name ...) have a strobe light too ?

- Jonathan

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Newsgroups: rec.games.pinball
From: sigma@degas.ipl.rpi.edu (Kevin Martin)
Subject: Re: Star Wars skill shot (was Re: Insta-Drain(TM))
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:32:39 GMT

phaedrus@halcyon.com (Mark Phaedrus) writes:
>holland@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Rich Holland) writes:
>>In speeder mode, just start firing.  After a couple scenes, you automatically
>>hit the storm trooper on the speeder bike and get 10 million points...
>     In speeder mode, just clean your fingernails, or read the paper, or watch
>the person playing Fish Tales next to you.  After a couple scenes, you 
>automatically hit the storm trooper on the speeder bike and get 10 million
>points. :)

Shades of the Ferris Wheels on Hurricane, eh?

Did they intend for this to be some sort of video mode originally?  Why
else would there be an up/down shifter?  Why else would you want to have an
"X-Wing Mode" which is just a 10M animation?

And how do you get that X-Frenzy mode on Star Wars?  It came up rather
frequently on the machine I played a few weeks ago, but not at all on the
most recent one.

-- 
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sigma@ipl.rpi.edu
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Newsgroups: rec.games.pinball
From: jduffy@ms.uky.edu (Jerry Duffy)
Subject: Re: Star Wars
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:43:01 GMT

cjm9321@hertz.njit.edu (The InfoMan) writes:

>	As far as your problem is, it never happened on the ones I
>played. The death star is probably missing a plastic piece or something.

I've had this happen a couple of times to me.. Hit the Death Star for
multiball or a double jackpot, and the machine would not register
the shot. After awhile, it would look for the ball, but would be unable
to find it. Tilting usually worked, but one time I had to turn it
off....

>	And, how does the Storm trooper shout out occur? I mean does it
>occur when you do a certain sequence or is it completely random?

I think it's random. I had the ball trapped and the Storm Trooper
shootout started. I usually don't even try to shoot them unless
I'm using the "Buddy System" :-). All it does is relite the Force
hole right?


-- 

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From: josh@cqs.washington.edu (Josh Hayes)
Newsgroups: rec.games.pinball
Subject: Re: Replays on fish tales
Date: 27 Jan 93 22:54:39 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
NNTP-Posting-Host: pogo.cqs.washington.edu

sigma@degas.ipl.rpi.edu (Kevin Martin) writes:

 [On Doctor Who...]
>We've started with replay around 245M and ended with it at 455M, even
>though there are no credits left.  It seems unfair to later players.

Cue Ball Wizard (Gottlieb/Premier, not DE) does something similar,
I think...I don't know HOW many times I've come into the bar, seen
CBW flash "replay at   69 Million", dropped my buck and won eight
or ten games, and left. Meanwhile, the replay score doesn't seem
to start going up until I've won the first four or five games, then
it goes up rather slowly....but, it KEEPS going up even when you
start losing! 

Some poor sap always is really happy to get the two or three games
when I get bored, but by then the replay is around two billion and
is completely out of reach for all but the most wizardly....

It does, however, reset the replay score when the credit counter
reads zero after all games are over, i.e. after you've lost. Generally,
though, it returns to a lower value but not the lowest at which it
started earlier....it's all rather confusing, really...

>Kevin Martin
>sigma@ipl.rpi.edu

Josh Hayes

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Newsgroups: rec.games.pinball
From: kjohnson@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Keefer)
Newsgroups: rec.games.pinball
Subject: Billionaire's Club
Date: 23 Jan 93 00:54:47 GMT
Organization: Virginia Polytechnic Bureaucracy, USA

Well, I just played a game of Bride of Pinbot where my billion score was
not high enough to make it on to the Billionaire's Club.  (I had been
meaning to try this for some time, but it just happened to happen this
time.)  As it turns out, you still get to put in your initials, and you
get 20th place, no matter WHAT your score was.  So if you get a Billion,
you are guaranteed to get into the club and your 2 (or whatever your
machine is) credits.

So now you know.

keith
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From: mfreiman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mark R Freiman)
Subject: Re: Looking to discuss T2 tips
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 23:11:53 GMT

Another good way to get points is to utilize the escape route.  Even though it 
starts out pretty "dinky" with a security pass and hold Bonus, afterwards, you 
get the return lanes lit, Multi-Ball, and extra ball.  This way can be fun 
(video mode) and also rewarding as well.