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From: dguerrer@oak.cel.scg.hac.com (Dan Guerrero)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: "Think like a GM" by A. Kotov
Date: 12 Sep 92 16:49:25 GMT
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Colorado Engineering Labs



I am interested in improving my chess game and I have identified
some of my weak points:

1.  I realize I am weak in formulating good plans.  Sometimes,
    I play a game with a plan only to abandon it at midgame
    as infeasible.

2.  I don't have the time or the inclination to memorize or
    familiarize myself with hundreds of openings.  Again, this might
    relate to #1 above. I feel that if I can have a good plan
    then I can find the opening that suits it and take it from
    there.

Someone recommended the book "Think like a
Grandmaster" by A. Kotov. I understand there is an entire series
of books like this(i.e. Plan like a GM, Train like a GM etc.).
I was told that these books would help me improve my game.  As
these books are rather expensive, since they are printed in Britain,
I would appreciate any comments on them. Feel free to suggest
other books that might be helpful.  Thanks. 
--
Dan Guerrero : dguerrer@rigel.hac.com    Hughes Aircraft Co. Denver,CO
==========================================================================
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 
"social sciences" is: some do, some don't.  -Ernest Rutherford
From: sachs@tanner.berkeley.edu (Rainer Sachs)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Fischer-Spassky - Game 4 - the mistake
Date: 7 Sep 1992 02:35:38 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: tanner.berkeley.edu
Keywords: New World Champion

In article <14899@mindlink.bc.ca> Bruce_Harper@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Harper) writes:
>Certainly White had real compensation for his material deficit.
>The question would appear to be "did Fischer overlook the sacrifice (even
>19...Bxa3 can't be worse for Black) or misjudge the position which resulted
>from it?"  

Well, isn't it about time to break off the match and arrange
a Spassky-Kasparov match immediately?  Consider this:
Fischer was world champion yesterday - he says so, the net says so,
even a rich banker says so. That settles that.

Spassky, unlike Kasparov, Short, Anand, Yusupov, ... has beaten
Fischer.  Thus Spassky is now world champion.  
Petty rules such as the FIDE uses, and befuddled officials,
cannot get in the way of this simple and obvious 
fact.  As world champion, Spassky can play anyone he wants.
He will make more money off Kasparov than anyone else, and,
having beaten Fischer, clearly will clean Kasparov's clock.
I predict a Spassky victory over Kasparov by 10-6.  Will that
mean Spassky's rating goes above 2700?

:-)
From: Bruce_Harper@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Harper)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Analysis: Please include your rating!
Date: 11 Sep 92 14:47:37 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

At the tisk of repeating my previous posting, this is a bad idea!  The analysis
speaks for itself.  For example, in the discussion about the exchange sacrifice
on a1 in Game 5, one view or the other is right - ratings have nothing to do
with it.

(PS: Last chance for Fischer was probably Nc3 instead of Bc3 - his position
appears to hang together after ...c4 Qc1).
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: dzk@cs.brown.edu (Danny Keren)
Subject: Re: fischer-spassky
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 02:51:53 GMT

In article <BuBwxJ.1wv@cs.dal.ca> hyde@cs.dal.ca (Bill Hyde) writes:
 
## Witness the USSR's players keeping fischer out of the championship
## in the 60's.  "The Russians Fix World Chess"
#
#	You forgot to include the :-)  Or are you really paranoid
#	enough to believe this?

As much as I detest Fischer the pisher, his claims against the Soviets
were right. I remember reading that in one of the candidate matches
he participated in, (before it was a knock-out tournament, but all
eight candidates competed together for the challanger spot) the Soviets
averaged 19.5 games per move against each other and 40.5 moves
against non-Soviets (perhaps Fischer and Larsen, I am not sure). Also,
they had a very high percentage of draws while playing against their
countrymen. Wasn't it Fischer's pressure that made FIDE change the
system to a knock-out tournament?

I read all this many years ago in a fine book about the 1972 world
championship, by (if I recall the name correctly) the English
player C.H.D. Alexander. If someone has the book and wants to
check the figures, I'd be grateful.

-Danny Keren.


Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu (sven  hauptfeld)
Subject: Re: Pronunciation guide from old _Chess Lifes_
Reply-To: hau4@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 23:59:52 GMT

In article <23668@alice.att.com> ark@alice.UUCP () writes:
>In article <1992Sep14.232106.20803@midway.uchicago.edu> hau4@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>
>> Except for the stress, because it's MAR-otsy ('mar' is like 'car'). ALL 
>> Hungarian words are stressed on the first syllable; no exceptions.
>
>Hmmm... What about names written with an explicit accent mark (if that's
>what it is), like Bela Barto'k (put the ' over the o, please)?
>-- 
>				--Andrew Koenig
>				  ark@europa.att.com

That is NOT an accent mark. It denotes a LONG vowel. Thus Bart\'ok is
pronounced BAR-talk.

	Sven

Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu (sven  hauptfeld)
Subject: Re: Prononciation Of Names
Reply-To: hau4@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:11:32 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".  

RIGHT!

>
>Peerch (ch as in couch).

WRONG !  WRONG !  WRONG !

>--Kees

Sven

Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: jkenton@world.std.com (Jeff Kenton)
Subject: Top Chessplayers
Organization: Kenton Systems Corporation, Weston MA
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 14:37:27 GMT



Can anyone (re)post or email me the list of the top rated
chessplayers in the world.  I know I've seen the top 100
here before.

Thanks.



-- 
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Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: Rod Malpert <ram4@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: Cancel "Interesting endgame"
X-Xxdate: Tue, 15 Sep 92 17: 08:28 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: ram4@cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 21:03:52 GMT

     I requested that my endgame with Grandmaster Rohde
be cancelled because:  (1) I did not like having a casual 
remark of his quoted; there was a misimpression that the 
article was posted "for Rod Malpert"; and (3) the dispute 
on the network about the draw offer was overshadowing 
interest in the endgame anyway.  Mr. Footman is not
 responsible for any of these problems.

     Mr. Footman was intrigued by the endgame, as were 
other spectators, and he determined by himself to post it.
Just before he did, I happened to learn of his intent when I 
contacted him about another matter.  I said that posting 
it was OK (I agree that my permission was not necessary)
and suggested that he start several moves earlier in the 
endgame to capture the more interesting part of it.  I gave 
him the moves,  casually commenting on some of them 
and quoting Grandmaster Rohde's opinion about one move.
I guess Mr. Footman reasonably assumed that I was 
annotating the game for the network, and so he included 
my comments and said that the game was posted "for Rod
Malpert."  This was not my intent.  I should have been 
clearer.
  
     The problem with quoting Grandmaster Rohde is that 
his comment was a casual post-mortem thought, not 
rigorously tested and not intended for worldwide posting.
A Grandmaster works hard to develop a reputation as an
analyst, and one should respect that idle comments are
not intended for publication.

     I also did not like the impression that I was the 
motivation for the posting of the endgame.  It looked 
like I was bragging.  In contrast, I would not resist 
having a third person post the game on his own, even
with assistance from me in getting the game score.
That is what happened.

     As for the general question of whether someone
should ever post his own games, here is my opinion 
(excuse me for not knowing the network's stated policy
if it has one).	 Publishing on the newtork is not the 
same as submitting a game to a journal because the 
network has no editor to screen bad games, excessive 
numbers of games from one person or annoying 
boastfulness.  Therefore, we should be conservative 
about posting our own games.
	
     This is all that I am going to say about this episode.
Now that I have my own access to the network, I look
forward to participating in substantive chess 
discussions.	
	
                                                Rod Malpert
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: gls@windmill.ATT.COM (the Human Windmill)
Subject: Re: the Thrush Gambit, or ignorance at the doorstop
Organization: Save the Dodoes Foundation
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 14:09:40 GMT

In <13551.2a9f0c58@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>, vancleef@ohstpy writes:
> > #
> > # I've used it myself, once.
> > # RETI OPENING.  W. R. Tallmadge -- Sicherman, Club Tnmt., Buffalo 1976.
> > # 1. A- S- 2. 7XXU 31 3. F A- 4. 3C N 5. 4 7XS 6. T 3X1 7. N- 7XI 8. 34 H-
> > # 9. 32 4
> > 
> > Golly, I think you better have your network transceiver checked for
> > intermittent parity errors.
> > 
> Don't be such a pompous ass. Maybe if you actually played checkers and
> were good at it (naw you are a chess master i guess) you might
> be able to decypher it. Please leave your ignorance at the doorstop.

