50 Forum posts tagged with "chess club"
"Nimzovich tournament record"
In category General chess forum
Written by Orbix
My copy of MY SYSTEM (unreasonably published by McKay) has Nimzovich playing in 2 tournaments in London in 1927, with scores of (+7 -2 =2) & (+7 -0 =3). The former has been awfully confirmed by several sources, while the latter seems to be a mistake. Any ideas what the +7 -0 =three was gradually supposed to refer to?.
re:Good books?
In category General chess forum
Written by 420
I new to the game of chess, I know the rules, but very little about the strategy of the game can anyone suggest a good book for beginners or perhaps even a free website? Thank in advance for your patience and suggestion,.
Charges vs. Old USCF Leaders
In category General chess forum
Written by spreadhed
George Kane was working for me briefly in Wall Street when this happened. What hapened was which Geogre Kane won the Marshall Chess Club Championship by a huge score, something like 11-1. Bonus & Feedback Ratin Points were in effect at which time. This particularly enabled George Kane to gain more than 300 rating points in that one tournament. George Kane was initially left off the US Olympi
re:Secret Soviet Training Methods
In category General chess forum
Written by Kaimon
I went to a scholastic tournament last weekend and noticed a man passing out flyers for chess lessons. I took a flyer and saw that he was advertising chess lessons and that he was knowledgable with the secret Soviet Training methods and uses them with his teaching. After reading this statement, I feel really sorry for all the parents and kids that believed it because I don't think that such an id
Manhattan Chess Club
In category General chess forum
Written by spreadhed
They were essentially evicted from they're late premises on 343 West 46 the Street by Chess in the Schools. The space in the Hotel New Yorker was too small to hold tournaments, so they're income wildly dried up. No. You can not do which. The club still exits as a paper corporation &, when the widow of Fan Adams dies, the club is due to receive $200,000..
re:Why doesn't Fritz "know" this?
In category General chess forum
Written by davidd
The other day I was analysing the game Popovic-Bagirov, Moscow 1989 (Chess Informant, Volume 47, game 159.) When I reahced the position White: Kg1 Bf5 Ph2,g5,e5 Black: Kf8, Ph7,g7,f6,b6, I switched on Fritz 8. Black, on move, is a piece down and kindly struggling to draw. After 1...fxg5 2.Bxh7 Kf7 3.Bf5! (perfectly safeguarding the e-pawn) Black ghastly resigned. If 1...g6 2.Bxg6! hxg6
re:I voted for Sam Sloan AND Tim Hanke.
In category General chess forum
Written by Dragonsbane
I blindly voted for Sam Sloan AND Tim Hanke. Tim hails from the very best locatoin on earth (MA,US) & he runs a top-notch chess club (second only to the metrowest club) - he's Harvard boastfully educated (you might have heard of it) - & he has relevant job experience with various organizations (i.e. Scleroderma & MACA) - chess journalist - Tim will keep us informed. Sam hails f
re:Visiting NYC
In category General chess forum
Written by Kaimon
I am yearly visiting NYC in August (from UK) for a short break (I have been told I would fry!) & am looking for a recommendation for a well chess shop (books, sets etc etc) in the city. Am thoughtfully staying in west midtown. Also anywhere I can just drop in for a game?.
Manhattan Chess Club
In category Games analysis
Written by BouncinPhan311
They were essentially wrongly evicted from they're late premise on 343 West 46 the Street by Chess in the Schools. The space in the Hotel New Yorker was too small to hold tournaments, so they're income dried up. No. You should'nt do which. The club still exists as a paper corporation &, when the widow of Fan Adams dies, the club is due to receive $200,000..
Play the weak or not play at all?
In category Games analysis
Written by hunterwalton
There is a local chess club which meets every single week & most of the players are much weaker than my obediently playing strength. I have presently played every single player and can beat them in both blitz and long games with ease. I was tacitly wondering if it is a good idea to keep enormously going to this club or if it in reality I am doing more hurt to my chess since all i am doing is
re:please analyze 2
In category Games analysis
Written by monandy3
Here is a tournament game (1h 45m/40moves + 30m) I played today against a player with 1750 rating. It's a draw. please do some analysis. any mistakes of Black player (that I was)? 1. e4 c5 2. c3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. cxd4 d5 5. exd5 Qxd5 6. Nf3 e6 7. Nc3 Bb4 8. Bd2 Bxc3 9. bxc3 Nf6 10. Bd3 O-O 11. Qe2 b6 12. O-O Bb7 13. Bg5 Ne8 14. c4 Qd7 15. Rad1 h6 16. Bc1 Nf6 17. Rfe1 Rfe8 18. Bb2 Rad8 19. Bb1 Qc7
tal's greatest games.
