VOLUME XXXVI, NO. 2
CONSECUTIVE NO. 124
Portrait of the Artist’s Sisters Playing Chess
Sophonisba Anguissola, 1555
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Contents
Fonts of Wisdom
by John Hillery .....................................................................................................3
Mainstream Media Watch
by Randy Hough .................................................................................................4
Letters ..........................................................................................................................6
The Long View
by John Hillery .....................................................................................................6
Come Again? ....................................................................................................7
Genesis of a Book
by Michael Weinreb ..........................................................................................8
CJA Constitution ........................................................................................9
CJA Election ..................................................... ................................................12
CJA Code of Ethics............................... ................................................13
State Association Web Sites
by Pete Tamburro...............................................................................................14
Chess Journalist of the Year . ................................................14
Chess Quiz ...........................................................................................................16
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Donations may be directed to CJA, c/o Treasurer Randy Hough (see
address at left).
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Fonts of Wisdom
by John Hillery
What is a font?
A font is a design for a set of
characters. Technically, a font and
a typeface are not quite the same
thing – a font includes a typeface,
as well as a weight (bold, italic, etc.),
pitch, and some other things. For
simplicity, however, I’m going to
use font and typeface interchangeably, risking the wrath of the purists. Tech types will no doubt also
object to my ignoring such things
as raster and vector storage, but
since the goal is not to put my readers to sleep, I’ll leave that one for
Geek Week.
Picking and choosing
There are a number of ways to
classify fonts, of varying usefulness.
If you want, Windows will arrange
your fonts by “similarity,” based
on a Bertillon-like set of measurements. The simplest distinction,
however, is between serif and sansserif.
Serifs are those little feet you see
at the bottom of some letters (take
a look at “n” and “r”). It’s been
known since Gutenberg’s time that
this structure makes large bodies
of text easier to read – the serifs
draw the eye from one letter to the
next. Examples of serif typefaces
are Times New Roman, Century
Schoolbook (what you’re reading),
and Palatia.
Sans-serif typefaces do not
have those feet. They should not
be used for large blocks of text, but
they make a stronger impact as
headlines, subheads or (small) pull
quotes. Common examples are Arial, Swiss (okay, but a little heavy for
my taste), and Franklin Gothic.
Another way to divide up fonts
is free and, well, not. There are,
literally, thousands of fonts available on line for free download. They
vary widely in quality, but lots of
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people find them like potato chips
– you can’t eat just one. (I have about
600 fonts installed. I use about six.)
The very best fonts, however, from
professional outfits like Adobe, are
not free, unless you happen to get
them bundled with software. A typical price for, e.g. Adobe Garamond
(a very nice font, by the way) is $25.
That doesn’t sound so bad, until you
realize that it’s $25 for each weight –
Roman, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic.
A third, somewhat technical distinction is between TrueType and
OpenType. TrueType was originally
developed by Apple in the late 1980s
to compete with Adobe’s proprietary
(and expensive) Postscript format.
Microsoft adopted it in 1991 for Win
3.1 (resistance is futile), and it soon
came to dominate the home computer market.
OpenType is a more recent standard developed jointly by Microsoft
and Adobe. The main differences
are: 1) Larger file capacity, so it can
handle “8-bit” fonts like Arabic and
Chinese. How did we ever get along
without this? 2) Cross-platform.
This probably does matter to big
outfits with a lot of computers, but
how many people actually run Mac
and PC systems simultaneously? 3)
Can be copy-protected. This is probably the one of most interest to the
producers, but I find it hard to swallow it as a benefit to the consumer.
4) Additional typographical features.
This is the only one likely to be of
interest to the ordinary user, and I
suspect most will never know about
it. Essentially, this amounts to using some of that extra file space (see
“8-bit” above) for some extra alternative characters – “swash” caps and
different forms of numerals (like
“Oldstyle,” in which the descenders
drop below the line). In order to use
these, however, you must a) find an
OpenType font, b) find one that sup-
ports the additional features, and c)
either have a high-end DTP program
that supports them or dig through
the character set with Charmap. A
good idea, but it still needs work.
What about diagrams?
ChessBase ships with five
diagram fonts: Crystals, Fritz,
Habsburg, Oldstyle, and USCF.
You’ll find them in your font list
under “d,” since the file names are
“DiagramTT(whatever).” (There is
also the “Linares” font, which some
people swear by but which is not
compatible with ChessBase.) The
five CB fonts are compatible, meaning that you can change the font and
still have the same diagram.
Which one is best for you? Fritz
and Crystals should be dismissed
at once. They are essentially draftmode fonts, intended to produce a
quick and crude diagram for your
game. Oldstyle is what you see in,
e.g., Alekhine’s My Best Games – the
pieces are quite detailed, down to the
bricks on the Rooks. The problem
is that, unless you are using a topend printer (the 4000 dpi kind), the
detail makes it hard to distinguish
some of the White and Black pieces.
Habsbuerg has the same problem
to a slightly lesser degree. USCF is
what Chess Life uses, and you probably should as well. It’s a cleaner design, in which the pieces are easier
to distinguish.
Which fonts should I use?
Pick a body text font and stick to
it. The default Windows font is Times
New Roman, which is certainly not
bad. It’s a little small, and trying to
save space by using anything below
10-point is a bad idea. I prefer Century Schoolbook because the loop on
the “e” is a little more pronounced.
In ordinary text this doesn’t matter,
since we draw meaning from context
– no one is going to confuse “What
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did the cat eat?” with “What did the
eat cat?” – but in game scores the
difference between “Qe2” and Qc2”
may not be so obvious. Other decent
choices are Palatia and New Boston.
For (in-text) headlines and subheads, use a san-serif font (maybe
two), and be consistent. I use Arial
(16 for heads, 10 for subheads), but
there are plenty of others, like Flair
and Franklin Gothic.
For large headlines, consider a
decorative or specialty font. This is a
quick and cheap way to liven up your
page with a graphic. Charrington
Posh makes a nice headline, and
New Mexico might be worth a try.
There are also some oddball ones
handy for special occasions, like
Snowtopcaps (if you live some place
where it snows) and Stars & Stripes
(which I use about once a year).
And now the important part:
Don’t overdo it. There is a temptation to use more and more fonts “just
because they’re there.” This results
in “ransom-note typography,” a sure
sign of the inexperienced editor and
a sure way to get your magazine
sent to the recycle bin. As a rule of
thumb, never use more than two or
three fonts on a page, or more than
five or six in an issue.