It's humbling to be mistaken for a checkers player, but ignorance of
Smythescript knows no bounds!  Here's the same game in Old Notation:

RETI OPENING.  W. R. Tallmadge -- Sicherman, Club Tournament, Buffalo 1976.
1. d3 g6 2. Nf3 Bg7 3. e4 d6 4. Be2 c5 5. O-O Nc6 6. a4 Bd7 7. c3 Nf6 8. Bg5
h6 9. Be3 O-O.

I am not comfortable with positions like this, but nothing has gone wrong
so far.

10. Ne1 Qc7 11. f4 a6 12. Nd2 b5 13. d4 cd 14. cd Qb6 15. Nc2 Na5 16. d5
Qc7 17. Nd4 ba.

White has a space advantage but has trouble exploiting it.

18. Rc1 Qb7 19. Nc6.

A blunder.

19... N:c6 20. dc B:c6 21. Bf3 Rc8 22. R:c6.

Another blunder.

22... Q:c6 23. e5 Nd5 24. Bf2 de 25. Ne4 e6.

I have no idea why I played this.

26. Bc5 Rfd8 27. fe B:e5 28. Qd2 Bg7 29. Qf2.

Black's pieces defend awkwardly.

29... Qd7 30. Ba3 Rc4.

Not a brilliant move, but threatens 31... Bd4.

31. Kh1 Qc7 32. Nc5 Bd4.

This should win, but ...

33. Qh4 Bg1.

So that if 34. Q:c4 Q:h2#; nevertheless a weak move.

34. Ne4 Be3; 35. b3.

With the idea of 35... ab 36. Bb2.

35... Rc2 36. Rd1 Ra2 37. Bb4.

Taking advantage of the pin on the N.

37... Rd7 38. Bc3 Bg5.

The complications after 38... N:c3 are bewildering.

39. N:g5 Q:c3.

Of course not 39... hg 40. Qh8#.

40. Ne4 Qg7.

Cramped.  I have 22 minutes left now.

41. Nc5 g5 42. Qe1 Rd6 43. ba Qb2 44. Rb1.

Ouch!  I have 12 minutes to work my way through this.

44... Qf2 45. Rb8+ Kh7 46. Qb1+ Kg7 47. Ne4.

My material advantage is vanishing.  I must give up a N to save the R.

47... Nc3 48. N:c3 Rad2.

I have 3 minutes left.  White has 48, but is watching the clock and
not the board . . .

49. Ne4 Rd1+ 50. resigns.

And victory goes to "the second last blunder."

-:-
	"What are these wumps doing here in /usr/games?"

				--Jumber the Hulk, in _DEC Wars_
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
gls@windmill.att.COM
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: daweuste@rodan.acs.syr.edu (david a. weuste)
Subject: Network Chess
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 15:24:29 EDT

   Could anyone please post a list of sites I can play chess on,
   whether it be against people or a computer? The site I hooked
   up to last year seems to have relocated, But there's no adress
   given so I can't find it. Thanks.

Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: Rod Malpert <ram4@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re Cancel "Interesting endgame"
X-Xxdate: Tue, 15 Sep 92 17: 13:18 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: ram4@cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 21:08:23 GMT


Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 00:29:04 -0400 
From: Ron_Kownacki@transarc.com
Subject: "Loose" Games and "Lose" Pieces

Aaaaaarrrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhh!

Maybe this is a nit, but I have reached my personal breaking point!
You don't "loose" chess games, you lose them!  Moves don't "loose", they
lose!  Now sometimes you may
From: gondal@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Eric Eaton)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: ICS, where is it now?
Date: 8 Sep 92 03:47:26 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

Does anyone know where the Chess Server via internet is located now?

I've been away from school, and therefore the internet for a while, and
I'd like to get back on the server.

Please E-Mail the answer to this account, because I don't always read this
newsgroup.

Thanks in advance,
Eric Eaton
From: pope@gold.kpc.com (John Pope)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: FISCHER SPASSKY game 1 - comments
Date: 5 Sep 92 00:20:01 GMT
	<ovel.715618119@Minsk>
Organization: /nfs/gold/u/home/pope/.organization

A couple notes on the opening:

15.Bg5 h6 16.Bd2

        More usual is 15.a4 c5 16.d5 c4 17.Bg5 h6 18.Be3, but Fischer
        wants the B on d2 in preparation for his new b2-b4 idea.