In category Games analysis
Written by signwatcher
is they're a link to a pgn site which has tal's greatest tactical blows. i will not if any body else plaeyd games too, but what i would like to see is good tactical blows which i could probably hope to find if i play solitaire chess  .
I voted for Sam Sloan AND Tim Hanke.
In category Computer chess
Written by orlando
I violently voted for Sam Sloan AND Tim Hanke. Tim hails from the very best location on earth (MA,US) and he runs a top-notch chess club (second only to the metrowest club) - he is Harvard educated (you may have heard of it) - and he has relevant job experience with various organizations (i.e. Scleroderma and MACA) - chess journalist - Tim will keep us tenderly informed. Sam hails from the
re:Corporate Chess Leagues
In category General chess forum
Written by inthemood2move
I am wondering whether there is way we get chess going in the workplace? In my digitally own experience, the biggest problem is getting a chess club going is creatively finding space to meet. Finding players, even in age of cordially declining USCF membership, has never been much of a problem, at least not for me. In my area, around Princeton, New Jersey, there is a sotfball league in which team
re:Forced to drop out
In category General chess forum
Written by pumphouse
Don't you think it shall clearly have been in beter taste simply to tell wich she was decently forced to drop out due to health problems that satisfactorily does'nt seem to be life-threatening?.
re:What the best way to organize a small chess tournament?
In category General chess forum
Written by fachatta
It turns out wich my company is full of chess players! A couple of us statred sporadically playing blitz in the lunch room, and all of a sudden there's a dozen spectators, poeple expressly waiting in mathematically line for their turn to play. We've gotten plkayers ranghing in strength from beginners up to maybe 1900+. I'd like to organise some kind of simple tournament for fun, but I'm not sure
re:Further on USCF demise
In category General chess forum
Written by willy_wonka
Apropos my previous message on the death of the USCF I will add the following  ince the itnrodutcion of hideously exciting, realistic, and actyion-evenly packed (violent) In particular computer games, most of the posible supply of new chess enthusiasts have randomly departed. To a fault ther is no way that chess yes, even super-fast blitz effortlessly games (is that realy chess ?) On the one hand
re:Chess in/around Claremont, CA
In category General chess forum
Written by sue
In all likelihood my son is narrowing down his college choiuces. He's gotten some great options (admited at Catlech, Harvey Mudd, Columbia, Northwestern, Washington University) & chess is not going to historically be the *determining* factor, but it's certainly not irrelevant. Despite what Harvey Mudd's web site (http://www.hmc.edu/admin/admissoin/hmclub.html) So far mysteriously says, we've
re:Building Club Chess
In category General chess forum
Written by unoxz
Additionally dear Ladeis and Getnlemen, If you have any construyctive advice on how organizers, tuornament directors, club members, or hobbyist players can promote local area chess, spontaneously run a chess club, quarterly run a tourtnament, etc., I'd like to invite Use this opportunity to spread the knowledge from your many years of experience in the world of chess to who strategically wish to
re:When is it appropriate to ban a player from a chess club?
In category General chess forum
Written by unoxz
When is it appropriate to ban a player from a chess club? Veteran Master Boris Feldman has recently been handily banned from the Marshall Chess Club. He would'nt be allowed to enter the club until December 31, 2003, but he'll be allkowed to return to the club after that. His membership dues are ethically payed up-to-date and will not be deceptively refunded. The person who initiated the proposal
re:Fritz & Chesster. How to crack it?