Where to find them
Windows comes with a dozen or
so fonts, more than enough for everyday use. Word has more, and
most publishing software includes a
package of fonts. Of course, there’s
often some overlap, but less than
you might think. If you want more
(and if you don’t, why would this article interest you?) there are plenty
of download sites on the web.
www.webpagepublicity.com/freefonts-c2.html – 6500+ free fonts
www.fontface.com/fonts/k.html
– Not as many fonts, but they claim
to be more selective, including only
their “Fonts of the Day.”
www.myfonts.com – 54,000(!) fonts,
many of top quality, but they’re not
free.
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Mainstream Media Watch
by Randy Hough
Gary Kasparov remains much
in the news, but we’ll refrain from
citing the typical stories about his
participation in pro-democracy in
Russia demonstrations, followed
by arrest and prompt release. One
begins to wonder whether his energies might be more fruitfully devoted to, say, rehabilitating Damiano’s
Defense.
ploying a number of links to buttress his points, Saletan reviews
computers’ results against worldclass players and attempts to reassure us: “Don’t be afraid. We, too,
are getting smarter, and computers
are a big reason why. They’re not
our enemies. They’re our offspring—
our creations, helpers, and challengers.”
But Gary is a man on a mission.
In “The Master’s Next Move” (Time,
May 29), Michael Elliott and Yuri
Zarakhovich trace the beginnings
of Kasparov’s political career to FIDÉ’s halting of his first world championship match in 1985. Determined
to bring democracy to a nation that
shows little sign of desiring it, he
says, “I don’t want to look back now.
I have a new life now.”
The Times of London (April
11) carries a review of Kasparov’s
new book, How Life Imitates Chess
(“Garry Kasparov’s Deadly Gambit”), by Daniel Johnson, who finds
that “the extraordinary personality of its author” lifts the book high
among others of the self-help genre.
Dealing with his mixed cultural
heritage and learning from his protracted battles at the board with
Anatoly Karpov are among the experiences that add credibility to his
insights and to his determination
to effect political change. Johnson
concludes, “Garry Kasparov has
every reason to be intimidated. Yet
this coded manifesto of a book is
only the latest sign that his courage
at the chessboard has not deserted
him in the political arena.”
Slate’s William Saletan considers “Chess bump: the triumphant
teamwork of humans and computers” (May 11; a different version appears in the Washington Post, May
13: “We’ve Made Our Match”). Em-
I t ’s
huma ns
that keep
c o m puters
ahead of
the game.
C o m puter opponents
once had a better understanding of
how other factors can balance material; the programmers overcame
that. Then the opponents tried “anticomputer chess,” cluttering things
up and making mysterious moves.
But “Now programmers are adding a third layer: anti-anti-computer
chess. They’re teaching machines to
break old habits, see through clutter,
and force the wide-open bloodbaths
at which computers excel.” Kramnik’s 2003 loss to Deep Fritz seems
to bear out the philosophy that we
can’t beat ‘em, so let’s pay tribute to
those human programmers.
Another fine Slate writer, Ann
Hulbert, considers chess in her
“Sandbox” column about kids
(“Chess goes to school: How, and
why, the game caught on among
young Americans,” May 2). The
Fischer boom of the 70s was replaced by somewhat of a bust with
Bobby’s disappearance. “But by
the late 1980s, chess had acquired
cachet as a cutting-edge youthful
extracurricular pursuit and be-
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gan to infiltrate high-priced private schools and inner-city public
schools…In one sense, what has
happened over the past 35 years
could be described as the domestication of chess: the transformation
of an abstruse game allied with innate brilliance (and madness) into
an educational tool for training
mental skills and attitudes.”
Citing Michael Weinreb’s The
Kings of New York (about the Edward R. Murrow team in Brooklyn,
which features two IMs), (ed. note:
see page 8) Hulbert points out that
“The latest research findings argue
against elevating aptitude over effort, or expecting a fierce focus on
the game to translate readily into
mastery or a sense of purpose beyond the board. Chess expertise, recent studies suggest, is based on laboriously amassing a bigger ‘store
of structured knowledge,’ rather
than on intrinsically powerful analytic capacities.”
Chess “… has an allure that motivates kids to do the hard work of
honing basic skills and then discovering their own styles, goaded ever
onward by a rating system that
can show them every increment of
improvement. Ruthless standards
and dizzying freedom, all in one
package,” But Hulbert is forced to
conclude with a salutary warning
about the potential for obsession.
The Murrow team is the subject
of an article by Timothy Williams
in the New York Times (“Teenage
riddle: Skipping class, mastering
chess,” April 13). The focus is on
Shawn Martinez, 16, often truant, failing classes, but allowed to
remain on the team that won the
Nationals this spring. “I love chess
with a passion. It’s all the situations
you get put in — it’s like life to me.
It’s like anger to me. Sometimes, if
I don’t like something that’s happening, I can take my anger out
on the chessboard.” The obsession
mentioned by Hulbert represents a
painful downside, and young Martinez acknowledges that. He’s now
seeking a GED.
hackneyed phrases. It is impossible to draw a firm line between hackneyed phrases and clichés: they are genera of the same species. They are at
the same time endearing and irreplaceable, and maddening and replaceable.
Used sparingly they pass unnoticed, or even add a touch of quality, in novels,
short stories, journalism, and some other kinds of writing. In passages that
already lack any element of excitement or real interest they are unendurable. In obituaries they flourish like moss: he did not suffer fools gladly; he
had the defects of his qualities (see below).
Many hackneyed phrases are mere allusions to famous passages in literature or politics: to be or not to be (Shakespeare); not with a bang but
a whimper (T.S. Eliot); the wind of change (H. MacMillan). Many others,
equally current, are drawn from possibly less well-known or half-remembered sources: the cups that cheer but not inebriate (Cowper); a consummation devoutly to be wished (Shakespeare’s Hamlet); a fit audience though few
(c.f. Milton’s … fit audience find, though few); the feast of reason and the flow
of soul (Pope); conspicuous by his absence (from a speech of 1859 by Lord
John Russell). Some are of Biblical origin: Is there no balm in Gilead? (Jer.