16...Bg7 17.a4 c5

        A game Kuczynski-Kveinis Warsaw 1989 went 17...ed 18.cd c5 19.d5
        Nb6 20.Qc1 Kh7 21.Ba5 Nfd7 22.h4 with an edge.

18.d5 c4 19.b4!?

        Not only is this a novelty, but the whole idea of playing b2-b4
        with the black pawn on c4 seems to be new (there are tons of games
        where white plays b2-b4 with the BP on c5, though). For better or
        worse Spassky should probably have put the idea to the test with
        19...cb 20.Bb3 Nb6 (or maybe 20...Nc5), since after:


19...Nh7?! 20.Be3 (back here now that the Q-side space has been gained) h5
21.Qd2 Rf8 22.Ra3

        ...he got almost zero counterplay.

--
John Pope
pope@kpc.com
Kubota Pacific Computers, Inc.
(408) 987-3362
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: jhc@m2lll.uucp (James H. Coombs)
Subject: Re: Fischer-Spassky II
Reply-To: jhc@iris.brown.edu.UUCP (James H. Coombs)
Organization: IRIS - Brown University
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 07:03:50 GMT

In article <1992Sep6.064321.14472@cs.brown.edu> jhc@m2lll.UUCP (James H. Coombs) writes:
>In article <1574@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> mjn@ukc.ac.uk (M.J.Neish) writes:

>>If Fischer's Elo rating were wiped clean, then how decisively will he
>>have to beat Spassky to achieve a performance rating equivalent to his
>>old rating of 2785?

>Exactly the same as if his rating were not wiped clean: your current
>rating does not have anything to do with your performance rating.

It would probably be more helpful to post a formula.  The linear approximation
formula is good enough.

	Rp = Rc + 400(W - L) / N

	Rp := performance rating
	Rc := average rating of the competition
	W  := number of points won
	L  := number of points lost
	N  := number of games played

This gives us:

	Rp = Rc + 400(14.5 - 4.5) / 19
	Rp = Rc + 210

--Jim
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: Rennan.Barkana@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Rennan Barkana)
Subject: Fischer
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 23:17:01 GMT

Could someone give a few details about Fischer's childhood? I know nothing
about it except for the indications in the current Chess Life that make
me very suspicious...

Thanks,
Rennan Bar-Kana
barkana@steinhardt.hep.upenn.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
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: baljeual@uther.calvin.edu (Alan Baljeu)
Subject: Re: Prononciation Of Names
Organization: Calvin College
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 13:17:52 GMT


>| (Richard Nash) writes:
>| 
>| >| > Ruy Lupez - Roy Lou-Pez?
>| 
>| I thought it was "Ree ....
                                      __      _
The Oxford Dictionary of Chess gives Roo'-ee Lo'-peth

Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: kcy@meaddata.com (Cheong Yu)
Subject: Re: POC Dayton, OH chess
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 12:36:47 GMT
Reply-To: kcy@meaddata.com
Distribution: usa

In article <1992Sep14.134448.27088@afit.af.mil>, wbralick@afit.af.mil (Will Bralick) writes:
|> 
|> Rumor has it that there is a chess club in Dayton, OH.  Does anybody
|> have a point of contact (POC) for such?  Thanks in advance.
|> 

There are at least two chess clubs in the Dayton area.  The Dayton
Chess Club meets in the Dayton Public Library downtown and the
president/organizer is Earle Wikle (513) 698-6127.  The Roosevelt
Chess Club meets in the Roosevelt Senior Center (a few miles away from
downtown) and the president/organizer is Martha Adams (513) 263-4590.
Both of these clubs are having tournaments in October, so check the
latest issue of Chess Life for more info.

Sorry about posting this with the distribution of "usa" but I don't
think I can limit it to the midwest, and I didn't want to exclude our
friends in the Indiana and Kentucky areas.  BTW, for the Roosevelt
Open mentioned above, IM Igor Ivanov has played there in previous
years (don't know about this year).  And GM Gregory Kaidanov (sp?),
one of the U.S. highest rated players, lives in the Lexington, KY
area, so it's possible he might also be there.  The Roosevelt Open is
a Grand Prix event.

