*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ IECC CHESS BITS & PIECES *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ Published by the International Email Chess Club Devoted solely to E-Mail Correspondence Chess *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ Volume 1, Issue 12 September 1995 *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ Editor: Philip Cavanagh ui423@freenet.victoria.bc.ca *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ THE FOUNDER'S CORNER By Lisa Powell ********************************************************************* I like this bit from "The Life of Sir William Osler," by Harvey Cushing. The excerpt was written May 2, 1905, hence the quaint language. "I have three personal ideals, One, to do the day's work well and not to bother about tomorrow ... The second ideal has been to act the Golden Rule, as far as in me lay, toward my professional brethren and toward the patients committed to my care. And the third has been to cultivate such a measure of equanimity as would enable me to bear success with humility, the affection of my friends without pride, and to be ready when the day of sorrow and grief came to meet it with the courage befitting a man." For those of you not well versed about this British physician, Sir William was born in 1849; was a professor of medicine at McGill, Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins and Oxford universities. He did significant work on diseases of of the heart and blood. Bibliotheca Osleriana is located at McGill Univeristy. He was curator of Oxford's Bodleian library, trustee of Radcliffe and delegate of the Clarendon Press. None of which has anything to do with chess -- except perhaps to suggest that the human spirit should reach up rather than down. It's a pity that the leading figure of FIDE -- and others like him -- cannot stand that tall. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ IECC MEMBER OF THE MONTH Each issue we introduce to our readers a different member. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ Name: Ray Vermey Age : 31 Married , 4 children Work: Unix Systems Manager Functions in IECC: Executive VP and VP Negotiator I was among the first to join IECC early this year. (In cyberspace there is no measure of time anymore as you travel electronically within seconds from Paris to Tokyo). Like many other members of IECC, I also have some games running at the IECG where I am only one of the crowd -- that it to say, one of the growing numbers IECG boasts in their postings in rec.games.chess.play-by-email, with no credit to Lisa Powell for having invented IECG. IECC has only 510 members at this moment of writing -- still a mere babe in the world of Internet chess. So why belong to IECC as well as IECG? Here at the IECC I like the friendly manner that I perceive from Lisa Powell's responses to me -- and I suspect that the majority of members agree with me. Some might not, but that's life, as the cliche proclaims. I also like the variety of activities available. I'm not a hot-shot chess player like the 2000+ crowd -- my rating at the moment is 1650. I started my `career' as the junior champion of our club when I was 15 years old. Then I won the group I was in at the senior's level of our club, I was going strong. But then I discovered a completely different kind of check: Girls-check. So much for my ambitions for a great career in chess. Years later I went back to my home club, and soon became active as the PR-man of the club, and captain of the first team which played one league below the top in Holland. I did that for two years and decided to switch over to the professionals of Cap Volmac Rotterdam, the reigning champion. Cap has players like Jan Timman, Jeroen Piket, Victor Korchnoi, Jonathan Speelman and others. I became the CEO of the strong Open Championship of Cap Volmac Rotterdam. I have worked at this job for three years -- until our sponsor left us after an association of 20 years!. Now with limited financial assets it's an entire different ballgame, and I'm not sure if I'll stay. That much for chess. I do enjoy other hobbies. Music: listening (NewAge Music, Pink Floyd (great!!) Rolling Stones, Queen (and Freddie Mercury) and also classical Music) and playing the recorder as often as pobbile; E-mail contacts via Internet, and programming in Clipper. For my personal development I'm very interested in mind-mapping and memory techniques. I hope to meet many more of you at the chessboard, and in my function as Executive VP -- and as few as possible of you in my job as VP Negotiator. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ IECC MEMBER OF THE YEAR Sherman Klausner It is with great regret that we announce the resignation of Sherm Klausner. As Executive Vice President and both founder of this IECC Newsletter and its Editor. He was personally familiar to many of us and will be greatly missed. We would like to thank Sherm for all the effort he put into these roles and wish him the best of luck in any future endeavors. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ Information Resources By Mike Power VP Communications You can get the latest IECC activities and news updates from: 1- news group rec.games.chess.play-by-email 2- ftp site at 'ftp.pitt.edu' in the area 'group/chess/NEWS' 3- World Wide Web page at: 'http://kerouac.pharm.uky.edu/rgbIECC/IECC.html' 4- email access to ftp site or WWW site. 5- direct maillings from me [if you're really lazy or can't get any of the above to work (I'll help) ! Specific Instructions for our IECC ftp site via email: -------------------------------------------------------- Here is the quick & dirty intructions for accessing the ftp site we use to publish our articles and news: North American users send Mail to: bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu European users send Mail to : bitftp@vm.gmd.de or try : ftpmail@grasp.insa-lyon.fr Subject: Whatever you want -- ie. get my IECC files Body: help {get the ftp-mail site help instructions} FTP ftp.pitt.edu {connect to the ftp site where the IECC files are} USER anonymous {anonymous ftp will use your email address} cd group/chess/NEWS {go to directory with IECC files} ls iecc* {list names of all files begining with iecc} get ieccwelc.txt {get the text file} binary {switch to binary mode for the next transfer} get ieccbul9.zip {get the compressed binary file} QUIT Notes: There are no leading spaces in front of the commands (just for clarity here) and the punctuation (direction of the slashes !!) and CASE (UPPER or lower) is very important unless you like to get error messages back. Also ignore my comments {inside the brackets!}. You will get 3 messages back from the above request: 1> results of the actual commands above which you should check for errors and will also have a directory listing of group/chess/NEWS in case you want some other files. 2> the first `get' command will send you the text file ieccwelc.txt as a text mail message 3> the second `get' command will send the file ieccbul9.zip as a uuencoded file which hopefully your mailer will handle properly and save it as a binary file on your disc. You can then use PKUNZIP to extract the compressed file. Specific Instructions for our IECC WWW site via email: -------------------------------------------------------- Email access only? Well, members can get documents from the IECC web server even without web access. There are automated mail servers to which you can send an email request for a document and they will log into a web server, get the document and mail it to you. ************************************************************************** send an email to: agora@www.undp.org no subject {this will be filled in by the mail server} {body of message} WWW {to get the help file & info on World Wide Web} send http://kerouac.pharm.uky.edu/rgbIECC/pyramid.txt {latest pyramid} send http://kerouac.pharm.uky.edu/rgbIECC/ratings.txt {latest ratings} send http://kerouac.pharm.uky.edu/rgbIECC/events.txt {latest events} send http://kerouac.pharm.uky.edu/rgbIECC/IECC.html {Home page & it's links} *************************************************************************** The send command will retrieve those files. Once you've got a request working, you can save it and just resubmit