Week in review and other stuff
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GELFAND TO PLAY ANAND FOR WORLD TITLE IN 2012
By now everybody knows that Israel’s Boris Gelfand (age 43) defeated Russia’s Alexander
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Potpourri
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DARWIN AND BEER
“Well you see, Norm, it’s like this …a herd of buffalo can only move as fast as
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KARMA
There was a curious reaction within certain quarters of our chess community when I first announced on this blog a project
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Editorial Opinion
Mark Dutton, a well known, failed-chess organizer from Toronto ,has recently (today!) been appointed as chief arbiter of the 2011
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This evening I received an email from Karen Richards (wife of the missing/disappeared Peter Stockhausen) informing me that she is still
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I bet you never heard of the ICSC!
INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEEOF SILENT CHESS
The International Committee of Silent Chess (I.C.S.C.) was
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CFC PRESIDENTS IN A NUTSHELL
(AS DOGS!)
ERIC VAN DUSEN
(We did not realize that by ‘communication’ Eric really meant ‘telepathy
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Fide and countries (part 2)
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FIDE has 161 country members, making it one of the largest sports organizations in the world today. Here are some statistics
… Read the rest Campomanes (Feb 22,1927 – May 3, 2010) R.I.P.
The man called ‘Campo’.
RIP 1932 – 2010
Perhaps the most enigmatic personality of modern chess, Philippine born Florencio Campomanes died peacefully earlier today in
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“Focus on golf. F??k everything else.”
Thanks WS!
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THE TIGER’S TAIL…
Apparently, Earl Woods Gave
Tiger the Following Advice
Chess in the news
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In keeping with the policy of this blog to present the naked chess community as it really is, without cosmetic makeup or
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Today’s good advice
”Remember when you are in deep shit, look straight ahead, keep your mouth shut and say nothing.”
(Ontario
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IN KEEPING WITH THE POLICY OF THIS BLOG TO SHOW THE REAL—AND OFTEN UGLY—FACE OF OUR COLLECTIVE CHESS COMMUNITY
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In keeping with the policy of this blog to show the real side of our North American chess community, uncensored and completely
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Worried that the CFC might go bankrupt paying FIDE fees before the merry band of CFC elected-leaders manage to ‘TRILLIUMIZE’ the CHESS
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