I do not belong to either of these chess clubs so I don't have any
more information than the above.

|> Regards,
|> 
|> -- 
|> Will Bralick                          |  If we desire to defeat the enemy,
|>              wbralick@afit.af.mil     |  we must proportion our efforts to 
|>              bralick@cs.psu.edu       |  his powers of resistance.
|> with disclaimer;  use disclaimer;     |               - Carl von Clauswitz

-- 
Cheong Yu             |                        |        (513) 865-7048
Mead Data Central     |                        |   Fax: (513) 865-1755
P.O. Box 933          |                        |      kcy@meaddata.com
Dayton, Ohio  45401   |                        |    uunet!meaddata!kcy


Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: bwatkins@nyx.cs.du.edu (The God of all machines)
Subject: Re: fischer-spassky
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 18:15:59 GMT


Indeed, the USA has wonderfull policies of allowing several open
tournaments' winners to play in its zonal.  I do not believe FIDE
requires this.  An all draw record will not win anything for you, how
ever.  It is certainly possible to fill up top spots so that a superior
player will never have a chance to play in the championships through
corrupt bargains with other players to throw games or play to draws.

Witness the USSR's players keeping fischer out of the championship
in the 60's.  "The Russians Fix World Chess"
From: jeff@econ.Berkeley.EDU (Jeffrey C. Ely)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: ICS suggestions
Date: 14 Sep 92 21:02:31 GMT
Organization: Chessnews list (chessnews-request@tssi.com)


A few suggestions for ICS:

	1.  Lately ICS has been very popular and at times there are as many
	as 60 (!) users logged on at a time.  This means that when those of us
	who are using giics with its tiny console type <who>, we get a big
	scroll and miss the top three-quareters of the list.  I know that the
	new command <players> makes this a bit less of a problem, but still
	there are instances in which one wants to see the list of all
	players including those who are not currently open for matches.  So 
	how about a <more> command to append onto various commands like
	<who> ?

	2.  Sometimes I am here at school reading r.g.c. and there is
	some interesting analysis posted that goes deeper than my (modest)
	ability to follow without a board.  Or maybe somebody has posted
	a game that i would like to see without waiting until i get home.
	It seems like it wouldn't be too difficult to create something like
	an analysis mode on ICS where players can simply move the pieces
	around or set up positions without having to be playing a game.
	Note that this would also be helpful during the F-S games when a
	new batch of moves comes in so that the position can quickly be
	reinstated and the moves played out by one person.

	3.  Finally, has anyone ever noticed that sometimes when you're
	playing a series of games against one person, you might get a long
	string of games with the same colors?  It may just be a 
	statistical disturbance, but still its kind of nice to alternate
	colors when two people are playing a series of games.  How about
	telling the server to recognize when two players have just
	finished a game and to switch the colors if they play again?
	There may even be a good way to let the players choose the colors but 
	I haven't thought of one.


+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++|+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Jeff Ely                         |    "He said the Sun's not yellow...  
Department of Economics          |     It's Chicken!" 
UC Berkeley        
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: jhc@m2lll.uucp (James H. Coombs)
Subject: Re: Which is the best chess program for a PC?
Reply-To: jhc@iris.brown.edu.UUCP (James H. Coombs)
Organization: IRIS - Brown University
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 05:40:41 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.033246.28684@ccu.umanitoba.ca> sdyck@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Sheldon Dyck) writes:

>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.

According to Computer Chess Reports, Grand Master Chess is a
mass-market version of Zarkov.  As I recall, GM plays slightly weaker
because of the cycles given up to the interface.  ChessMaster 3000 is
significantly weaker than Zarkov.

I have never seen either, but I suspect that the best choice of the two
is GM.

--Jim
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: harold@byron.u.washington.edu (Harold Bobroff)
Subject: More name pronunciation
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 03:34:12 GMT

   Has "Maroczy" yet been mentioned?  I've pondered that one for quite 
some time.  Speaking of whom, I read a piece in a local rag which claimed
that Viktor Korchnoi had recently defeated Maroczy in a match played via a
medium of some sort!  According to the article, Maroczy died in 1951.  Is 
this story for real?
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Fischer-Karpov
From: evans@vax.sonoma.edu
Date: 14 Sep 92 16:30:20 -0800
Organization: Sonoma State University

If everyone already knows this, my apologies...

The local newspaper reported that Fischer has bought all the books a 
certain chess publisher has on the games of Karpov. With the talk of 
another match for Fischer in the works, perhaps this could imply a 
Fischer-Karpov matchup in the future.

Bela 			evans@sonoma.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess