I hope to finish preliminary work on the collection tonight. Anything S&V can add would be welcome.

bro <Benzol>, games # 20 and 5.

By the way, it's a pity that the editors placed the solutions together with the diagrams in the last (and, by the way, why should the Problem's part be always the last...). This mistake is being repeated since White gave Loyd's bio almost a hundred years ago - the owner of the book will not, so to say - live the mistery of each diagram...

:)

heh- I notice that <Deffi> and <acirce> handed out some of the punishment in your new and controversial games collection...

I think you played well - it was probably about = (Fritz recommends 27...a4 also BTW) but you had a small advantage throughout although White would have been able to hold.

<http://www.montebellunascacchi.com/...;

thanks for the posting.

try to ask NM glen Bordonada, he might know those guys personally....

i'll try to repost your question when the heat subsides in Wesley page hehe..

<Open Defence> The Aussies played brilliantly against the Springboks two weeks ago while last week the All Blacks for the most part didn't fire against those same Sprinboks. Yet they played well against the Wallabies. Might be like the chess equivalent of "The Difficult Opponent". I can't figure it either. Anyway although the fate of the Tri-nations trophy and the Bledisloe Cup have been decided the All Blacks and the Wallabies have one more test to play together in Japan soon.

The joys of idleness!

Sadly, with each update I find more to add to the list of significant historical tournaments that need collecting. My new list, for which I've created a small database, is 200 tournaments large. I will list the highlights of what I'd like to collect at some point for your own profile list: London 1862, Paris 1867, New York 1880, Breslau 1889, Dresden 1892, Kiel 1893, Leipzig 1894, Cologne 1898, Munich 1900, Coburg 1904, Barmen 1905, Scheveningen 1905, Nürnberg 1906, Ostend 1907 B, Düsseldorf 1908, Breslau 1912, Havana 1913, New York 1915, Goteborg 1920, New York 1931, Bad Silac 1932, Leningrad 1934, Amsterdam 1936, Podebrady 1936, Ostend 1937, Moscow 1947, Parnu 1947, Budapest 1952, Bucharest 1953, Riga 1959, Moscow 1959, Buenos Aires 1960, Bled 1961, Havana 1962-1971, Zagreb 1965, Yerevan 1965, Moscow 1966, Palma de Mallorca 1966-1972, Monte Carlo 1967-1969, Vinkovci 1968, Ljubljana 1969, Rovinj/Zagreb 1970, Buenos Aires 1970, Teesside 1975, Moscow 1975, and Leningrad 1977. That's just 61 of them. And then there are the tournament series I'm in the process of completing: 23 Amsterdam tournaments between 1961-1996; 12 Biel tournaments between 1984-2000; 18 Dortmund tournaments between 1973-1991; 8 Las Palmas tournaments between 1972-1993; and 14 US Championships between 1936-1980. That's 75 more. Not counting miscellaneous tournaments that's 136 tournaments left to collect. Shouldn't take <too> long considering I've finished over 300 at this point ;)

Game Collection: Coburg 1904

http://books.google.com/books?id=3C...

I've been living in Google Books' digitizations of old chess materials lately, especially the periodicals.