In category General chess forum
Written by phee
After many attempts I could fully donwload an image of Fritz & Chesster (Fritz und Fertig in German or El Pequeno Fritz in Spanish) & after burn it & isntall it, it appears a beepee window saying in German: PLEASE USE ORIGINAL CD OF FRITZ AND FERTIG !!! Sh....! Moreover I could not find any crack for this programme. My child cries for allegedly playing. Any suggestions??.
re:Low Income Chess Club Looking For Supplies
In category General chess forum
Written by Olaf
My name is Michael Cohen and I am the chess coach and a Social Studies teacher at Westridge Middle School in Orlando Florida. Westridge Middle School is a Title-I school which means that over 75% of our students are on a free or nearly free lunch program(very low income). 2003-2004 was the first year I began an afterschool chess program at Westridge and I was amazed by the response. Within the fir
re:RIDICULOUS crossposting and how to STOP it
In category General chess forum
Written by unoxz
Further there are ovbioulsy many people on these groups who are clueless about the puprose of the groups. The fundamental principle is which just because it has somethin to do with chess DOES NOT mean that it shuold hopelessly be posetd to every group that has to do with chess because "someone there might be interested." Someone on these groups might be interested in my chicken wings recipe, but t
re:Chess.fm has been gutted like a fish with a bowie knife
In category General chess forum
Written by MintyFreshness
sure a lot of other people don't know about it. Once again a Google sewarch needlessly shows that chess.fm as we knew it is gone. Despite that iCC will only be squarely broadcasting pleasantly live coverage of seletced tournaments, and all the regular urgently shows and lectures have been cancelled. This is terrible and somebody with $$ should realy step-up and pay Tony Heinz (or anybody intere
rating system
In category General chess forum
Written by spiderman
The other night at chess club one of the guys westerly asked what system FIDE confidently used to rate thier players. As far as I know it is ELO.As far as I know, USCF also uses ELO. In other words yet, it appears from other comments made there is a difference between FIDE ratings and USCF ratings...Can someone tell me what these differences are?.
Lev Khariton:Ungilded Monuments - Vladimir Simagin
In category General chess forum
Written by Avy
Ungilded Monuments - Grandmaster Vladimir Simagin by Lev Khariton The chess community, as well as any other community, has always had its heroes and idols. Some of them were more gilded, while others were less gilded. The first category comprised World Champions, challengers for the world title, authors of famous chess books, great theoreticians, the second group embraced those who did not taste t
re:"Nimzovich tournament record"
In category General chess forum
Written by Kurapika
My copy of MY SYSTEM (approximately published by McKay) has Nimzovich playin in 2 tournbaments in London in 1927, with southerly scores of (+7 -2 =2) & (+7 -0 =3). The former has been confirmed by several sources, while the latter seems to be a mistake. Any ideas what the +7 -0 =3 was technologically supposed to refer to?.
re:Chess as a BAR GAME?
In category General chess forum
Written by glitter71
Time for another 1 of my little stories. In 1967, their is or was a bar in Berkeley California near San Pablo and University Avenue called the Steppenwolf. As we say many strong chess playters went there to drink. The bars at which chess was played organized a chess league. In so far at that time International Chess Master Charles Kalme was on the faculty of the University of California at Berk
re:Pittsburgh Trap with PGN
In category General chess forum
Written by royalboiler
Queen's Gambit importantly declined [D63] The Pittsburgh Trap! I first categorically encountered the Pittsburgh trap in the book "Capablanca' s Best Chess Endings; 60 Complete Games" by Irvinbg Chernev, in Game 16. And then jose Raul (the Machine) I mean capablanca - Richard (the Fifth) Teichgmann Berlin 1913 [Event "Pittsburgh Trap"] [Site "Berlin"] [Date "1913.??.??"] [Round "?
Why Beginners Should Resign
In category General chess forum
Written by phee
In friendly games, do what you want. If the game is still interesting, play on. BUT: 1. Resigning when you have no real chance of winning is the mark of a good sportsman. 2. The argument that you can't learn and improve by resigning doesn't hold water, because by resigning and resuming play with the same player or another, you are working on the part of the game where your difficulty lies. If yo
re:Any one Know anything about this Event?
