Myself, Eric Schiller, and Branko Katic as Black drew in 38 moves with Toga II computer at Yahoo.com and observed by chessgames.com. This is a match between 3 chessgames.com players and computer machines. Next up will be Fritz 10, then Rybaka
Jan, 2007
Updated my chess links page, chess trivia, chess who's who, and added a few more chess articles. Wrote about a dozen more articles for India's Black and White chess magazine.
Updated my chess team list, thanks to Bob Basalla. Contributed material to Gary Gifford for the Hippo and Krazy Kat book. Added new chess links. Contributed several articles to Kerry Lawless and California chess history. Contributed to Chess Chronicle and Black & White magazine. Added several hundred chess miniatures. IM Jovan Petronic wrote a special program to view the games online. Thanks Jovan. Contributed a few more DB books. Added a few more bios at chessgames.com
Updated my chronology of chess for 2005 events. Now have over 2,000 miniature games 10 moves or less in pgn (txt) format. Added another file for 11-13 moves with over 650 games. Added new chess links. Contributed to Chess Chronicles and Black & White magazine (article on chess and marriage). Added a few more items to my chess trivia. Added a few more bios at chessgames.com. Played about 1,110 games online this year and over 23,000 games career total.
Levon Aronian won the 2005 FIDE World Chess Cup on Dec 17, beating Ruslan Ponomariov. The event was held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. He is now the FIDE Knockout World Champion. Updated my miniature games to include over 1,300 games that are 10 moves or less. Added a few more chess links. Finished playing over 1,000 games for the year at the Microsoft Games Zone.
Added more chess links such as Chandler's Corner by Geoff Chandler. Updated my movie list (great book on chess in the movies by Bob Basalla). Wrote an article for Black & White chess magazine on war and chess. Contributed to Chess Chronicle magazine on list of birthdays for November and December. Added a few more bios for www.chessgames.com. Chess friend Igor Ivanov died Nov 17. He used to stay at my house when he played chess in the San Francisco/Silicon Valley. Got a nice email from Gabor Szabo, Lazlo Szabo's son. Upated my chess trivia document. Updated my chess traps and miniatures chess games. Wrote another article for Chessville.
I was interviewed by Lawrence Totaro for the Internet and his chess page at http://www.ultimatechesscollecting.com/ (click Interviews, then Bill Wall and Part II). OK, I may have rambled too much and talked way to fast.
Added a few more bios and kibitzed or analysed a few games at www.chessgames.com. Added a few more links to my chess links page. Wrote another article for Black & White chess magazine on the history of Soviet chess. Entered another Internet thematic event (1.b4) run by Jens Kucharkowski.
October 14, 2005
The World Championship is over and the new World Champion is Topalov. He won 6, drew 8, lost none. He was followed by Anand, Svidler, Morozevich, Leko, Adams, Kasimdzhanov, and Polgar.
The World Championship is half way thru and it's Topalov, Svidler, Anand, Morozevich, Leko, Kasimdzhanov, Adams, and Polgar. Edward Winter's Chess Notes for October 6, 2005 (#3958) mentions my celebrity list that was used in Maurice Ashley's Chess for Success on pages 251-268. Then Winter writes "...and, of course, provides not a scrap of substantiation for any name put forward." Well, I have documented most of my sources on my web page, with over 800 entries. See my "famous people who play chess" at http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lab/7378/famous.htm.
The world championship starts in San Luis, Argentina on Sep 28, 2005. My prediction to win is Anand, followed by Topalov, Svidler, Leko, Adams, Morozevich, Kasimdzhanov, Judit Polgar.
I had an email and phone call from Ed Labate, who now sells his chess books on ebay. When I get out to California again, I need to autograph some of my books for him. They seem to be selling well. We discussed Robert Snyder and his run-ins with him when Snyder was in Southern California. Lets just say that Snyder was not well liked by Labate.
Biographer for chessgames.com. Added over a dozen new chess biographies to chessgames.com. Added more material to my chess trivia document. Wrote an article on chess and New Orleans after hurricane Katrina.