it via email whenever you'd like the latest update of whatever. You can also explore different parts of the WWW page and get the latest or old copies of newsletters etc. but try walking before you run :-) All the best and let me know if you have problems. Mike Power IECC VP Communications *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ Notes on IECC Archives By Ken Boys *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ Inspecting, correcting and archiving IECC's completed games has become a full-time job for one person. We need more help for this important function so that we can publish these games in IECC's new WEB site, which Mike Power has explained in his article. Because a certain percentage of game scores arrive with errors in them, they must be checked before they are fed into a database. This will be fully explained when you apply to help. Furthermore, working with IECC archives can be part of the learning process, as I found when checking out this very interesting game. White: rated at 2100 Black: rated at 1186 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e6 7.Be2 Nbd7 8.a4 Be7 9.f4 Qc7 10.g4 0-0 11.g5 Ne8 12.Qd2 Bd8 13.0-0-0 Qb8 14.h4 Bb6 15.h5 Qc7 16.g6 Ndf6 17.gxh7+ Nxh7 18.Bd3 Bxd4 19.Bxd4 e5 20.Nd5 Qb8 21.Ne7+ Kh8 22.Ng6+ Kg8 23.Bb6 Nef6 24.Nxf8 Kxf8 25.f5 Bb7 26.Rdg1 Bxa4 27.h6 gxh6 28.Qxh6+ Ke7 29.Rg7 Nf8 30.Bc4 Be8 31.Be3 Qc7 32.Bb3 Nxe4 33.Qh4+ Nf6 34.Bg5 Nfd7 35.Be6 Kf8 36.Bxf6 Nxf6 37.Qxf6 Qxc2+ 38.Kxc2 Ba4+ 39.b3 Bxb3+ 40.Bxb3 Rc8+ 41.Kd3 Rc3+ 42.Kxc3 Ke8 43.Qxf7+ Kd8 44.Rh8++ 1-0 Should you decide to pitch in, you won't regret it! *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ IECC GAME OF THE MONTH Bill Wall FIDDLING WITH THE PHILIDOR? by Bill Wall (BW) and John Fernandez (JF) John Fernandez - Harley Collison, Postal (IECC), 1995, Philidor (C41) 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 [I dislike the Philidor's Defense, but it is ok in practice, though almost never played at the Grandmaster level anymore, following Philidor's Dictum "Pawns are the soul of chess." - JF] 3. d4 Bg4?! [This has been known to bad to theory since the match Morphy versus Duke of Brunswick and Count Isouard, Paris, 1858! Reasonable alternatives to this are 3. ... exd4 (The exchange variation), 3. ... Nd7 (Hanham Variation), 3. ... Nf6 (Nimzovitch or Jaenisch Variation) and 3. ... f5!? (Philidor Countergambit). - JF] 4. dxe5! [4.Be3 Nd7 5.Be2 Bxf3 6.Bxf3 Ngf6 7.Nc3 c6 8.O-O exd4 9.Qxd4 Be7 10.Rad1 O-O 11.Bf4 c5 Kas-Fleureau, Buenos Aires Olympiad 1978; 4.Be2 Nd7 5.O-O Ngf6 6.Nc3 c6 7.Be3 Be7 8.a4 Qc7 9.Ng5 Bxe2 10.Qxe2 h6 11.Nf3 g5 12 a5 Sills-Anuszczyk, Postal 1970 - BW] 4...Bxf3 [4...Nd7 5.Be2 (5.exd6 Bxd6 6.Be2 Ngf6 7.Bg5 Qe7 8.Nc3 O-O-O 9.O-O Bxf3 10.Bxf3 Qe5 0-1 Szigethy-Deak, Zalakaros 1988) 5...Bxf3 6.Bxf3 dxe5 7.Nc3 c6 8.O-O Ngf6 9.Qe2 Qc7 10.Qc4 Nb6 11.Qb3 Be7 (0-1, 69) Pollock-Blackburne, Hastings 1895 - BW] 5.Qxf3 [5.gxf3 Qh4 (5...dxe5 6.Qxd8+ Kxd8 7.f4 exf4 8.Bxf4 c6 9.Nc3 Ke8 10.O-O-O Nd7 11.Bc4 Nc5 12.Be3 b5 13.Nxb5 1-0 Scheffer-Steegstra, Postal 1899) 6.exd6 Bxd6 7.Bb5+ Nc6 8.Bxc6+ bxc6 9.Be3 Rd8 10.Nd2 Ne7 11.c3 Bf4 Bell-Schiller, Internet 1990 - BW] 5...dxe5 6.Bc4! f6? [Deviating from the Morphy game. 6. ... Nf6? Was played and resulted in a spectacular loss after 7. Qb3! Qe7 (7...b6?? 8.Bxf7+ Kd7 9.Qe6 mate Koltanowski-Vogel, San Mateo 1966 - BW) 8. Nc3 c6?! 9. Bg5 b5? 10. Nxb5! cxb5 11. Bxb5+ Nd7 12. 0-0-0! Rd8 13. Rxd7! Rxd7 14. Rd1 Qe6 15. Bxd7+ Nxd7 16. Qb8+!! Nxb8 17. Rd8 mate 1-0 - JF; Other moves recently played have been the following: 6...Qd7 7.O-O c6 8.Rd1 Qc7 9.a4 Nf6, Apicella-Assaf, Moscow Olympiad 1994; 6...Qf6 7.Qb3 Bc5 8.Qxb7 (8.O-O b6 9.Be3 Nd7 10.Nc3 c6 11.Rad1 Ne7 12.Rxd7 Kxd7 13.Bxc5 Ng6 Sulliman-Bernschutz, Dubai Olympiad 1986) 8...Qxf2+ 9.Kd1 Qd4+ 10.Nd2 Nf6, Walaa-Nakapunda, Moscow Olympiad 1994; 6...Nf6 7.O-O Bd6 8.Nc3 Nc6 9.Be3 Qd7, Silverinha-Sicobo, Moscow Olympiad 1994 - BW] 7. Qb3 Nh6 [7. ... Nh6 was the only move, and now black has to shed a piece to avoid the mate threats on f7. - JF; 7...Qd4 8.Bf7+ Ke7 9.Qe6+ Kd8 10.Qe8 mate 1-0 Rotman-Bornarel,Bern 1992. I think Black can try 7...Qe7 8. Bxg8 (8.Qxb7 Qb4+ 9.Qxb4 Bxb4+ 10.c3 Bc5) 8...Nc6 9.Qxb7 Qb4+ 10.Qxb4 Bxb4+ 11.c3 Rxg8 12.cxb4 Nxb4 and try to survive that line rather than 7...Nh6. - BW] 8. Bxh6! [I dare to say white is winning here. - JF] 8. ... Bb4+ [It just gets worse. Perhaps 8...Qc8 9.Bf7+ Kd8, but Black is still a piece down. - BW] 9. Qxb4 gxh6 10. Qxb7 Nd7 [Only move, otherwise White wins at least a piece. - JF] 11. Qd5 [Threatening mate with 12.Qf7 mate - BW] 11...Rf8 12. Bb5 Rf7 [Perhaps 12...Kf7 to break the pin on the knight - BW] 13. Bxd7 Rxd7 14. Qg8+ Ke7 15. Qxh7+ Ke6 16. Qf5+ Ke7 [A little better is 17...Kf7 - BW] 17.0-0 [No need to castle. White should simply play 17.Nc3 and 18.Nd5+ - BW] 17...Rd1 [It's not good to trade off pieces when you are down in material. You need all the pieces left for any counter-play. Trade off pawns if possible when down in material. Best here is 17...Rb8 on the half-open file. After 18.b3 Qg8 would be the best bet for counter-play. - BW] 18. Nc3 [Not 18.Rxd1?? Qxd1 mate] 18...Rd2 [Not much left for Black. Perhaps 18...Rd6 instead. - BW] 19. Nd5+ Kf8 20. Qxf6+ [Or 20.Nxf6 and 21.Qf6 - BW] 20...Qxf6 21. Nxf6 Rd6 [Better may be 21...Rb8 or 21...Kg7 22.Ng4 Re8] 22. Nd5 [22.Ng4 seems stronger. After 22...Re8 23.Rad1 should win easily. - BW] 22...c6 [I still like 22...Rb8 to get the other rook out. - BW] 23. Rfd1?! [Also possible is 23.f4! threatening 24.fxe5+ and 25.exd6] 23...Kf7? [I'm wondering why not simply cxd5!, taking the knight. I was going to offer the knight in order to trade down to a winning endgame, but the text makes sure that the game follows the logical conclusion. - JF; Black's best is 23...cxd5 24.Rxd5 Rb6 25.b3 Re8, but White just has too many pawns left - BW] 24. f4 [Or 24.Ne3 Rad8 25.Rxd6 Rxd6 26.Nc4 - BW] 24...Rg8 [Black should play 24...cxd5 25.fxe5 Rc6 26.exd5 Rxc2 and try to stop the two passed center pawns. - BW] 25. fxe5 Rdg6?? [Maybe 25...Rdd8, but after 26.Nb4 Rxd1+ 27.Rxd1 c5 28.Nc6, White has an overwhelming advantage. - BW] 26. Nf4 [Stronger is 26.Rf1+. If 26...Kg7 27.Ne7 forks the rooks. If 26...Ke8 27.Nf6+ forks king and rook. If 26...Ke6 27.Nf4+ forks king and rook. - BW] 26...Rg5 [26...Rg4 is better. If 27.Rf1 Ke7. If 27.e6 Kf6. - BW] 27. e6+ [Or 27.Rd7+ Kf8 28.Rf1 or 27...Ke8 28.Rxa7 - BW] 27...Kf6 [Stay on the queening square. Best is 27...Ke8 - BW] 28. Rd7 Rf8 [Last gasp is 28...a5 29.e7 Kf7 and 30...Re8. - BW] 29. e7 [After 29...Re8, White can play 30.Rad1, threatening 31.R1d6 - BW] 1-0 *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ Chess Trivia and Humorous Happenings Editor: Bill Wall THE CHESSPLAYER'S WIDOW by Bill Wall My wife Lois hates chess. She sees chess not as a pasttime but a wastetime. The chess player's widow sees her husband as a vague person who is more interested in a checkmate than his own mate. He studies his board; she is bored of his studying. He is thinking of a knight move; she is thinking of a night life. He is looking for mate in one; she is looking for one to mate. My wife sometimes cooks an elaborate meal if I invite friends over for supper. Chess players have only other chess players as friends, of course. The biggest mistake she can make is to use a checkered tablecloth. When everyone sits down to enjoy a sumptuous meal that my wife took hours to prepare over a hot stove, she will find all her salt and pepper shakers, toothpick holders, sugar bowl (and cubes), cups and glasses, and miscellaneous foods from various plates make an excellent substitiute for chess pieces on a chess board patterned from the tablecloth. Chessplayers are supposed to have a good memory. The latest theory of the Sveshnikov Variation of the Sicilian Defense in the Cheliabinsk line after 9.Nd5 has been memorized to the smallest detail, including the 50-move game that Kasparov kicked Matthias Wahl's butt (not to be confused with Bill Wall) in Hamburg in 1987. Yet, when my wife has given me a list of two things to do, written on paper, handed to me, repeated as I go out the door, I can't remember what I was supposed to buy or pick up at the cleaners. The chess player has forgotten all this and passes it off as "poor memory." However, he can