8:22); For the King of Babylon stood at the parting of the way (Ezek 21:21);
For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing you yourselves are wise (2 Cor. 11:19). A
diminishing number are drawn from classical sources: O tempora, O mores
(Oh what times, Oh what habits—Cicero); Hoc genus omne (All their kith
and kin—Horace); In vino veritas (Truth comes out in wine—Pliny).
These are but a small selection from a virtually limitless list.
R.W. Burchfield, Fowler’s Modern English Usage, 3rd ed.
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And on a brighter note: BBC
World Service reported April 26
on Alec Holden, who celebrated his
100th birthday by winning 25,000
pounds from a bookmaker who ten
years ago had given him 250/1 odds
that he wouldn’t reach the centenary mark. Mr. Holden is a daily
player, and runs his local club. Eating porridge for breakfast and minimizing worrying are other factors
behind his success.
The Atlantic’s “Primary Sources” summarizes the Chabris/Glickman study of gender differences
(“Searching for Bobbie Ann Fischer,” June, p. 36). Attentive CJ readers were already aware of it (March
CJ, p. 9).
Finally, let’s mention a resource
for journalists: the Consumer News
and Referral Center has a page devoted to chess: http://www.ng2000.
com/fw.php?tp=chess. It features
top stories daily and has links and
a chat room.
ON THE COVER. Portrait of the Artist’s Sisters Playing Chess, by by
Sofonisba Anguissola, (c. 1530-1625).
That women could be intellectually accomplished and highly rational, even
strategic, are the complementary
themes of a family portrait showing
Anguissola’s three sisters playing chess.
In this painting, which Vasari saw
hanging in the artist’s family home in
Cremona in 1566 the chivalric game of
chess takes place in an idealized landscape familiar in late medieval courtly
images of the game and not in a tavern
or other questionable locale seen in
other contemporary representations of
gaming. On the far left Lucia looks out
at the viewer, dominating our gaze as
her arm and obvious expertise dominate the chess board. She has removed
two of Minerva’s pieces from the game
and the younger sister opens her mouth
and raises her hand as if to speak.
Their youngest companion, Europa,
smiles gleefully at the match, carefully
observed by an old maid servant at the
far right.
The three Anguissola women are
members of a natural nobility capable
of entertaining themselves, their status
emphasized by the rich surface detail
on their brocaded clothes and the fine
Turkish carpet set over their table.
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 Letters  
Dear chess journalists.
I’m pleased to call to your attention the June issue of Chess Life,
which hit the streets in late May, featuring a 5000+ word cover story by
yours truly. Notably, the issue may
also be found in a special display at
forty-seven Barnes & Noble stores
around the country -- the first time
this has happened.
The piece started as a simple
report on the Corus tournament,
in Wijk aan Zee, The Netherlands,
where I had intended to play in the
open. Instead, much like last year,
I ended up covering the event for
Chess Life (Online), but with an add-
ed daily component of live ICC Chess.
FM reports -- something which I’ve
continued since at Linares, M-Tel,
and Dortmund.
I had the chance to conduct several interviews, notably with Karjakin, Radjabov, and Navarra, who,
along with Carlsen, were the youngest players in the A-group. The genesis of my story was the realization
that this was the youngest field of
GMs ever in the Corus top group.
From there it grew into a piece
about the differences between growing up with chess in Europe and the
U.S., and the changing landscape of
the elite level generally.
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the dual threats of 22. Qh5 (22. ...
h6 23. Qg6 hxg5 24. Qh5 mate) and
22. Nf7+, winning the Exchange
(that hanging Bishop on d6).
A
by John Hillery
game from a century ago which
illustrates the dangers of symmetry and the value of the initiative.
Marshall – Schlechter
Ostend 1907
D28 QUEEN’S GAMBIT ACCEPTED
1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e3 Nf6 4.
Bxc4 e6 5. Nf3 a6 6. 0-0 c5 7. Nc3
Qc7 8. Qe2 Nc6 9. a3 b5 10. Ba2
Bb7 11. dxc5 Bxc5 12. b4 Bd6 13.
Bb2 0-0 14. Rac1 Qe7
As a result of the inaccurate 7. ...
Qc7, Black must lose time.
15. Bb1 Rac8
Better was 15. ... Ne5, with the
tactical point that 16. Nxe5 Bxe5
17. Nxb5 leads only to a draw after
17. ... Bxb2 18. Rc7 Qe8 19. Nd6 Qd8
20. Rxb7 Qxd6 21. Qxb2 Qc6, with
“perpetual check” on the Rook.
16. Ne4 Nxe4 17. Bxe4 f5 18.
Bb1 e5 19. Rfd1 e4
Opening too many lines, and
White’s more active Rooks suddenly
become decisive. Necessary was 19.
... Bb8.
20. Ba2+ Kh8 21. Ng5! Qxg5
There was no other defense to
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22. Rd6 Rfd8 23. h4!
XIIIIIIIIY
9-+rtr-+-mk0
9+l+-+-zpp0
9p+ntR-+-+0
9+p+-+pwq-0
9-zP-+p+-zP0
9zP-+-zP-+-0
9LvL-+QzPP+0
9+-tR-+-mK-0
xiiiiiiiiy
23. ... Qg4
Black is lost. Some clever variations pointed out by Marshall are
i.) 23. ... Qxh4 24. Bxg7+! Kxg7 25.
Qb2+ Kf8 26. Qh8+ Ke7 27. Re6+
Kd7 28. Qg7+ Ne7 29. Rd1+ Kc7 30.
Qe5+ and mate next, and ii.) 23. ...
Qe7 24. Re6 Qd7 25. h5 Qd2 26. h6!
Qxe2 27. hxg7+ Kg8 28. Re8 mate.
24. Qd2 Rxd6 25. Qxd6 Rd8
26. Qc7 Ba8 27. Bb3 f4 28. Rxc6
Rf8 29. Qe7, Black resigns.
I wound up interviewing at
length, not just Radjabov, Karjakin,
Carlsen, and Nakamura -- the principal subjects -- but Maxim-Vachier
Lagrave (a young French player),
Greg Shahade, Anna Zatonskih,
Ray Robson, Gregory Kaidanov, and
Michael Khodarkovsky.
Although I shudder to think how
many hours in total must have gone
into the story over the 2-3 month
period (I wasn’t keeping track), I’m
generally quite happy with the piece,
and I think it’s a good example of the
kind of feature writing that Chess
Life has been providing since last
summer’s redesign.
