On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:56:58 +0200, Anonymous Remailer
wrote:

I see that Garry Kasparov has come in #18 in the list of the world's
"Top 100 Public Intellectuals" compiled by Prospect and Foreign Policy
magazines. The list includes Noam Chomsky (#11), Al Gore (#12),
Umberto Eco (#14), Amartya Sen (#16), Mario Vargas Llosa (#20), Jürgen
Habermas (#22), Vaclav Havel (#26), and many others.

Here's the list:

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10261

A bit about how it was compiled, including the surprising result this
year that "every name in the top ten would be from a Muslim
background." (This was not the case at all in the 2005 version of the
list.):

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10262

For comparsion, you might see the 2005 version of the list, courtesy
of Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_2005_Global_Intellectuals_Poll

All rather interesting....

(: {B} Bishop Berkeley {B} :)

I played out the following game under informal conditions between
GitClub Easy and MyChess set to Level 4. This was unscientific and
subject to error, of course. Both sides played on the same machine, a
dual-core 2.6 GHz with 4Gb of memory, nothing else running. MyChess
was running on DosBox emulation at 3000 cycles speed setting. Ignore
the timings below -- they are more a function of how fast I typed in
moves or whether I took breaks. In general GitClub played about five
times more slowly than MyChess. I selected MyChess level 4 because
that is the lowest level at which supposedly MyChess is decent (or so
I read somewhere) but that appears not to be the case! MyChess was
taking perhaps 5 seconds for a typical move.

We can't draw a lot of conclusions from this game given the unbalanced
and uncontrolled playing conditions. Still, we can observe:

I played Beginner. I played Handicap Level and got a Knight Extra.

At GetClub with Handicap Level you can turn any level with a Knight/
Bishop/ Rook/ Queen Extra.

I thought that beginer without a Knight will be easy for me to win.

But when I played the game Beginner gave me Check Mate even without a
Knight.

And that too in just 11 Moves.

Rember I was having a Knight Extra. Still Beginner was able to win the
game.

Game Played between sanjay11 and beginner_x_N at GetClub.com

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sanjay11: (Black)
beginner_x_N: (White)
Game Played at: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html
View Recorded Game: http://www.getclub.com/playgame.php?id=DM22495&game=Chess
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White -- Black
(beginner_x_N) -- (sanjay11)

Here is what happened when I set the world's
strongest chess program, Rybka, as best I
could to simulate a Knight-odds match versus
GetClub... .

First, Rybka takes on the new "Baby" level:

1. Nb1-a3{12} e7-e5{0}
2. Na3-b5{4} Nb8-c6{4}
3. Nb5-d6{8} Bf8-d6{2}

Please note that I deliberately gave away the
White Knight, before handing things over to
Rybka.