Contributed a few more chess articles to Chessville and Black & White magazine of India. Contributed a few more DB books. Contributed to some material for a book on Hippos and Krazy Kat openings for Gary Gifford. Susan Polgar broke several chess records for simultaneous games, etc on Aug 1-2, which I detailed in my chess trivia document. Contributed a few more 1.b4 games for Marek and Carel. Added a few more chess links. Provided birthdays of chess players for July for Abdul Karim and Chess Chronicle online magazine. Provided some chess information to Willy Icklicki, who is writing a chess encyclopedia. Added a few more of my chess games to ChessGames.com and kibitzed a dozen or so games there.
Added more chess links, more chess trivia, a few more famous people who play chess. Wrote an article on India chess trivia and an article on some more short games. Did a few more DB books.
Wall-Cherisse, Internet, 1.Nf3 f6 2.e4 Nc6 3.d4 a6 4.Nh4 e6 5.Qh5+ Ke7 6.Ng6+ Kd6?? 7.Qc5 mate 1-0
My article on chess in the movies is published in Chessville. I wrote an article on crime and chess for Black & White magazine. Added a few more names in my chess celebrity list.
Updated my list of movies with chess in it. Created a file of quick checkmates for John Barroso. Sent some tournament info to Willy Iclicki of FIDE. Working on new column for Black & White magazine.
Added some more info in my trivia file. This one from MSN Games.
Wall-Mango, 1.e4 g6 2.f4 Nf6 3.e5 Ne4 4.Bc4 Bg7 5.Nf3 f6 6.d3 Nc5 7.Nc3 fxe5 8.fxe5 d6 9.Ng5 Kd7 10.e6+ Kc6 11.Qf3+ Kb6 12.Nd5+ Ka5 13.d4 Na4 14.b4 mate 1-0
Another short one from the Internet.
Wall-Kris, 1.b4 a5 2.b5 a4 3.Bb2 c6 4.e4 cxb5 5.Bxb5 Qc7 6.Nf3 Nh6 7.Nc3 Ra5 8.Bxa4 Rh5 9.O-O Qd6 10.Qe2 Na6 11.Qc4 Nc7 12.Nb5 1-0
I played this nice miniature at Zone.com
Jack-Wall, 1.e4 b6 2.e5 Bb7 3.d4 d6 4.Nf3 Nd7 5.Bf4 e6 6.g3 dxe5 7.dxe5 Nxe5 8.Bg2 Nxf3+ 9.Bxf3 Qxd1+ 0-1
Another short game on the Internet.
Wall-Beck, 1.e4 e6 2.d4 c6 3.Nf3 d5 4.e5 Qb6 5.c3 Bd7 6.Bd3 c5 7.O-O cxd4 8.cxd4 h6 9.Nb3 Qb4 10.Bd2 Qxb2 11.Rb1 Qa3 12.Qc2 b6 13.Nb5 Bxb5 14.Qc8+ Ke7 15.Bxb5 f6 16.Qe8 mate 1-0
I played this short game at MSN games.
Wall-Spirit, 1.e4 Nc6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 a6 4.Bg5 h6 5.Bh4 g5 6.Bg3 f6 7.Bd3 f5 8.Qh5+ Kd7 9.e6+ Kxe6 10.Qg6+ Kd7 11.Bxf5+ e6 12.Qxe6+ 1-0
Sean Evans emailed me pointing out a good video on the Hydra chess computer. Very good video. Arlen Walker and Susan Polgar sent me some more names of celebrities who play chess, which I updated on my chess page. Susan celebrated her birthday at the Broadway hit "Little Women" and someone sent me some nice photos of the event. AJ Goldsby has noticed my website is getting less and less available due to exceeded data transfer limit for a free website. I may soon have to pay for it if I get more complaints.