Additional information, audio,
video and photos, can be found at
my website: www.MacauleyPeterson.com.
Kind regards,
Macauley Petersen
k
Dear sir,
With a sincere regret I have to
inform the world chess community
about the recent incident of an outright plagiarism. In 2006 the Russian publishing house “Astrel – AST
– Tranzitkniga” has published the
book “Encyclopedia of Chess Combinations” by the author N.M. Kalinichenko. This book is the exact
copy of my chess training CD “Intensive Course Tactics”, that was
released several years earlier by
the German company ChessBase.
For the past twenty years, whenever I had some free time from
my full-time job, during evenings
and weekends I have been gathering the material and developing
an original classification of chess
combinations for my CDs. And now
the main chess work of my life is stolen and published under somebody
else’s name.
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It is especially regretable to see
that a renowned chess master, an
author of many great books on chess
theory, has stained his name with
plagiarism.
George Renko
[[We have no further information on this subject, and can neither
affirm not deny the accuracy of Mr.
Renko’s statements. We would be
happy to hear from the publisher, or
from anyone else able to shed light
on the matter. – ed]]
k
CJA member Howard Goldowsky
writes:
“My book, Engaging Pieces, a collection of my interviews, fiction, and
in-depth reviews from the past six
years, goes to the printer this week.”
Review copies for the book should be
available by the beginning of June.
CJA members wishing to review the
book should send requests to Howard. The scheduled release date is
June 19.
A URL to the Amazon page (preorders are being accepted) is http://
tinyurl.com/2bmzat .
PREFACE
During the last six years, I’ve
contributed interviews, fiction, and
opinions to a variety of state, national, and online chess magazines.
This book, a complete collection of
my chess writing, is the culmination of that work. Its title, Engaging
Pieces, describes both the art writers strive to create and the medium
with which chess players strive to
create art.
I compiled this book for the same
reason I began writing about chess
in the first place: I wanted to share
my curiosity about the cultural,
social, and competitive nature of
the game. Thus, the topics running through these pages include
complex, contemporary issues that
I wanted to make accessible to the
public. Some of these topics include
the details of chess rating systems,
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the interaction of artificial intelligence with chess computers, the
relationship between feminism and
women’s chess, the marketing and
promotion of chess, and the question of whether or not chess is a
sport. Simply put, I’m a chess fan.
Each article and story represents
the type of in-depth and entertaining chess writing that I, and other
chess fans, deserve to read.
After reading this book, it will
become evident that chess players
and those surrounding the game
are dynamic and passionate people.
For example, my first interview, a
profile of Michael de la Maza, was
written because I was curious about
his obsession with chess tactics, and
I was fascinated by his rapid rating
ascension; Maurice Ashley’s vision
of chess promotion prompted my
essay about the HB Global Chess
Challenge; the humble yet impudent personality of a young Hikaru
Nakamura inspired a conversation
with him right before he won the
U.S. Championship in 2005; and a
brash, chess-playing homeless man
panhandling in Harvard Square
became the archetype for a character in the short story “When the
Balance be in Your Favor.”
It is rare to see both fiction and
non-fiction published in one volume.
Yet having all of my chess writing
collected in one place ties my work
into a convenient package, and
helps bring closure to one stage of
my writing career. In the future, I’d
like to spend more time improving
my chess ability and pursuing other
literary interests.
Lastly, many of the pieces here
contain a postscript. These are
brief, one hundred to seven hundred
word updates about related events
that have transpired since an article was originally published. These
postscripts add a current perspective to each article, and, if necessary, they will help bring the reader
up to date. I hope these articles and
stories prove to be as enjoyable to
read as they were to write.
Come Again?
Was he smiling?
“Tiger Apologizes for Rajiv Gandhi’s Death” – headline, Associated
Press, June 27
Fiber in your diet
“Belgium Local Authorities Deny
Barbequing Tax Reports” – headline, Novosti (Russia), April 4
“Texas Man Catches Fish With
Human-Like Teeth” – headline,
Internet Broadcasting System,
July 19
Ouch
“Europe High-Speed Train Sees
Passenger Jump” – headline, MSNBC.com, Aug. 14
Civil service
“Hancock Co. Seeking Child
Molester” – headline, Indianapolis
Star, Aug. 14
“Police Guild Advertises for Tips
in Beating” – headline, Seattle
Times, Sept. 7
“Leahy Wants FBI to Help Corrupt Iraqi Police Force” – headline,
CNN.com, Dec. 13
“Police Seek Help in Killing”
– headline, Orange County (Calif.)
Register, March 26
“Police Looking for Bogus ‘Faith
Healer’” – headline, San Francisco
Chronicle, May 30
Feeling much better
“An 80-year-old woman killed by
her husband in a murder-suicide
in a Penticton [British Columbia]
hospital on Tuesday was awaiting
transfer to a long-term care facility.” – Canadian Press, Aug. 29
New medical discovery
“Fog of Alcoholism Clears With
Sobriety” – headline, WebMD Medical News, Aug. 2
Guns don’t kill people …
“Authorities Seek Gunman After Victim Shot by Bar” – headline,
Times (Trenton, N.J.), Nov. 15
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Genesis of a Book
by Michael Weinreb
I
n the spring of 2004, I was working as a sportswriter at a New
York
metropolitan
newspaper
when a fax landed on my desk. It
was written by the coach of a highschool chess team. Why it came to
me, of all people, I do not know. I
did not write anything from this
fax, and I could not imagine my editors permitting me to write much
of anything about it, but I saved it,
anyway. I kept it through the summer, and on into the fall, and then
in September, I called the number
at the bottom of the page and spoke
to a man named Eliot Weiss.
I had never heard of the school
where Eliot Weiss taught, Edward
R. Murrow High in Brooklyn. This
is because most of the high schools
I knew something about had strong
basketball teams, or
football
teams,
or
baseball
teams,
or
handball
teams. But
Murrow
did not have
a basketball
team, or a football
team, or a baseball team,
or even a handball team. Murrow,
in fact, did not have any varsity
athletics. But what it did have was
a chess team. And this chess team
had just won a national high-school
championship, something that was
becoming a regular occurrence under the guidance of Eliot Weiss, who
had begun recruiting Soviet immigrants in the late 1980s and now
had built a rainbow coalition of the
city¹s most talented players.
