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  CHESS LIFE ANNUALS,HB,47 DIFFERENT 1961-2007 ENDING ON EBAY!!         


Author: knightrider
Date: Jul 6, 2008 18:50

Beautiful run of Chess Life Annuals ending in less than 24 hours!
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  And you thought postal chess was slow....         


Author: J.D. Walker
Date: Jul 6, 2008 17:14

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  Re: In defense of chess variants         


Author: Mats Winther
Date: Jul 6, 2008 01:43

>
> 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:
>>
>> "Ironically enough, it may be that the elevation of the chess queen
>> and the bishop to new levels of strength had something to do with the
>> dwindling numbers of female participants. Once those two pieces
>> acquired a greater range of mobility, it took fewer moves, on average,
>> to complete a match. New chess was no longer suited to leisurely
>> encounters between ladies and gentlemen that could last a day or more,
>> with interruptions for eating, drinking, dancing, and singing, or, in
>> more plebian settings, for stirring the pot and nursing the baby. New
>> chess was fast and fierce. A match could be over in a few hours or
>> even a few moves if you didn't pay strict attention. Hands had to be ...
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  GetClub will play like Human Beings.         


Author: Sanny
Date: Jul 5, 2008 02:10

Now, you play at GetClub you will feel as if playing against an Human
Opponent.

It will make a few moves quickly while think longer on harder moves.

So you will not have to wait longer in simple positions and in hard
position GetClub will think longer to give best move possible.

This way GetClubs overall Strength has increased a bit. As in simple
cases long analysis is not reqired. Like when Exchanging pieces.

Play Chess at: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html

Now, Easy Level will play much stronger game and I have not found Help
Bot playing against it recently.

Help Bot tell me how you feel about the new improvements. Have a game
with Easy Level and see how you face it.

Bye
Sanny

Play Chess at: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html
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  Re: Loons and the Law         


Author: help bot
Date: Jul 4, 2008 23:36

On Jul 4, 12:16 pm, FSS wrote:
>> Well, at least we don't hear the FSS coming here telling everyone how Sam
>> and I are its bitches.
>
> You don't hear it? You mean you really haven't got it figured how we did
> it?
>
> Now you do hear it. "The two of you are my bitches", Raytard.
>
> Il mittente di questo messaggio|The sender address of this
> non corrisponde ad un utente |message is not related to a real
> reale ma all'indirizzo fittizio|person but to a fake address of an
> di un sistema anonimizzatore |anonymous system
> Per maggiori informazioni |For more info
> Poor innocent Paul, I feel bad |he was collateral damage.

Can anyone help this poor, demented fool?
There must be some drug, some treatment
for this disorder--no?

-------------------------------------------------------------

Alas, while we continue to continue to wait
for the courts to do their thing (whatever that
might be), how about we roast a few marsh-
mallows over the fire? We can sit around
telling chilling tales...
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  wthyde1953@gmail.com         


Author: Chess One
Date: Jul 4, 2008 14:02

When, Sir, do you intend to become Chessville's history columnist?

I do not offer you an editorial position because they are (a) usually
possesed by persons of abstract ability, in other words, wankers, and (ii)
you will need no editing whatever.

And when you consider the (3) vast possibilities of this as a second carear,
you will naturally shrink from it, since it is unpaid, contentious work, in
fact unlikeable, and requiring monthly contributions on a strictly regular
basis.

So... there you have it! I think I may not speak plainer, though, since your
origins are Saxon it is remarkable how much plainer one needs to be.

If the above unpaid, unheralded and unprincipaled prospect, this
thingee-of-worms, and 'submissions' [gawd! in itself an off-putting term]
have not convinced you, then I think its fair to challenge you to what would
off-put you more?

All replies held within strictest confidence, bar Chessville's senior editor
[here copied, but who should shut his gob] who of course we agree to
subvert, circumvent, as dread pirates and historians are wont to do... but
of pirates ...
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  CHESS LIFE ANNUALS,HB,47 DIFFERENT,1961-2007 on EBAY!!         


Author: knightrider
Date: Jul 4, 2008 00:54

Less than 4 days left to bid on this awesome run of Chess Life
Annuals!
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  FISCHER-PETROSIAN 1971 CANDIDATES MATCH POSTER on EBAY!!         


Author: knightrider
Date: Jul 4, 2008 00:08

Beautiful poster from the 1971 Buenos Aires match!
Less than two days remaining!
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  Check and Mate         


Author: parrthenon
Date: Jul 3, 2008 19:44

After rescuring 15 FARC hostages in Columbia without bloodshed, the
commander of "Operation Jaque" declared triumphantly: "To the FARC.
Jaque y mate!"
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  Re: The Polgar "Resignation Offer"         


Author: samsloan
Date: Jul 3, 2008 06:32

by jlemoine on Thu Jul 03, 2008 2:06 am
My take on this story:

In a dramatic challenge to President Goichberg and the rest of her
opponents, Susan Polgar offered to resign from the USCF Executive
Board Monday provided they (1) "give me the FULL CONSENT to release
all information to ALL USCF members" and (2) " If I cannot prove what
I said is true then I will resign immediately."

The other half of the challenge: "However, if I can prove that what I
said is true then President Goichberg would resign from the board
immediately."

Read the thread for the "what I said" part. These statements contain
significant revelations.

Polgar has been complaining for months that she possesses major
information that she is unable to disclose to the public only because
of Board confidentiality requirements. On the other hand, she has also
stated in the past that she has had to withhold information on the
advice of her lawyer, so the stonewalling cannot be laid entirely at
Bill Goichberg's door.
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