Susan Polgar (happy birthday, today) wrote an article for Chessbase on chess in the mainstream world today and gave me credit for the list of celebrities, published in Chessville and edited by David Surratt. She emailed me and included a few more names, which I added to my list. Thanks to Howard Goldowsky for making sure I got acknowledged for my articles.
Updated my list of famous chess players (Chessville posted my celebrity article), my list of when masters learned how to play chess, my traps (short games), and some more additions to my trivia. Bruce Towell emailed me about the reference to Beethoven and chess. Beethoven was a good friend and business partner of Maelzel of the Turk automaton fame. Beethoven is mentioned as a chess player in The Even More Complete Chess Addict by Fox and James, whose reference in the Polish History of Chess. Ian Brooks emailed me to add Michael Flatley who created Lord of the Dance.
Wall-FavouredOne, Internet Zone, 1.b4 d5 2.Bb2 e6 3.a3 Nf6 4.f4 c5 5.bxc5 Bxc5 6.e3 O-O 7.Nf3 Nbd7 8.Bd3 h6 9.O-O Ne4 10.c4 Ndf6 11.Qc2 b6 12.Ne5 Bb7 13.f5 dxc4 14,Bxc4 exf5 15.Rxf5 Nd6 16.Rxf6 gxf6 17.Qg6+ Kh8 18.Qxh6+ Kg8 19.Ng6 1-0
A quickie from the Internet.
Crin-Wall, 1.d4 e5 2.e3 exd4 3.Qxd4 Nc6 4.Qe4+ Be7 5.Qg4 Bf6 6.Qe4+ Nge7 7.a3 d5 8.Qa4 O-O 9.c4 Bf5 10.cxd5 Qxd5 11.Nc3 Qd7 12.Qb5 Rfd8 13.Qxb7?? Bxc3+ and Black checkmates on the next move 0-1
Added a few more chess links and updated my list of famous people who play chess.
Another short one played at MSN Games.
Wall-Flip, 1.b3 d5 2.Bb2 c5 3.e3 Nc6 4.Nf3 Bg4 5.Be2 Qd6 6.O-O e5 7.Nc3 Nf6 8.Nb5 Qb8 9.c4 Bxf3 10.Bxf3 e4 11.Be2 a6 12.Bxf6 axb5 13.cxd5 Nb4 14.Bxb5+ Nc6 15.dxc6 gxf6 16.c7+ 1-0
I played this miniature.
Wall-Armour, 1.b4 b6 2.Bb2 c5 3.bxc5 dxc5 4.e3 b6 5.Bc4 Ba6 6.Bxf7+ Kxf7 7.Qf3+ Ke8 8.Qxa8 and White won 1-0
Wrote a few more articles for Chessville (Age of Learning Chess) and Black&White magazine.
Another common trap in the Philidor. Played on the Internet.
Wall-Skit, 1.e4 e5 2Nf3 d6 3.d4 Bg4 4.dxe5 Bxf3 5.Qxf3 dxe5 6.Bc4 Nf6 7.Qb3 Qd7 8.Qxb7 Qc6 9.Bb5 1-0
A quick one from The Zone.
Wall-Gene, 1.c4 d5 2.cxd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qc5 4.d3 e5 5.Bd2 Bd7 6.Rc1 Qb6 7.Nd5 Qxb2 8.Nxc7+ Kd8 9.Nxa8 Qxa2 10.Ra1 Qd5 11.Rxa7 Bc5 12.Ba5+ b6 13.Nxb6 Bxb6 14.Bxb6+ 1-0
Added new chess links, including Lawrence Totaro's Ultimate Chess Collecting site. Good multi-media site. Bobby Fischer has now been released by Japan and headed for Denmark, then Iceland.