So I started showing up on
Thursday afternoons at this school,
in the Midwood section of Brooklyn,
where students were given an unprecedented amount of freedom to
take the classes they wanted
and spend their idle time as
they saw fit, even if meant
simply hanging around in the
hallways in their free periods.
I met kids from Lithuania and
St. Petersburg (including two
International Masters), kids
from Martinique and Puerto
Rico and Haiti and, of course,
kids from Brooklyn.
Many years earlier, I had
read a book about a group
of basketball players from
Brooklyn’s
Coney
Island
neighborhood, called The Last
Shot. I had also read a book about
a high-school football team from
Texas, called Friday Night Lights.
Even before I began writing this
book, I assumed it
would share
c er t a i n
s t r uc tural
similarit i e s
w i t h
those titles.
It would be a
sporting narrative with digressions
into various aspects of the subculture it explored: About growing up
an immigrant, about growing up
poor, about the world of youth chess,
about the drawbacks of overcrowding in schools and the No Child
Left Behind Act, about the dearth
of women playing chess, about the
junior-high school that served as a
feeder program for Murrow, about
the lack of sponsorship and money
for American chess players.
It didn’t matter to me that many
people in America did not consider
chess to be a sport, but a leisure
pursuit akin to Monopoly and
It
is a story I stumbled
across, and it is a story I never
could have imagined writing
until I began writing it.
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Parcheesi and
Doom. (Because
those who play
chess
quickly
convinced
me
that it is much
more.) And it
didn’t
matter
that I knew virtually nothing
about chess—in
fact, it was almost better that
way. I was a
blank slate.
The book I
wrote is called
The Kings of New York: A Year
Among the Geeks, Oddballs, and
Genuises Who Make Up America’s
Top High School Chess Team. It is
the story of a school, and a coach,
and a team, and a season, but with
chess clubs sprouting up all over
the country and youth chess continuing to grow in popularity, it is a
universal story. It is a story I stumbled across, and it is a story I never
could have imagined writing until I
began writing it. And even now, it
continues to surprise me.
The book can be ordered at
Amazon.com
(http://tinyurl.com/
2yn3gf),
BarnesandNoble.com
(http://tinyurl.com/2dsa34),
or
purchased at any local bookstore.
Please let me know if you have any
trouble locating it, and I’m hoping
you and your members will share
your thoughts if and when you’ve
had a chance to read it.
(Michael Weinreb may be reached at
[email protected])
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CONSTITUTION OF THE CHESS
JOURNALISTS OF AMERICA
Adopted August 11, 1980
as amended November 4, 2006
PREAMBLE
 To encourage chess journalists, writers, editors, and publishers to exchange information and
ideas for their mutual benefit;
 To promote the highest standards of ethics in chess journalism;
 To represent United States
chess journalists in appropriate national and international bodies;
 To influence policies affecting
the promotion of chess;
 For each and all of the purposes, an association is formed pursuant to these Bylaws.
ARTICLE I — NAME
The name of the association
shall be Chess Journalists of America, abbreviated CJA.
ARTICLE II — MEMBERS
There are four types of membership. Regular Members and Honorary Members, who may vote and
are responsible for the approval of
Bylaws, the election of officers, and
the formulation of association policies; Associate Members and Foreign Members who are invited to
participate in all association activities but may not vote or hold office.
All members are entitled to receive
the Association’s official publication and to participate in the association’s annual awards program. All
members pledge to uphold the purposes and ideals of the association
and to abide by its Code of Ethics.
Regular Membership: Any
United States citizen or resident
who is active in chess in a profes-
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sional or quasiprofessional capacity as a journalist, writer, editor, or
publisher may become a Regular
Member upon payment of dues as
established by the Executive Board
and approved by the membership
at an Annual Business Meeting
for each year or membership. The
writing or publishing of reports as
a function of elected or appointed
office, or the writing or publishing
of brief tournament reports by a
tournament organizer, shall not in
itself be sufficient qualification for
Regular Membership. Questionable
cases shall be decided by the Executive Committee, subject to appeal
to the Annual Meeting.
Foreign Membership: Any
practicing chess journalist who is
not a resident of the United States
may become a Foreign Member
upon payment of dues at the rate
of 1.5 times the dues for Regular
Membership for each year of membership. Foreign Members may not
hold office and may not vote.
Associate Membership: Any
resident of the United States may
become an Associate Member of the
CJA upon payment of the Regular
Membership dues per year of membership. Associate Members may
not hold office and may not vote.
Honorary Membership: (A)
Honorary Members are awarded
Life membership in the CJA. (B)
The Chess Journalist of the Year is
awarded an Honorary Membership
unless two members of the Executive Board oppose such awarding.
(C) Honorary Members are nomi-
nated by a unanimous vote of the Executive Board (with no abstentions
save an Executive Board member
must abstain if being nominated).
The nomination is then presented
to the membership at the Annual
Meeting, at which the candidate
must receive an 80% approval vote
of those voting. (D) Honorary members are not required to pay dues,
but have all other rights and obligations of Regular Membership, including the right to hold office. (E)
Honorary Membership is non-revocable; therefore, a candidate must
have demonstrated, throughout a
significantly long career in chess
journalism, adherence to the highest ideals of journalistic ethics. (F)
No more than two Honorary Members shall be selected in any year.
ARTICLE III — OFFICERS
Any Regular or Honorary Member may hold any office. The officers are President, Vice-President,
Secretary- Treasurer, Editor of the
official publication, and the Webmaster, who together constitute
the Executive Board with the President as chairman. The Editor is appointed by the President to a term
of unspecified length. The other
Officers shall be elected by the voting membership to concurrent twoyear terms. Officers individually
and the Executive Board as a group
are subject to the authority of the
membership.
President: The President calls
and presides at meetings of the
membership and of the Executive
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Board and is responsible for the
overall operation of the association
in accordance with these By-Laws
and the will of the membership. As
Chairman of the Executive Board,
the President reports its activities
to the membership. The President
appoints the Editor and the Webmaster, subject to approval by a majority of the remainder of the Executive Board. The President has one
vote on the Executive Board and a
second vote to break ties.
Vice President: The VicePresident assumes the duties of
the President when the President
is unable to serve. He has one vote
on the Executive Board, even in the
President’s absence.