still remember that brilliant chess game he won five years ago in the third round of the club championship when he sacrificed his rook for two minor pieces and won the endgame. My wife knows when I play poorly at a chess tournament. I come home a loser, no 6-inch trophy to add to my collection of trophies stuck in a box in the closet. I don't get to share my winnings of $14.28 that six other players received for tying for the $100 third place money that we all paid $25 to enter. I have to tell her I was beaten by a 10 year old in the final round for first place. Never mind it's Jordy Mont-Reynaud rated at 2200. She has to tell all her friends I got beaten by a 10 year old at chess. I go over the game with my magnetic set in the bathroom. Two hours later my wife is pounding at the locked bathroom door wondering if I killed myself over the stupid game and was slumped over dead. I'm not dead, so you don't get the insurance money yet, nor sell all my chess books for a penny a book at the flea market. I leave the bathroom for her to use and set up my magnetic set. STOP! Don't flush. One of my magnetic pawns is missing. Don't move. Too late. I dropped a pawn in the toilet. There goes another chess set. My wife probably suffers more if I win. I bring home a trophy to be properly displayed in the living room or on the window sill where the most people can see if they walk by the house. There's not much left of the prize money as I take all my friends (chess players, of course) to a pizza house where we can get a booth, eat pizza, and go over the games. So I come home a little bit later on those days. My wife must listen with interest as I give her a move-by-move description in detail, with added explanations of how brilliant each of my moves was, including all possible variations. She must follow from room to room so as not to escape a single move of a particular game, or else suffer the consequences of me setting up the pieces all over again and starting over from move one. I can't teach her to play chess. She forgets how the horsey moves; she wants to castle in check; she thinks I made up the en passant rule; she trades her castle off for the bishop because she doesn't like the bishop and it's much stronger than a rook anyway; and she takes all the moves she wants back at any time. My wife is jealous of other women who play chess. She thinks all these chess tournaments I go to out of town are full of women who play chess and want to seduce me. Except for the National Open in Las Vegas, there are no women chess groupies (don't tell my wife about the Las Vegas groupies; that's a secret kept by all other male chess players who play there). In over 25 years of playing chess, with over 1,000 opponents, I can count the number of women I played in tournament chess on one hand. There've been Alexey Root (2210) (I lost), Liz Neely (2150) (two lucky draws), Michelle Adams (1900) (lucky win - I was down in material), Vera Frenkel (2100) (I lost), and Betty South (1600) (I won - her flag fell in a winning position). Now I have seen women play in tournament play without bras (must be to distract the opponent when castling), wear lots of perfume, cry if they lose, or have big body-building boyfriends next to them. But that shouldn't be a reason for my wife to be jealous and follow me around from one tournament to the next to see who entered. If it's all male, she leaves. If one female plays, she stays and sits nearby and lets everyone know I'm married. My wife doesn't help if I tutor and coach kids who come over to learn chess. Instead of being quiet, she offers them candy, sandwiches, milk, cake, etc. She turns on the TV and if there is some interesting show on, she invites everyone to watch. She tells them about all the neat computer games I have that I never play and for the kids to try out them or the Sega games. If I am at a chess tournament or with a chess player and trying to sell chess books, I never let my wife help any more. One time I had her help and had to leave the area where I was selling chess books to get some lunch or something. When I came back I saw half my books gone. I thought she did