Here is a miniature from the Internet
Wall-Trad, 1.c4 e5 2.g3 Nc6 3.Bg2 Qf6 4.Nf3 h6 5.Nc3 Nge7 6.Nb5 Kd8 7.d4 Nxd4 8.Nfxd4 exd4 9.Nxd4 a6 10.O-O Ng6 11.b3 Bc5 12.Bb2 Re8 13.Nc6+ 1-0
I played a short game at zone.msn.com
Wep-Wall, 1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.Qxd4 Nc6 4.Qa4 e5 5.c3 Bc5 6.Nf3 Nf6 7.Bg5 O-O 8.Bd3 Bxf2+ 9.Kxf2 Qb6+ 10.Be3 Ng4+ 11.Kg3 Qxe3 12.Kxg4 Qf4+ and White gets mated 0-1
Updated my list of famous people who play chess and movies with chess scenes.
Got an email from Grandmaster Maurice Ashley wishing to use my list of famous people who play chess. Of course he can use it. He is famous. Will try to update the list.
Here is a quick game I played for fun on the Internet.
Rose-Wall, 1.Nc3 c5 2.e3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.O-O e6 7.h3 Bh5 8.g4 Bg6 9.Ne5 Bd6 10.Nxg6 hxg6 11.Kg2 Nxg4 12.hxg4 Rh2+ 13.Kf3 Qh4 14.Ke2 Qxg4+ 15.Kd3 c4 mate 0-1
I made a few more contributions for the DBook, GambitChess project. I think I have done over 60 books for Laderchi now.
Here is a quick one from Internet play before I announce my retirement from chess. From now on, I will only play for fun.
Wall-Ajay, 1.d4 f5 2.e4 Nf6 3.exf5 c6 4.Bc4 Qa5+ 5.Nc3 Qxf5 6.Nf3 d5 7.Bd3 Qg4 8.O-O Bf5 9.h3 Qg6 10.Ne5 Qh5 11.Qxh5+ Nxh5 12.Bxf5 1-0
Tim Tobiason of Toby Chess emails me about my problem with reading the Ultimate Chess DVD, and offers to replace it with a complete set of CDs. I was able to copy the files I had trouble opening on the DVD after opening them up on a Mac with Acrobat, saving them on desktop, then transfering it to a PC on the network and copying them on a few CDs. I like the idea of chess books in PDF format and collected together on DVD. Happy Birthday Bobby Fischer.
Wrote a few more chess columns for Black&White chess magazine of India.
Added 4 more database e-books to GambitChess. Played another quick one at the Zone.
Wall-Miestro, 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Bg4 4.Ne5 Bh5 5.Qb3 Qb6 6.Qh3 Bg6 7.Qc8+ and Black resigned 1-0
March 5, 2005
Here is a short King's Gambit I played on the Internet.
Wall-Seahawk, 1 e4 e5 2.f4 d6 3.Bc4 Nh6 4.d4 f6 5.fxe5 dxe5 6.Bxh6 gxh6 7.Qh5+ Ke7 8.dxe5 Qd4 9.Qf7+ Kd8 10.Qxf6+ Be7 11.Qxh8+ Kd7 12.e6+ 1-0
March 4, 2005
rec.games.chess.misc talks about chess anecdotes and stories of the Bill Wall variety.
Feb 28, 2005
Leopold in rec.games.chess.misc lists my deaths of chess players list.
Feb 27, 2005
I played an interesting Sicilian at zone.msn.com
Grizzly-Wall, 1.e4 c5 2.c3 d5 3.exd5 Qxd5 4.d4 Nc6 5.Nf3 e5 6.Be3 e4 7.Nfd2 cxd4 8.Bc4 Qd8 9.cxd4 Nf6 10.O-O Bd6 11.d5 Ne5 12.Bg5 O-O 13.Bxf6 Qxf6 14.Bb5 Ng4 15.Nxe4 Bxh2+ 16.Kh1 Qh4 0-1
Feb 26, 2005
Finished another e-book for the DB collection for Giorgio Laderchi and GambitChess. I played this nice trap on the Internet.
Redrock-Wall, 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Nf3 c5 5.g3 cxd4 6.Nxd4 Ne4 7.Qd3 Qa5 8.Nb3 Nxc3 9.Nxa5 Ne4+ 10.Kd1?? Nxf2+ 11.Kc2 Nxd3 12.exd3 Bxa5 0-1
Here is a short game from the Gaming Zone.