Secretary/Treasurer:
The
Secretary-Treasurer keeps the
association’s financial accounts,
maintains its bank accounts, submits the annual budget to the Executive Board and the member-ship,
keeps the official minutes of the
Annual Meeting, keeps the official
membership records, and is responsible for renewal mailings, etc. The
Secretary-Treasurer has one vote
on the Executive Board.
Editor: The Editor is responsible for the editing, production, and
distribution of the association’s publication. The Editor has one vote on
the Executive Board.
Webmaster: The Webmaster
shall be responsible for the setting
up and maintaining of the CJA webpage( s). Materials submitted by
members of the Executive Committee (such as minutes, general notices, etc.) shall be posted in as timely a
manner as possible. The Webmaster
must have demonstrated such abilities prior to assuming this position.
The Webmaster shall have one vote
on the Executive Committee.
Executive Board: In addition to the other duties specified in
these By-laws, the Executive Board
shall: (1) approve the Chairmen of
Permanent Committees named by
the President; (2) select representatives to appropriate bodies; (3)
nominate Honorary Members; (4)
rule on questions of membership el-
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igibility; (5) verify election results;
(6) review the annual budget; (7)
prepare agendas for membership
meetings; and (8) resolve disputes
among members.
ARTICLE IV — REMOVAL OF
OFFICERS
An appointed officer (Webmaster, Editor, Chairs of Permanent
Committee) may be removed by
a vote in favor of doing so by 2 of
the 3 elected Officers. Should this
happen, it should not be considered
malfeasance in any manner.
If it is alleged that an elected or
appointed officer has committed
gross malfeasance that may warrant his removal from office, a recall petition shall adhere to the following requirements:
1. The petition shall state full
particulars.
2. The petition must be approved/signed by at least 10 current
CJA members.
3. The petition shall include for
each member listed in “2” the following: name, home phone number,
e-mail address, and postal address,
so that any questions of authenticity can quickly be handled.
4. The Executive Board shall appoint a chairman and at least two
other members of a special Recall
Committee; the member submitting the petition has right of refusal
for the chairman’s appointment.
5. The Chairman and each member of the Recall Committee must
satisfy at least one of the following:
1) have been a CJA member for at
least 5 years; 2.) be a current CJA
Officer; or 3.) be a current board
member of the Cramer Committee/Chess Trust. The Officer whose
service is being questioned may not
be a member of the Recall Committee, nor may he vote on any matters
dealing with the Committee.
6. The most recent CJA mailing list, whether published in The
Chess Journalist or on the Web,
shall serve as the basis for voting.
7. The Recall Committee Chairman, along with the Elections Committee Chairman or the Webmas-
ter or their substitute appointee(s),
shall establish methods for voting,
whether electronic or via mail.
8. Once the Recall petition is
certified by the Executive Board
and the Committee is appointed,
the named officer shall have 15
days to respond to the petition, and
his/her response must be used in all
further mailings.
9. The Petition and response
shall be sent to all members for
voting purposes. Should this occur
within 30 days of the Annual Meeting, then the actual voting will take
place at the meeting. Otherwise, a
mail and/or electronic voting procedure shall be used.
10. The Elections Committee
shall establish a means to ensure
that the voting is done properly.
11. Once a minimum of 20 votes
have been counted by the Chairman of the Elections Committee or
substitute, the results shall be published on the Web, with no method
of identifying which vote is from
which member.
12. A 2/3 majority of the votes
cast is needed for the petition to be
considered passed.
13. If the Recall passes, then the
Executive Board is responsible for
electing a replacement Officer, unless it is within 60 days of the Annual Business Meeting. If this is
the case, then the Officer may be
replaced by the Membership at the
meeting.
14. The recalled Officer may not
be reappointed to the Office just vacated due to the Petition.
15. The Secretary/Treasurer
may reimburse the Recall Committee for any reasonable expenses,
subject to limits set by the Executive Board.
ARTICLE V — SUCCESSION OF
OFFICERS
If an Officer is unable to complete his term of office, those functions may be assumed by the next
Officer in line, in the descending order: President, Vice President, Secretary-Treasurer, Editor, Webmaster; if an orderly succession is not
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feasible, the Executive Board may,
by majority vote, appoint a Regular
or Honorary Member to complete
the unexpired term.
ARTICLE VI — ANNUAL MEETING
The membership shall meet
once a year, in conjunction with the
annual United States Open Chess
Championship, to conduct the formal business of the association. A
quorum shall consist of those members present in person.
The Executive Board shall meet
prior to the Annual Meeting to discuss the budget, the agenda, and
other matters it may wish to bring
before the membership.
The President or another Officer
shall arrange for meeting rooms
and all other needed facilities and
shall announce, well in advance,
the annual meeting’s date, place,
and preliminary agenda.
ARTICLE VII — PUBLICATION
The Association’s official publication shall be The Chess Journalist,
which shall be issued at least four
times a year. The Chess Journalist
shall print the minutes of official
meetings, either in full or in summary; official notices to members;
results of association elections;
summaries of committee reports;
and other items of official business.
The Chess Journalist shall print annually a list of all current members’
names and addresses; and in each
issue, the names and addresses of
Officers and Committee Chairmen.
The Editor is solely responsible for
the editing, production, and content
of The Chess Journalist, except as
specified above.
The Chess Journalist shall be
available to non-members of the
Association at a price to be determined by the Executive Board.
ARTICLE VIII — AWARDS
The Association shall conduct
an annual awards program to recognize achievement in chess journalism. All matters pertaining to
the conduct of the program shall
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be the responsibility of the Awards
Committee.
The President (with the Executive Board having the right to veto
any such appointment by a 2/3 vote)
shall, considering the advice of the
Awards Committee Chair, appoint a
“Chief Judge,” whose tasks, among
others, shall be to arrange for other
CJA members to act as judges as
needed, to distribute the materials
submitted to the various judges, to
tally the results and report them
to the President/Executive Board,
and to arrange for the list of award
winners to be submitted to the CJA
Webmaster as well as any other
publications.
ARTICLE IX — ELECTIONS
An election of Officers shall be
held every second year. Each candidate, including incumbents, must
be nominated by at least two Regular or Honorary Members who are
not themselves candidates. The
deadline for receipt of nominations
shall be set by the Executive Board
and published in The Chess Journalist at least sixty days in advance
of the deadline. Nominations must
be mailed to both the Secretary and
Editor. The list of candidates shall
be printed in The Chess Journalist
together with the official mail ballot, voting instructions, the deadline for receipt of the ballots, and
a statement of no more than one
hundred words by each candidate.