a great job in selling them until I found out she either gave some of them away for free because a chess player didn't have any money (that's common) and she felt sorry, or she sold them for half-price or less because she thought the books were too expensive anyway. After all, her Harlequin Romance books she buys are only a buck, why aren't these paperback chess books the same price. I write chess books and my wife wants to know where the big bucks are for the big shot author. I tell her I write for the fun of it and there is no money in writing chess books. My "Miniature" series do okay, but I trade my royalties in for more chess books. My wife is still waiting for the movie rights - a mini series. Because my wife doesn't want me to leave her alone and go to weekend chess tournaments, I now play more chess at home over the Internet. I am home more often and have lots of computer games and Internet connectivity. Now she complains I am on the computer too much. Besides, she wants to use the computer to write to her friends or play Carmen Sandiago or Family Feud or Jeopardy or Tetris or Yahtzee. Anything but chess. Maybe I should take up golf. That's not expensive or addictive is it? There is no such thing as a golf player's widow is there? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TEAM MATES by Bill Wall Team tournaments with wild team names are becoming more popular. A variety of team names has been used and there is usually a prize for the best team name. Here is a list of some of my favorite team names from actual chess team tournaments. 4 Quartz 4 Sale 4.5 Mil Or the Preacher Gets It 9 Inch Pawns on Tour Aging Chess Nuts (Senior Team) All Chessed Up With No Mates to Go Altered Mates Attackamania Bad Bishops Bedtime for Pawnzo Bent on Larseny Be Reti With a Crying Tal Better Bishop Bureau Billy Jean's Queens Bishop Tolstoy and his Warrin' Pieces Board Lords Bobby Boomers Bouncing Checks Bust Line Developers C4 Good Rooking Guys Campo's Hit Squad Capture in the Ruy Cheap Thought Check Bouncers Check This Chess b4Ne1 Chess is Like a Box of Chocolates Chess Nuts Roasting on an Open File Chessperadoes Closet Queens Compromising Positions Dark Horses Dawn of the Living Pawn Deep Thoughtless Defrocked Bishops Discovered Czechs Don't Fork the Horse E4 Effort Edwin Moses & the Broad Jumpers Elo Mates, Arpad or Yours Fast Draws Fischermen Five Easy Pieces Flying Knights (Air Force team) Four Fits Four Horsemen Four Knights Looking for a Mate Four on the Flohr Four Playing Knights Friday Knights Future Schach Gata Winski Geller's Kids Give 'em the Bird Go Ahead, Mate My Day Got to Rook the Knight Away Great Sacs All Knight Long Harharhartarson Horse Maneuver Horsepower Hyperkanndriacs I Am Not a Rook I Saw Ehlvest I.M. Possibles Invasion of the Pawn Snatchers J'Adoubie Brothers John Paul's Hard On Bishops Johnnie Cochrane's Contemptable Defense Joy of Sacs Kann't b2 Reti for Mating Khomeini's School of Diplomacy Kibitz and Blitz Knight Crawlers Knight-Knight Knight Mare on G-Street - Freddie Spikes Back Knight Mares to Pawnder Knights of the Crosstable Knights of the Square Table Knightstalkers Kortchnoi's Complaint Kotov's Napkins Ladies of the Knight (all female team) Lein Brains Let's Get Tactical Levin Fish Little Karpov Horrors Loch Chess Monsters Lord of the Kings Master Beaters Master Maters Mate is Enough Material Girls (all girl team) Maters of the Lost Art Mating Material (all female team) Mating's the Best Way to Score Men Over Board Mieses Pieces Mighty Morphy Pawn Arrangers Neon Knights Nerds of Steel Never Stale Maters No Bad Checks No Bawls (all female team) No Pawn Intended OJ's Favorite Play: Cut Left, Slash Right OJ's Queen Sacrifice Old Indians On Golden Pawn One For All and All Four Won Ouch That Hort Overdrawn Checks Overworked and Underpromoted Pawnographers Pawn Chop Pawn Shop Phi Beta Capa's Phorque U Pillsbury Mates It Best Planned Net of the Prime Mates Poison Ivory Premature Attack Elation Queen Louganis and the Rear Entry Divers Queens for a Day (all female team) R to D2 Raiders of the Lost Fork Reagan's El Salvadorian "Piece" Team Reagan's Peacekeeping