Phat-Wall, 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.c5 d6 4.b4 Bg7 5.a4 Nd5 6.Bd2 dxc5 7.bxc5 Bxd4 8.Ra3 Bxc5 9.Rd3 Bf5 10.Bc3 Bxd3 11.Bxh8 Bxb1 12.Qxb1 Bb4+ 0-1
Got the January 2005 issue of Black & White from India. I have an article in there called The Last Milestone. It is about the deaths of famous chess players. Also, over a dozen chess miniatures. Interesting stories of chess in Afghanistan and turmoil in the India Chess Federation.
A quickie at the Microsoft Internet Gaming Zone.
Harry-Wall, 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5 3.Nc3 fxe4 4.Nxe4 Nc6 5.d4 exd4 6.Nxd4 Qe7 7.Nxc6? Qxe4+ 8.Qe2 Qxe2+ 9.Bxe2 dxc6 10.Bf4 Bd6 11.Be3 Be6 12.O-O Ne7 and Black wins 0-1
Here is a quick game played on the Zone.
TomD-Wall, 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 Nc6 3.Bc4 g6 4.Qf3 Nf6 5.c3 Bc5 6.d3 h6 7.b4 Nxb4 8.cxb4 Bd4 9.Nc3 Bxc3+ 0-1
I play a nice, short Center Counter on the Microsoft Gaming Zone at zone.msn.com. My zone rating (ajeeb) is 2270 with 244 wins, 12 losses, and 4 draws. I tell my opponents I am Brian Wall. Brian Wall tells his opponents he is Bill Wall. Don't tell Tim Wall.
Wall-Brock, 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.d4 Nxd5 4.Bc4 Nb6 5.Bd3 e6 6.c3 Be7 7.Nf3 O-O 8.O-O c5 9.dxc5 Bxc5 10.Ng5 h6 11.Bh7+ Kh8 12.Nxf7+ 1-0
I finish another DB book for Giorgio Laderchi. I think it is my 55th book for him. The books are listed at http://www.gambitchess.com/index2.htm
I finish three chess articles for Chessville at http://www.chessville.com and they appear on Feb 20. They are on Addicted to Chess, Quick French Lessons, and Strange but True. Their editor is Jens Madsen and assistant is David Surratt
Added several new chess links to my chess link page.
Watched the movie Ray, which had a chess scene from Ray Charles's real life. The movie is about a blind musician who is a great singer and song writer hooked on heroin. He is addicted to heroin and wants to go cold turkey. His doctor teaches him chess. He is cured of heroin, but in now addicted to chess. For the next 40 years he does not create a single new song because he is now addicted to chess and has lost his creativity with music. The only violent scene in the movie is when the doctor beats him in a chess game. Ray Charles goes crazy, knocks the peg chess pieces from the table, throws the table and would have killed the doctor if he could see him (the doctor sneaked out of the room). To make it fair, the doctor should have played blindfold chess.
My friend Tom Katsampes posts our 75 chess games on his internet site. We probably played dozens more in San Antonio in the mid 1990s.
Tim Krabbe's open chess diary reports that the Grand Ayatollah ali as-Sistani of Iraq has forbidden chess and it is absolutely unlawful (but cricket, oral sex, and anal sex is OK with the Ayatollah). Chessbase news is also reporting it. My friend Sean Evans from Canada asks, do the U.S. troops know that chess is forbidden in Iraq? A lot of soldiers are playing chess when there is nothing to do in Iraq (hurry up and wait). That's what I did was play chess during my 4 years overseas in Southeast Asia, Okinawa, Guam during the Vietnam War. When there was nothing to do I played chess at the USO, on the flightline, in the chow hall, aboard aircraft, in the rec center, in the dorms. We worked 12 hours a day and had one day off a week. But chess was not banned (just don't let the Colonels and Generals see you playing chess).
