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A search on Bookfinder...<br><br><a...
bemweeks
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Feb 2, 2001
6:23 am
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My latest site review looks at the UPITT events collection and CRM. The address of the review ['Chess History on the Web (2001 no.3)'] is...<br><br><a...
bemweeks
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Feb 2, 2001
6:36 am
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I have a question about the Yahoo service. Yahoo shows 20 members of this club, but only 9 people have ever posted a message. As far as I know any nonmember ...
bemweeks
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Feb 2, 2001
6:44 am
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Here's a chess question. I've been researching the FIDE world youth championships -- the under-10, under-12, ..., under-18 boys & girls events. One thing I ...
bemweeks
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Feb 2, 2001
6:55 am
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I am researching a book on the National Chess League, an attempt to boost chess as a team sport in the USA. Games were played by telephone between cities, and...
neilbrennen
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Feb 2, 2001
4:00 pm
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I have the Myers bulletin for the year (94) his team won. Any good?<br><br>Happy to discuss things from an English perspective, if you'd like!...
bojankurajica
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Feb 2, 2001
8:47 pm
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Things are far worse in other clubs where apaphy is the order of the day.<br><br>Chess is a quiet game afterall.......
bojankurajica
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Feb 2, 2001
8:49 pm
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The World Junior is 50 years old this year, I believe. Ivkov won ahead of England's Malcolm Barker. This is not what you want is it?<br><br>You are interested...
bojankurajica
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Feb 2, 2001
8:54 pm
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Thank you for the offer bojankurajica, but the National Chess League died in 1982. The Myers team win is from another unrelated event.<br><br>I had hoped the ...
neilbrennen
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Feb 3, 2001
2:51 am
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Neil - I was captain of the Hartford CT team, the 'Hartford Nofaults'. A few weeks after the season ended I moved from Hartford to Copenhagen and left all of...
bemweeks
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Feb 5, 2001
5:57 am
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For the record, I added...<br><br>Chess Records Management by John Pope<br><a href=http://users.imag.net/~lon.jpope/...
bemweeks
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Feb 5, 2001
6:16 am
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&gt;You are interested in the younger kids, I think... <br><br>Yes, the World Junior is U20. I'm looking for info on U10-U18. These events seem to have started...
bemweeks
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Feb 5, 2001
6:43 am
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With regard to some of the things you are mentioned in the Britbase piece: According to Kasparov's Fighting Chess, the 1987 Kasparov-Short match was played on...
gmgiffen
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Feb 6, 2001
2:53 am
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Thank you Mark, I would like to get those games. I came across your name from a Cleveland-Hartford match. You had Black against Wozney, I recall. <br><br>I ...
neilbrennen
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Feb 6, 2001
3:24 am
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Neil - Let's discuss it in public. It might whip up some interest in the subject and help sell a few more of your books!<br><br>Again, except for the game ...
bemweeks
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Feb 6, 2001
9:06 am
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Glenn - Thanks for your message. It's rare that I get any feedback here & I appreciate it.<br><br>1987 Kasparov-Short; by coincidence an email correspondent...
bemweeks
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Feb 6, 2001
9:10 am
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Well Mark, I'm still in the early stages of research on this topic, but it seems there were many reasons for the collapse of the National Chess League: the...
neilbrennen
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Feb 6, 2001
12:51 pm
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Neil - I scanned the game scores and uploaded them to...<br><br><a href=http://Mark_Weeks.tripod.com/nbrennen/...
bemweeks
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Feb 7, 2001
1:20 am
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&gt;it seems there were many reasons for the collapse of the National Chess League<br><br>Your conclusions on the demise of the NCL make a lot of sense. Was ...
bemweeks
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Feb 8, 2001
12:30 pm
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If it's not cultural and its not entirely geographical, then I have to suspect political reasons. This is no big surprise. Over the past 50 years, chess ...
neilbrennen
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Feb 8, 2001
3:06 pm
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&gt;Tobin was a very good player, from the games I saw.<br><br>I think he's the son of James Tobin of Yale University, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in...
bemweeks
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Feb 9, 2001
6:04 am
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Glad to be of service. I've been a long time fan of your World Championship site.<br> Re. Fighting chess: A revised edition was put out by Henry Holt and ...
gmgiffen
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Feb 12, 2001
12:18 pm
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What is U Pitt?...
bojankurajica
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Feb 12, 2001
9:30 pm
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Sorry. UPitt is short for the University of Pittsburgh. They have a web site at &lt;<a href=http://www.pitt.edu/~schach/Archives/index2.html&gt;...
gmgiffen
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Feb 13, 2001
7:46 am
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No. I am not a Yugoslav GM. I once drew with him in a simul as a kid...
bojankurajica
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Feb 13, 2001
7:25 pm
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"One other piece of trivia -- Dr. Platz published his game against Ed Williams (New Orleans) in his 1979 book 'Chess Memoirs'." - Mark <br><br>Mark, that's not...
neilbrennen
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Feb 14, 2001
12:13 am
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Sorry. My mistake. I once almost beat Canadian IM Lawrence Day in a simul as a kid. Maybe I should change my login name.<br> You seem to drop by here pretty ...
gmgiffen
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Feb 14, 2001
8:36 am
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Yes....
bojankurajica
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Feb 14, 2001
10:52 am
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I am no player anymore, but an expert on the game at large, all modesty apart. I was Britain's youngest chess jounalist 20 years ago<br><br>I am writing about...
bojankurajica
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Feb 14, 2001
9:33 pm
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That is a sign of a serious historian: having a multiplicity of projects in the works. I look forward to seeing the book on the Danish and the Penrose book ...
neilbrennen
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Feb 15, 2001
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