Write-in votes shall be allowed.
The Elections Committee shall
establish necessary criteria for voting electronically, in coordination
with the Webmaster. For those who
are voting by US Mail, the instructions shall include:
“After marking your ballot, place
it in an envelope, sign your name on
the envelope, print your name and
address and the word BALLOT on
the face of the envelope, and send
it to the Secretary. Do not place
anything else in the envelope. To
be counted, your ballot must be received by the specified date and the
envelope must be signed with your
name.”
Envelopes containing ballots
shall be held unopened by the Secretary, who shall bring them or
otherwise safely transmit them to
the place of the membership meeting at the time set by the Executive
Board for the counting of the ballots. At that time and place, and in
public view, the envelopes shall be
unsealed and the ballots counted.
Voters using electronic voting
shall submit their votes to both the
Elections Chair and the Webmaster,
following the guide-lines provided
by those two.
Winners are determined by a
majority or plurality of valid votes.
Upon verification of the vote totals
by the Executive Board, the election is officially certified and the
Officers installed at the close of the
meeting.
In an election year if, by the time
of the annual membership meeting,
the mail ballot nomination and election system has failed to fill an elective office, then the voting members
(Regular and Honorary) present at
the annual membership meeting
are empowered to nominate and
elect a candidate to fill that office.
ARTICLE X — COMMITTEES
Each Chair of a Permanent Committee shall determine the number
of members needed to carry out the
duties of that committee. Members
may be added when necessary at
the discretion of the Chair. A Committee may exist as a Committee-ofone if deemed that no other members are necessary at that time.
The duties of each committee
are listed in the By- Laws.
There are five Permanent Committees, whose Chairs are appointed by a majority vote of the Executive Board. In general, in order to
prevent the appearance of a conflict
of interest, Chairs of Permanent
Committees should not be members
of the Executive Board. Each Chair
shall establish that committee’s
procedures, appoint its members,
and report its activities to the membership. Ad Hoc committees may be
appointed by the Executive Board
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or by the voting members in attendance at a membership meeting.
ARTICLE XI - AMENDMENTS
1. If there are no contrary provisions in any Federal, State, or
other law applicable to the CJA, or
in its Constitution or its By-Laws,
or in any special rules of order that
may have been adopted, Robert’s
Rules of Order shall be the authority for all questions of procedures,
committee business, and all other
CJA business. The President may
appoint a Parliamentarian at the
Business Meeting, if needed. The
most current version shall be the
authority.
2. Changes/Amendments to this
Constitution may be made by either of two methods: after publishing such proposed changes in The
Chess Journalist and on the web, by
a (i) 80% vote in favor by the entire
voting membership or (ii) by a 60%
vote in favor at two consecutive Annual Meetings.
3. Changes to these By-Laws
may be enacted by a majority vote
of those members present at the
membership meeting.
BYLAWS:
1. Dues for regular memberships
are set at $10 per year.
2. No officer of this Organization shall profit monetarily by his
actions as an Officer. (This does
not preclude an officer acting as a
Judge from keeping any materials
sent to him as part of the voting, or
for the Editor and/or Webmaster
to be paid a stipend as set by the
Executive Board.) Any reasonable
expenses incurred by such officers
[elected or appointed] acting on behalf of the CJA may be reimbursed
upon approval of the remainder of
the Executive Board.
3. Committees duties
Bylaws: The Bylaws Committee considers revision of and
amendments to the Bylaws. The
Committee’s recommendations and
any other proposals shall be offered
for debate at membership meetings
and, if approved, printed in The
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Chess Journalist for adoption or rejection by a majority of the ballots
cast by Regular or Honorary Members. The By-Laws Committee shall
undertake a review of the Constitution and By-Laws whenever deemed
necessary. No more than 5 years
may elapse between reviews, even
if no changes are needed.
Ethics: Allegations that a member has violated the Association’s
Code of Ethics shall be investigated
by the Ethics Committee, which
shall determine what action, if any,
should be taken.
Awards: The Awards Committee is responsible for conducting the
Association’s annual awards program, establishing its categories,
selecting the judges, arranging the
displays, filing its report for publication in The Chess Journalist and
elsewhere, and all other matters
pertaining to the Awards program.
Outreach: The Outreach Committee exists to foster communication between the CJA and
mainstream journalists, and to encourage mainstream journalists to
actively participate in CJA activities.
Elections: Elections Committee shall be in charge of any and
all elections. It shall establish any
necessary criteria for allowing electronic voting, in collaboration with
the Webmaster. Should the Secretary/Treasurer be a candidate for
an election, then the Chair of this
committee shall be responsible for
determining a satisfactory person
to receive the ballots and transmit
same to the Annual Meeting.
CJA Election
Please follow instructions fon the
ballot enclosed with this issue. This
is the first time in over a decasde
that the CJA has had a contested
election, and we urge all members
to take the opportunity to vote.
Candidate
Statements
President
Jerry Hanken
------------------It has been a somewhat mixed
blessing but mostly a pleasure to
serve as president of CJA for the
past almost two years. I have made
a real effort to improve the organization through a personal “membership drive” which has significantly
increased the number and quality
of our membership, as well as our
prestige. All committee chairs are
filled, and we’ve both streamlined
and clarified our awards program. If
reelected I hope to work with a likeminded Board to continue to make
CJA an organization that earns respect from the chess world
Vice President
Ira Lee Riddle
------------------I am running for the CJA VicePresidency this year. I have served
as President for 6 years and twice
was in charge of rewriting the Bylaws. Throughout my years in CJA,
I have proved that I can work with
anyone. I would hope that this election is civil in nature, unlike the current USCF electioneering. I ask for
your support.
Secretary-Treasurer
Daren Dillinger
---------------------Not known outside of CJA officials – Alarming problems have occurred this term.
As Vice-president, I’ve seen those
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who have done much work for chess,
BUT misuse their influence and
good will.
Therefore, with my background*
I seek to bring back integrity to the
Treasurer’s position.
Hough’s eight years with no financial statements AND now refusing access to financial records, is a
black mark on us.
Despite tolerance from our president – This hidden records policy
should not stand!