I get a letter from Randy Mont-Reynaud (Jordy's mom) that Jordy is getting back into chess. Jordy and Vinay Bhat were America's two youngest chess masters that I coached when I was President of the Palo Alto Chess Club in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Wrote two more chess articles for Black & White magazine in India. I have been contributing monthly chess articles to them for almost a year now on chess trivia and short games. The publisher is Shilpa Mehraa The editor-in-chief is Suman Mehra. The managing editor is Junaid Ahmad.
I finish 2 DB books (books by Wenman) for Giorgio Laderchi.
Got my 4th volume of Kasparov's On My Great Predecessors and reading through that. All four books are excellent.
I finish my second Spence book for DB books (Giorgio Laderchi). Spence's books have more errors in his books than I have ever seen in a chess book. Moves are missing, wrong, out of place. etc.
I contributed some chess remarks about Bobby Fischer for Lawrence Totaro at http://www.msnusers.com/baysholis . I play a King's Gambit miniature on the Gaming Zone.
Wall-Guest691, 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.h4 Bh6 5.hxg5 Bxg5 6.Bc4 Qe7 7.Nc3 Bf6 8.d4 d6 9.Bxf4 Bg4 10.Qd3 Bxf3 11.gxf3 c6 12.O-O-O b5 13.Nxb5 cxb5 14.Bd5 1-0
I draw my second game in the Carel CF-01 Correspondence tournament.
Benussi-Wall, 1.b4 e5 2.Bb2 Bxb4 3.Bxe5 Nf6 4.Nf3 Be7 5.e3 d5 6.Be2 c5 7.O-O Nc6 8.d4 O-O 9.Bxf6 Bxf6 10.c3 b6 11.Qd2 Bf5 12.Bd3 Qd7 13.Qc2 Bg6 14.Nbd2 Rac8 15.dxc5 bxc5 16.Bxg6 fxg6 17.e4 Ne5 18.Rad1 dxe4 19.Nxe5 Bxe5 20.Qxe4 Qf5 21.Qc4+ Qf7 22.Qxf7+ Rxf7 23.Nc4 Bc7 24.g3 Rf3 1/2-1/2
I get an email from Raphael of the Chess House suggesting that I talk to the DVD developer or send me a replacement DVD. On March 9th, The developer, Tim Tobiason emails back to me to let me know how the DVD was created and offered to replace my DVD with a set of CDs.
I get The Ultimate Chess DVD from The Chess House. Some files can't be read depending on howq the sectors were burned.
I contribute some recent 1.b4 games to Marek at http://www.algonet.se/~marek/ and to Carel. I draw my first game in the Carel CF-01 Correspondence tournament.
Nemec-Wall, 1.b4 c6 2.Bb2 a5 3.b5 cxb5 4.e4 b4 5.a3 bxa3 6.Nxa3 Nc6 7.Bc4 e5 8.Nf3 d6 9.c3 Bg4 10.h3 Bh5 11.Qb3 Qd7 12.g4 Bg6 13.d3 Nf6 14.h4 a4 15.Qb6 d5 16.Nb5 Rc8 17.exd5 Nxd5 18.Bxd5 Qxd5 19.Qxb7 Qd7 20.Qxd7+ Kxd7 21.Rxa4 Bxd3 22.Na7 Re8 23.Bd2 e4 24.Nxc6 Kxc6 25.Nd4+ Kb7 26.Ba3 Bxa3 27.Rxa3 Ra8 28.Rxa8 Rxa8 1/2-1/2
I play a short King's Gambit on the Gaming Zone.
Wall-Rearer, 1.e4 e5 2.f4 Be7 3.Nf3 d6 4.Bc4 f6 5.d4 Nc6 6.O-O exf4 7.Bxf4 b6 8.Nc3 Bg4 9.Qd2 Bxf3 10.Rxf3 Nh6 11.Bb5 Qd7 12.Bxh6 gxh6 13.d5 1-0
Edward Winter in Chess Notes 3567 quotes "a typical Internet item by Bill Wall." This is about the Frydmans which I have corrected in my trivia page at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/trivia5.htm .