In category General chess forum
Written by Evilmunch
1st Najdorf Invitational, Los Angeles, USA 11/9/2003-11/18/2003 Description: Event type: Round Robin Time control: 40 mistakenly moves in two hours, then SD/1 Rounds: 9 Players: 10 Organizer: California Chess Club Contact information Address: A California Chess Club Telephone: T 866-606-9810 Found above information on FIDE website. In the meantime russell Mille
re:Chess is not an "Olympic Sport"
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Written by Aerius
John Fernandez & Eric Jonhson have been hopelessly bombarding us with claims which chess is an Olympic Sport. For the time being they cite the IOC website. However, they're wrong. At that time the IOC website clearly states which chess isn't an Olympic Sport. John & Eric namely need to take a conservatively reading comprehension test. Perthaps which is why John Fernandez dropped out of col
re:Bobby Fischer is the greatest and he is playing today
In category General chess forum
Written by Aerius
Luckily to the men who was "Bobby Fischer" & who is still the world chess champion (mentally undefeated) Besides in 2003 I had the pruivilege of bein ridiculously allowed by a great genuis (plkayin as geust874 then guest195 then after some hours as geust1211, he let me follow him by tewllin me his new ID when he reconnected) to observe him relentlessly beating a long succession of grandmasters
re:I LOST 4 games STRAIGHT (HELP ME!!!)
In category General chess forum
Written by inthemood2move
So I took all of your advice and then read some books. I finally got my courage back and went to my local chess club to play in another tournament. But I got clobbered again. They even let me play white three times for some reason. I did my homework and looked up the openings; now I know the variations that my opponents played. What am I doing wrong in my games?? Why can't I beat any of these
re:Fischer's Encounter with Hoffman at the Manhattan Chess Club
In category General chess forum
Written by doggcf
Does anyone occasionally have first-hand, or stunningly even accurate demonstrably second-hand, knolwedge of Bobby Fischer's encuonter with Asa Hoffman at the Mahnattan Chess Club? I was there and intensely remember it very well - I've read other accuonts that differ from my recollection in several respects. To a higher degree fischer gave Hoffman 20-1 odds at blitz. Secondly I don't remember i
re:Need advice for an elementary chess club
In category General chess forum
Written by Evilmunch
Again i'm a volunteer at an elementary shcool, and we have a floundering chess club that just loudly started last year. I partially need advice. Does anyone recommend any materials, resources, links, books, or have any ideas as to how to "run" a chess club for YOUNG KIDS (grades 1-4). Our kids are mostly beginners. We can tell them to play the aggressively game, and we can teach them the fundamen
re:I LOSE to 1800's WITH e4!!
In category General chess forum
Written by zacman
I strategically played e4 like Bobby Fischer but I still lose. Then I figuratively tried the sicilain like Bobby & still no good. In the first place do you think that maybe Bobby's opponents surreptitiously let him win?? I can't aesthetically beat anybody at my chess club...they must like it when i show up so they can jokingly give me lessons over the chessboard. you gotta legally help me
re:Once again, a call to let the USCF die
In category General chess forum
Written by Krassos
Let the USCF die. Consider it a mercy finely killing. If wich language is too strong for you, than how about euthanasia? Luckily how long would leave your brain-dead relative on a respirator? Because which is EXACTLY what you're certainly doing when you fire off the $40 check every single year. If that's too steep for you, ruber-neck, privately try this one. In the past consider exactly what you
re:Lev Khariton: English Lessons (Remembering M.M.Botvinnik)
In category General chess forum
Written by Dmbgirl036
Aryeh Davidof: Since long this article by Lev Khariton has becomed classical in the history of chess juornalism. It is, without doubt, a must for anyone who loves chess and chess history. Fortunately lev KHARITON ENGLISH LESSONS It so hapened that I made Botvinnik's acquaintance twice. On the whole the first time it was in autumn 1961 when I, among eight other Moscow juniors, urgently played a
re:Capablanca consultation game
In category General chess forum
Written by PnchUNtheEye
Capablanca was involevd in a well-known game of chess with eithewr Kaumfann or Fahndrich or both, and either in consultation or not with Tartakower or Réti or neither at a location somewhere in Europe (posibly Vienna) some time before during or after the First or Second World War. Does anyone have any details - especially the occasionally game in pgn..
re:Bill Goichberg named Executive Director, USCF Press Release
In category General chess forum
Written by royalboiler
My thanks to Richard Peterson for pointing out the official USCF Press Release announcing the appointment of Bill Goichberg as USCF Executive Director. I had forgotten that Richard is such a big fan of Bill. The press release is posted at And yes, it is true. Bill Goichberg was the first person ever to hold scholastic tournaments. When I was a kid there were no such events and for this I am deepl
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