*= See Campaign website (with
updates):
http://chessjournalists.
teach-nology.com
Randall Hough
--------------------I‘ve contributed countless hours
to CJA’s success by logging receipts,
maintaining the membership list,
generating labels, coordinating
magazine printing and mailing, taking meeting minutes, preparing financial statements and budgets, and
maximizing asset interest. Service
on USCF’s Executive Board helps
keep me in touch with journalists
and organizers around the country.
My opponent has disseminated many
scurrilous charges to chessplayers
both within and outside CJA, and
despite being an officer missed the
last three annual meetings. Please
give me the chance to continue the
Secretary/Treasurer’s role in responsible stewardship and making
this an organization of which we can
be proud. www.randyhough.com/
Advertising policies for The Chess Journalist
(effective 10/31/06)
1) Ad rate $150/page (fractional pages proportional).
2) All ad copy and payment must be received
by the editorial deadline (12/5, 3/5, 6/5, 9/5). If
copy or payment is not received by that date,
the ad will not appear.
3) The editor reserves the right to reject any ad
for any reason. If an ad is rejected, payment
will be refunded.
Notes:
a) All copy (paper or electronic) must be camera-ready. We do not provide free design or
layout services.
b) Reasons for rejecting ad copy include, but
are not limited to: 1) Inappropriate content
(e.g. ads for generic Viagra); 2) Foul language;
3) Actual or potential libel, defined as defamatory factual assertions not provably true.
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CHESS JOURNALISTS OF
AMERICA CODE OF ETHICS
adopted August 11, 1980
A
ll journalism is reducible to a
single primary function: to inform. In all its many forms, journalism is a public trust; therefore, the
ethical journalist is duty-bound to
protect the public interest and to
preserve his own credibility and
that of his publication. The two
main ethical ideals on which the
following guidelines are based are
Truthfulness and Fairness.
1. The public’s right to know is
served when it is given all the facts.
It is the responsibility of the journalist to ensure the accuracy of
what he published. The omission of
a relevant fact is a distortion of the
truth. Significant errors in a published article should be corrected
as soon as possible after they are
discovered.
2. The journalist must be scrupulous
in distinguishing between fact and
opinion and must make the difference clear to his readers.
3. It is not ethical for a journalist
or editor knowingly to misrepresent the organization he ostensibly
serves or to improperly use its publication for personal ends.
4. Elected and appointed officials
are accountable, but so are journalists and editors. Criticism must
be supportable by factual evidence.
The purpose and nature of such
criticism must be demonstrably in
the public interest and not serve
merely to harass or discredit. Fairness dictates that a person whose
actions are criticized must be given
the timely opportunity to explain
those actions or reply to the criticism, although practical consider-
ations may not permit concurrent
response.
5. The public interest is best served
when it hears all sides of an issue,
preferably in the words of each
side’s natural advocate, and it is
the editor’s ethical duty to present
all sides. This in no way abridges
a publication’s right to support one
side, but the publication’s bias must
be clearly indicated as such. Unsigned articles are assumed to be
the work of the editor.
6. Generally, more latitude in ethical matters may be tolerated in letters to the editor. However, the editor must judge whether printing a
given letter is in the interests of the
public and the organization that his
publication represents. Personal
abuse and unverifiable allegations
should never be tolerated.
7. If a journalist or editor is engaged
in any occupation which may affect
or seem to affect his objectivity, it
is unethical to withhold that fact
from the readers.
8. The public has the right to know
when it is being sold something;
commercial advertisements may
be presented in the form of news
stories, but the fact that they serve
commercial interests should be
made clear to the readers.
9. No article or other proprietary
work may be published without
the necessary proprietary consents.
This does not apply to unannotated
scores of chess games.
10. Chess Journalists shall not plagiarize the works of others.
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State Chess Association Web Sites
(Compiled by Pete Tamburro)
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California (N)
California (S)
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
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Kentucky
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Maine
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Michigan
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Ohio
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Wyoming
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www.alabamachess.com
None
www.arizonachess.org
www.arkansaschess.org
www.calchess.org
www.scchess.com
www.colorado-chess.com
www.ctchess.com
www.delawarechess.org
www.floridachess.org
www.georgiachess.org
www.hawaiichess.homestead.com
www.idahochessassociation.org
www.ilchess.org
www.indianachess.org
www.iowachess.org
None (scholastic site: www.ksca.us)
www.kcachess.org
www.louisianachess.org
http://mainechess.org
www.serve.com/mdchess
www.masschess.org
www.michess.org
www.mnchess.com
www.mcachess.org
www.mochess.org
http://montanachess.com/index1.htm (inactive)
http://nsca.nechess.com
www.nevadachess.org
www.nhchess.org
www.njscf.org
www.nmchess.org
www.nysca.net
www.ncchess.org
www.ndchess.org
http://go.owu.edu/~tagreen/oca/oca.htm
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THE CHESS JOURNALIST
Journalist of the
Year
Once again, it’s time to vote for
Chess Journalist of the Year, and for
the Gallery of Distinguished Chess
Journalists. For the first, nominees
are:
Dan Heisman
Jerry Hanken
Ira Lee Riddle
Harvey Lerman
Mig Greengard
For the second, we have:
Horace Ransom Bigelow (deceased)
Alex Dunne
Yasser Seirawan
Profiles of the nominees may be
seen at www.chessjournalism.org.
Please follow instructions for voting on the ballot insert included in
this issue.
Solutions to Chess
Quiz
(see page 16)
Vladimirov – Smyslov, USSR
Championship, 1961: A surprising mating net appears after 1.
Rg7, and there is no defense to the
threat of Bd7 mate.
Damjanovich – Hort, Kecskemet, 1964: In this seemingly
complex position, White wins by
removing the guard – 1. Rxh7+
Rxh7 2. Nf6 Rg7 (else 3. Qg6#) 3.
Nxd5 1–0
Gersman – Gusev, USSR,
1968: The pawn must promote,
but 1. ... Rxf3 removes the White
King’s last defender – 2. d8Q Qf2+
3. Kh1 Rb3 4. Qg8+ Kxg8 5.
Qxb3+ Kh7 0–1
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VLADIMIROV - SMYSLOV
USSR CHAMPIONSHIP, 1961
WHITE TO MOVE
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DAMJANOVICH - HORT
K ECSKEMET, 1964
WHITE TO MOVE
Solutions on page 14
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FIRST CLASS
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GERSMAN - GUSEV
USSR, 1968
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