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Fischer and Nimzowitz for me. Qh4 Regards

Sounds like the drive is going south. Or you have a bad batch of blank disks. Change your cable to 80 wire. And try cleaning the drive. Regards

Waitzkin and Pandolfini are excellent players - not as good as Fischer, of course, but he was one out of the box. Regards

It means, return to the main forum page and read the FAQ topics (3rd from the top). Regards

@cathater The board is divided into 8 rows (1-8) and 8 columns (a-h). White is always at the bottom (a1 is on white's left and h8 on black's). So, Qd3 means move the queen to the 4th column from (white's) left to (white's) row 3. If black moves Qa6, it means move his queen to the rightmost column (ie white's 1st column=black's 8th column) and (white's) 6th row (=black's 3rd row) NxP indeed means knight takes pawn. Sometimes you need to be more precise, so you mention which knight or which pawn. The notation is: R = Rook K = King B = Bishop N= Knight Q = Queen If no piece is mentioned, it means the pawn. See if you can replicate the following on a board from the start of a game. 1. e4 e5 (In a move of 2 plies (or a move by each opponent), white is mentioned first - sometimes you see 7. ... g5, this means white has made his move and black has moved his pawn to g5). 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 (this means black's e pawn takes white's d pawn - this is an interesting opening full of traps) If all this is beyond you, buy or borrow a chess for beginners book. Regards

Just set it for 2.4x. I have lots of DL burns at 2.4x with this media and not one is bad. Yes, it takes about 40 minutes and another 10-15 to verify, but that's no biggie. Regards

Change to Verbatim or Taiyo Yudens and throw out this cheap rubbish. Update your firmware - see here. Regards

Fair enough. You do seem to like all your pices sitting on their original positions. Bd6 Regards

PxN was better (gets a pawn in the cente and doesn't expose the Q). Bb7 and good night. Regards

Right. Frank Marshall, US Champion. NxN Regards

So you refuse my gambit? Don't like the Marshall? Shame - it's a fun game and if you play well, you can keep the pawn. exd4 Regards

Nxd5 (I can play this opening in my sleep) Regards

And a whole lot smaller filesize. The media is not rated at 5x. Do as LUK! says, write it at 2.4x Regards

d5 Get yer nose into the books - we're in for a ride! Regards

0-0 Regards

b5 (I love the Ruy Lopez and you'll love the variation I'm gunna play). Regards

Be7 Regards

4. a6 (then Nf6) It's dinner time here anyway Regards

2. ...Nc6 yawn In order to show the moves, we'd need to play on the chess servers - but I doubt the games could be held open for days on end. You do need special software to show the pieces. Regards

And so concludes "The Americans who risked everything". In fact it was a pom, Altercuno, who risked everything by playing a bad move in a very unforgiving game against a true bastard. Regards

Hmmmm. Tough move. Maybe c5? Perhaps c6? Or even d5 or e6? Nah - we start off easy. 1. ...e5 Regards

Just saw it on TV myself. Add my well wishes, too. Send some it down here Altercuno - we're still in major water restrictions despite good rainfalls this winter. Regards

You can't believe companies make cheap garbage media and flood them out to unsuspecting people who are price conscious and due to human nature, try to save a few pennies here and there? C'mon! Really! Regards

God knows MJ. Maybe when the next overtly nationalist/stupid political thread starts. Personally, I much prefer this thread to chess or stupid politics. Regards

Looks a lot better - relax now and happy burning. Regards