CHESS REDESIGN Mats raises issues that have concerned me for some time. I came back to chess after a 25 year layoff. I left the game as a NM 2235 USCF. When I came back to chess, it had radically changed. I spent about six months exploring the new chess world in a process of deciding if chess had anything worthwhile for me today. As a result, I decided to formally retire from...

Reports indicate that astronaut Greg Chamitoff is defeating ground controllers in Houston's Mission Control at chess!

In a message dated 8/20/2008 8:08:04 AM Pacific Daylight Time, writes: Subj: Chess Fed of Canada quits publishing its magazine Date:8/20/2008 8:08:04 AM Pacific Daylight Time Things are even worse north of the border. You may ask, "Worse? how can it be worse?" I asked the same question. But it is.

As some people here know, I am designing an accredited chess course for initially home schooled students, then opened up as a distance learning course for all students. The age range is k-12, and there is a beginners course to acquaint players with basics, then an Intermediate course which should suffice players or any age to at least 1500 level play. For high-school students the 36 lesson...

Someone in Texas acquired the following books that apparently came from the sale of items in Bobby Fischer's storage when the rent wasn't paid by his California agent. Chess Catechism by Larry Evans: “To Bobby Fischer – The next World Champion. May you win your games at life. Larry Evans Nov. 1970 PALMA” How to Open a Chess Game by Larry Evans, et al: “February, 1975, To Boby Fischer With best...

I know it's no substitute for playing, but I'm a big reader when it comes to learning new things, so I like having books on the subject as well. I have read Learn Chess: A Complete Course and am reading Logical Chess: Move By Move. The former I found extremely helpful in learning the basics, but at the same time very tedious with all the move lists. It wasn't exactly "readable" at times...

After 3 rounds, Morozevich is in clear first at the 2008 Tal Memorial with a performance of 3019! With this results, he is closing the gap to the world's number 1 ranking. According to the LIVE rating, Anand is at 2798 and Morozevich is at 2796.3! Poor Shirov has lost 3 straight. US W Ch Kamsky hopeful lsot the first game with white, won the next with black, drew 3rd. Standings after 3...

Sanny; Here are some standard test positions for you to use with GetClub chess. The classic Bratko-Kopec test and the Win-At-Chess test. There are many other test sets, but these are classics that most people use. The Bratko-Kopec tests are particularly intersting, since they've been around so long and so many programs have done it. They aren't extensive enough, which is why people use...

CHESS REDESIGN – V 0.1 Consider the following idea. You arrive at your favorite chess hangout and see someone new sitting in a corner. He appears to be an out-of-towner. You go over and invite him to play. He counters your proposal with an offer to play a new type of chess. Somewhat puzzled, you agree. You ask him to explain what he has in mind.

Would you recommend this book for someone like me, who is still learning the basics? It sounds good since it mixes a bunch of different types of problems, but it also sounds like it might be too difficult for me since it doesn't offer much guidance. Right now I'm finding Logical Chess very fascintating, because it *does* offer guidance for every single move. Each game almost reads like a...

MAJOR US BANK "TO FAIL WITHIN MONTHS" -- GM Ken Rogoff I read this piece by GM Ken Rogoff at www.antiwar.com (a conservative, libertarian site against our expensive wars around the world). The coming inflation, as the marketplace catches up with the money printing machines, will be a sad thing for many Americans. And, as we well know, the rubes will blame the Arabs or Islam for the fed's...

I'm studying Giuoco Piano right now and I have a question about how to play when Black doesn't follow the first few moves. For example: 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 If, instead of 2...Nc3, Black plays something (other than 2...Nf6) that does not protect his e5 pawn, should White play 3 Nxe5? I mean, this is the reason you attack the pawn in the first place, but it also seems to violate the rule of moving...

Has anyone found the Bagniev Method worth the time and effort to learn? Thanks in advance for any info/experiences anyone has.

David Richerby wrote: M. Winther wrote: "In defense of chess as a party game" Chess during the medieval era was a very popular parlour game, especially among the upper classes. But by the turn of the seventeenth century it was no longer fashionable. Marilyn Yalom says:

While exploring Rusbase I found this tournament in particular - it is significant that the previous year Tal won it 2 points clear, then as they say, came this: Readers wishing to play through games or even download them go to http://www.ruschess.com/Rusbase/USSR/1973.html One noticeable factor is the very high draw rate, especially among the top boards. Spassky demonstrated the worth of...

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A big bug was found and removed. Now it will not show awkward scores. I was very worried it used to show +2 benefit in equal positions. Now it show 0.02 in equal position. So the Scores will be correct as per the position of the board. That was a great Bug which give 2 pawn losses in equal positions.

THE DANGER IS REAL M. Winther wrote: Fide-chess is facing a problem. Undoubtedly the game will survive, but professional chess faces a predicament due to the theoretical development. The topic of destroying chess to save it was addressed in THIS CRAZY WORLD OF CHESS by GM Larry Evans.

Who knows this book: Israel Gelfer: 'Positional Chess Handbook. 495 Instructive Positions from Grandmaster Games'. Is it a good book? PW

FROM JIM RENDEK, NEW BEDFORD, MA. I'm not a player of any real strength but have been re-infected by the chess bug which bit me in my youth. I recently read THIS CRAZY WORLD OF CHESS and greatly enjoyed it. Thanks to GM Larry Evans for all the articles he has published. Whenever his name is attached, I always take the time to read it.