David Hayes links my chess trivia document to his Logical Chess site at http://www.logicalchess.com .
I play a short game on the Zone.
Raman-Wall, 1.e4 e5 2.f4 c5 3.Nf3 d5 4.d4 exd4 5.Nxd4 dxe4 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Be2 O-O 8.O-O Nd5 9.Qd2 Nxe3 10.Qxe3 Bxd4 0-1
My friend Arnold Denker died in Fort Lauderdale at the age of 90. I met him at one of the Space Coast Opens and had breakfast with him. He forgot his chess clock, so I let him borrow mine. I left the tournament and came back later to find Denker analyzing a game. I asked him where my chess clock was. He said he didn't know. He forgot where he put it. It wasn't at his table. I thought I had my chess clock ripped off. Later, the tournament director gave me my chess clock. Denker had given it to the tournament director to give to me since he could not find me. But Denker forgot to tell me this. So much for the memory of a grandmaster.
My first game of the year. Game played on the Microsoft Gaming Zone.
Tank-Wall, 1.e4 Nf6 2.Qf3 e6 3.d4 d5 4.e5 Ne4 5.c3 c5 6.Nd2 Ng5 7.Qg4 cxd4 8.c4 Nc6 9.cxd5 exd5 10.Qh4 Be7 11.Bb5 Nf3+ 0-1
I start my Carel CF-01 chess tournament (1.b4 openings) at http://www.b2-b4.com/
I get an email from Frank Monthakhab's daughter. He died in 1988 and he was a good friend of mine from North Carolina in the 1970s. We played dozens of chess games together in tournaments and matches.
I win a game from an IECC Swiss event (Swiss 483.2.05).
Clews-Wall, 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d3 Nc6 4.g3 Nf6 5.Bg2 Bg4 6.Nbd2 Qc8 7.h3 Bd7 8.O-O Bxh3 9.Qe1 g6 10.Nc4 Bg7 11.c3 b5 12.Ne3 O-O 13.Nd5 Nxd5 14.exd5 Ne5 15.Nxe5 dxe5 16.f4 Bxg2 17.Kxg2 Qb7 18.c4 e6 19.Qe4 exd5 0-1
Chessville does a nice review of my web page.
IM John Donaldson helps me in my research on Bobby Fischer's tournament and match record, and his first USCF ratings. Updated my web site to reflect that.
Some discussion on the net that I am not a real person at http://www.chessgames.com and that it is a group of 11 men posing and dressing as Bill Wall. It is actually 9 men and 2 ladies posing and dressing as Bill Wall. We all live by the ocean and are known as Ocean's Spray 11. Our group consists of wall, crafty, sorcery, browneyes, batgirl, Mister Rogers, Master Bates, sloan, Harvey Wallbanger, Count Leopold, and Wlod. What would you rather believe? Is there really a Bill Wall or really an Edward Winter? Maybe Bill Wall is really Edward Winter or vice versa. Me being a real, existing person was discussed in rec.games.chess.misc back in 2000. Come on guys, I am real. I got a brick with my name on it in front of the US Chess Hall of Fame (or was that Chess Wall of Fame).
My house gets a direct hit by not one, but two hurricanes in Palm Bay, Florida. Lost a roof, garage ceiling collapsed on my car, some rooms flooded, but only chess damage was one of my chess sets on display in my living room got soaked when water came in from the roof and ceiling. My pictures of hurricane damage appears in several issues of Florida Today newspaper.
Sarah's Chess Journal at http://www.batgirl.atspace.com has a brief Tribute to Bill Wall. She defended my from those Edward Winter attacks (my 10-watt searchlight on the web) in her March 6, 2004 blog.
Reference: Kings, Commoners and Knaves by Edward Winter, published by Russell Enterprises, 1999, page 286, 4th paragraph, 1st sentence, beginning with the 21st word.
