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On Dec 24, 8:23 am, onech...@comcast.net wrote:

Dr. Blair was certainly capable of clod, icy logic;
however, when /choosing/ which quotations to
include and which to exclude, he was every bit
as human as the rest of us.

On Dec 24, 2:23 am, Mike Murray despammed.com> wrote:

Well, it looks as though you've forgotten about the
silver miners entirely.

The truth is, the methods of "killing" the un-dead
vary considerably, depending on whom you ask.

I must have missed the one flick to which Mr.
Parr refered, having seen /many/ in which the
poor, um, creature, is turned to dust. Personally,
I think the poor chap is a bit batty, for they would
never have killed off Dracula in a Lon Chaney film,
as that could make for a very boring sequel. Last
I can recall, there raged a fierce battle betwixt the
Wolfman and Frankenstein-- with no clear-cut
result. Dracula wasn't even in the flick; he
probably asked for too much money, or top billing,
or too many expensive perks (women, coffins, silk
capes, etc.).

As my seven-year-old daughter is now a "premium scholastic member", I
just received the December 2008 issue of "Chess Life for Kids".

The cover is terrible, awful, horrible, the worst cover I have ever
seen on any publication of any kind anywhere.

I want to know who authorized or ordered this. The cover is so bad I
do not even want to open the magazine.

Actually, the inside of the magazine is OK.

The cover features two completely dark and blurry photographs. The top
photo is completely out of focus. I have no idea what this is. Looking
inside the magazine, there is no information as to what this is a
picture of.

The bottom photo is of a bunch of Asian kids wearing dark shirts and,
since the background is black too, just about the only thing you can
see is their faces. Inside the magazine there is little information as
to who these kids are or why their pictures are on the cover.

The inside does not say exactly who is the editor of the magazine who
did this. Whomever did this should have nothing to do with
publications in the future. Bill Hall's name is at the top. Does that
mean he authorized this?

In another thread JMVW drw my attention to a site that has all the
FIDE rules.
The section about adjourned games is hardly used any more
http://www.chess11.com/Adjourned%%20Games.php
but there was one rule that always puzzled me:

A8. Except in the cases mentioned in Article 6.10 and 9.6, the game is
lost by a player whose recording of his sealed move
1. is ambiguous, or
2. is recorded such that its true significance is impossible to
establish, or
3. is illegal.

"The game is lost by a player whose sealed move is recorded such that
its true significance is impossible to establish."

When I first read that I thought it meant that if you sealed a move
that had no meaning, a totally irrelevant move, then you would be
forfeited!

On Dec 24, 9:55 am, sdowd...@gmail.com wrote:

Perhaps. But there are other activities that should disqualify the
First Couple - remember the Mottershead Report?

On Dec 15, 5:00 pm, Mike Murray despammed.com> wrote:

On Dec 24, 8:22 am, chessparrot hotmail.com> wrote:

It seems fitting to give one of Myers' best games in memoriam.
Chessbase says it was 1956, but Myers himself says it was played in
January 1957. His opponent, William Lombardy, won the World Junior
Championship around this time with an 11-0 score, and would soon be
one of America's top GMs and a second for Fischer in 1972.

On Dec 24, 8:22 am, chessparrot hotmail.com> wrote:

Here are Edward Winter's comments on his passing:

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/index.html#5909._Hugh_Myers

Bill,

My mediation offer was and still is solely for the USCF and not all
the parties. This was made very clear to you a number of times.
However, I am not completely against the idea of including the board
members. My position is still the same as it was earlier this year in
Tulsa. It is not applicable to other defendants. Other parties can
contact my attorneys directly if they would like to make a settlement
offer.

Susan Polgar

In a message dated 12/20/2008 10:22:04 P.M. Central Standard Time,
Chessoffice writes:

The EB Legal Subcommittee, most others named in the Texas lawsuit,
and our attorneys have been discussing the possibility of mediation
and we hope to have a decision soon. Although direct talks showed the
two sides to have completely opposite positions with no apparent
possibility of compromise, I believe that there is always a chance
that any dispute can be settled through mediation, and it should not
be ruled out.