Force Reti for Mating Ripe Ter-Maters Roasting Chess Nuts Romanishin the Stone Rook and Roll Rook b4 You Leap Rook, Line and Sinker Rook of Gilbraltor Sac a Big One Schach Therapy Shake & Mate Shakmatny Byullet Dodgers Shaq-Mate Magic Sleepless Knights Smart Alekhines Sons of Bishops Spassky's Drawers Starcheck: the Wrath of Kann Stormy Knights Sugar Sacs Take This Pawn and Kramnik Take This Pawn and Shove It Tal in the Saddle Tarrasch Collectors Tarrasch Compactors Tartar-Kower Control League Fights Dzindzi-Vitis Ted Bundy's Fried Liver Teddy Kennedy's Driving School The "A" Team The Four Players The Gang of Four (Chinese Team) The Happy Rookers The Itches: Nimzo-ITCH, Port-ITCH, Saem-ITCH, and Jacques-ITCH The Ko's: Ben, Gul, Soson, and T The Polgar Brothers The Wrath of Pawns Three Men and a Baby Throw in the Tal Touch Move with Dr. Joycelyn Elders Toxic Schach Syndrome Two I.M.s and Two I Aint's Two Knights, Let It Be Lowenthal Urine Czech Walking Tal We Don't Ivanchuk a Pawn We're Going to Tarrasch You Woman on Top (Board) You Rook Mahvelous ------------------------------------------------------------ Chess - What's available on the Internet by Bill Wall (August 26, 1995) Here is a list of some of the sites where chess is a topic on the Internet. 3-D Chess http://dallas.ucd.ie/~phicks/3Dc.html ACF (Alabama Chess Federation) http://www/cis.uab.edu/info/faculty/sloan/ACF/ ACM http://www.think.com/RTFM/Welcome.html Al's Chess Home Page http://www.webcom.com/~smartbiz/scc/al_home.html Alberta http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~mah/ACA/ (Alberta Chess Association) analysis news:rec.games.chess.analysis Archives http://www.traveller.com/chess/ Arlington CC http://www.cais.com/sunburst/chess/arlcc.html art gallery http://caissa.onenet.net/chess/HTML/art-gallery.html Audy, Jan http://eerie.fr/~janaudy/Echech.html Australia http://www.ozemail.com.au/~chesswd/ (Chess World Australia) Bach, Carl http://www.moscow.com/homepages/carl@erinet.com.html BCCF http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/spider/f0d192/bccf.html (British Columbia) beer chess http:/and.com/realbeer/games/beer.chess.html (play chess with beer) Bell, David http://tao.btc.uwe.ac.uk/~sparky Bensheim CC http://spy.fkp.physik.th-darmstadt.de/TheoPhys/bsc/sg31.html BICS telnet://holly.csv.warwick.ac.uk4 Blitz'n'Pieces http://www.chemeng.ed.ac.uk/people/steve/bnp7.ps Breuker, Dennis http://www.cs.rulimburg.nl/~breuker bughouse http://ux5.cso.uiuc.edu/~koo/bughouse.html Buice, Robert http://kerouac.pharm.uky.edu/rgbchess.html CalChess http://www.hooked.net/hypermodern/calchess.html (N. California chess) calendar http://www.brad.ac.uk/~mdcrowth/cal (calendar of world class events) Caskey, Paul http://www.swcp.com/~pcaskey/chess.html CFC http://www.globalx.net/cfc/index.html (Canadian Chess Federation) Charlottesville http://uvacs.cs.virginia.edu/~rfh2y/chess.html Chess Circuit http://www.gre.ac.uk/~bd374/ChessCircuit/ChessCircuit.html Chess Connection http://www.easynet.co.uk/pages/worldchess/home.html Chess Nuts http://www.gre.ac.uk/~bd374/ chess server, Denmark telnet://anemone.daimi.aau.dk:5000 chess server, USA telnet://ics.onenet.net:5000 chess server http://www.willamette.edu/~tjones/chessmain.html chess sets http:/www.inmet.com/~dscott/mlaw/395chess.html (Motherland Artworks Chess Show http://www.teleport.com/~clinto/chess/chessshow Chess Space http://www.redweb.com/chess Chesslinks http://www.cais.com/sunburst/chess/ Chessworks Unlimited http://www.hooked.net/users/chesswks/cwu.html Chinese chess telnet://coolidge.harvard.edu:5555 Chinese chess http://www.io.org/~sung/xq/xq.html Cleveland Public Library chess collection telnet://library.cpl.org computer chess news:rec.games.chess.computer computer chess reports http://bacchus.kih.no:8001/stud/mads2/chess.html computer opponent http://pine.cs.yale.edu:4201/cgi-bin/chessplayer Connolly, Hal (see Oberlin) Cook, Eugene Cool http://www.li.net/~cool/chess.html Crowther http://www.brad.ac.uk/~mdcrowth/chess.html CyberChess http://www.interaccess.com/ngdads/cyberchess/cyberch.html Cyril, Tonin http://jessica.essi.fr/~tonin/chess.html (Les Echecs) Dallas CC http://www.iadfw.net/jkerr/chess/index.html Dan's Chess Camp http://www.brownell.edu/chess.html Dartmouth http://mmm.dartmouth.edu/pages/org/chess/homepage.html De Bruyne, Marc http://eduserv.rug.ac.be/~mjdbruyn Deja Vu http://www.hooked.net/users/chesswks/DejaVu/DejaVuFAQ.html Denmark ICS telnet://krypton.daimi.aau.dk/ Echecs http://www.vir.com/~cguy/chess/chess.htm Efroymson, Robert http://www.cs.unm.edu/~refromsn/chess.html email news:rec.games.chess.play-by-email Estonia http://www.infornet.ee/chess/ FAQ (frequently asked questions) http://chess/div/faq.html Febi http://nobi.ethz.ch/febi/chess/chess.html FICS, American telnet://ics.onenet.net:5000 FICS, British telnet://holly.csv.warwick.ac.uk4 FIDE http://www.msvu.ca/chess/findeinfo.html Finland http://www.to.icl.fi/chess/index.html Forslund, G http://www.ida.liu.se/~gorfo/chess/problem (Problem of the Month) Friedrich, N. http://www.inf-wiss.uni-konstanz.de/~friedri/chess/chess.htm Frost, Dan http://www.brownell.edu/chess.html FUNET http://www.funet.fi/pub/doc/games/chess Fyodor (Fyodor Mazur) http:/www.interlog.com/~fyodor/chess.html Game Room http://www.kdcol.com/~val/games/index.html German ICS telnet://unix-ag.uni-kl.de 5000 GICS telnet://chess.unix-ag.uni-kl.de:5000 Gills, Andy http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~andy/chess.html Ginsburg, Mark http://edgar.stern.nyu.edu/people/mark.html Global Interaction tourney http://www.msvu.ca/chess/chess.html GNN http://nearnet.gnn.com/wic/recgam gnu chess news:gnu.chess GNUchess http://alfred.niehs.nih.gov/Demo/WWWChess/ GNU WebChess http://www.delorie.com/game-room/chess/ Greece http:/www.compulink.forthnet.gr/chess/ (Compulink's Hellas CC) Hampton Roads http://www.infi.net/~cwt/chess.html (Hampton Roads, VA) Hawaii http://www.aloha.com/~dan/chess.html HGJ (Herbert Groot Jebbink) http://www.xs4all.nl/~hgj/chess.html (gone?) history http://www.traveller.com/chess/history (chess chronology by Wall) Holger http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~schulz/wwwchess.html Hull CC http://www.synapse.net/~lecorre/welcomen.htm Hunstville CC Hypermodern Press http://www.hooked.net/hypermodern/hyper.html ICC http://www.hydra.com/icc/ ICCA http://www.cs.rulimburg.nl/icca/ ICCA Computer Chess Ch http:/www/ie.cuhk.hk/~chess95/ Iceland http://www.arctic.is/chess/ ICL (International Computers Limited) http://www.to.icl.fi/chess ICL (Internet Chess Library) http://caissa.onenet.net.chess ICS, American telnet://chess.lm.com:5000 (Internet Chess Server) ICS, European telnet://anemone.daimi.aau.dk:5000 ICS, UK telnet://holly.csv.warwick.ac.uk:5000 IECC http://kerouac.pharm.uky.edu/rgbIECC/IECC.html IECG http://www.ub.uit.no/chess/iecg/iecginfo.html IECG ftp://ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca/iecg InformSystems ftp://ldis.cs.msu.su/projects/ftp/ca-data/outgoing Inside Chess Magazine http://www.grandmaster.bc.ca/chess/chess.html Intel http://www.intel.com/about-intel/papers/chess.html Irish Chess Page http://www.misty.com/ulysses/vip/chess/chess.htm/ Italy http://www.it.net/Scacchi (L'Italia Scacchistica) Jakob, Steffen http://este.darmstadt.gmd.de:5000/persons/steffen/chess.html Larwick, Brett http://www.public.iastate.edu/~blarwick/games/chess.html Levine, Dave http://www.mcs.anl.gov/home/levine/CHESS/chess.html Lewis CC http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/~taileas MacDonald, Al http://www.webcom/~smartbiz/scc/al_home.html Maclin http://utmgopher.utmem.edu/maclin/chess.htm Maclin http://pmaclin.utmem.edu Mah, Dean http://web.cs.ualberta.ca/~mah/chess.html Makel, Ari http://www.helsinki.fi/~arimakel/chess.html Malaysia http://www.mol-usa.com/news/chess/home.htm Martin http://www.daimi.aau.dk/~u930640/sport/chess.html" Maryland Mayer, Steve ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/sm/smayer/ Makela, Ari http://www.helsinki.fi/~arimakel/chess.html Miller, Patrick http://www.acm.usl.edu/~pnm3608/chess.html miscellaneous news:rec.games.chess.misc Mortazavi, Ali (see Chess Connection) netsrq http://www.netsrq.com/~chess New Jersey http://www.gti.net/chess/index.html NIC http://www.xs4all.nl/~nic/ Nilsson, M