Trump Claims US Has No Grandmasters!

We have over 90. Such an ignorant fool is he......
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/oct/14/donald-trump/donald-trump-wrongly-maligns-us-chess-prowess/

Lyndonville Quick Tournament in the News

The tournament at The Grindstone Cafe was in today's Caledonian-Record Newspaper.

Neo-Soviet Bagman Trying to Get FIDE President Into the US Despite Treasury Dept. Sanctions

Putin friend Edward Lozansky is fulminating about having Kirsan admitted to the US in November as a special exception to the Dept. of the Treasury sanctions that bar him from travel to the US.
http://us-russia.org/4366-edward-lozansky-lets-play-chess-instead-of-politics.html

Lozansky has been described as a "Neo-Soviet Bagman,"
https://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2007/05/24/editorial-edward-lozansky-neo-soviet-bagman/

and a "Putin bootlicker."
https://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2007/05/24/editorial-edward-lozansky-neo-soviet-bagman/

Stay tuned..........November is nearly here.

Kasparov on Trump Looking Like Putin

Trump's "President Day 1" checklist: 1 Jail opponent. 2 Media crackdown. 3 Support Assad. Coincidentally, that was also Putin's checklist.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/garry-kasparov-donald-trump_us_57fb25e3e4b068ecb5dfcad6?section=&

Iran Hijab Protest Grows Worldwide

Chessbase online reviews the press coverage world-wide.
http://en.chessbase.com/post/naz-paikidze-and-the-hijab-protest-in-chess

As of this writing, Paikdze's change.org petition has garnered over 9,000 supporters. Fallout has even been felt by the co-chair of the FIDE Women's Commission, GM Susan Polgar.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/06/hijabs-row-grandmaster-forced-to-block-1000-chess-trolls-on-twit/

Susan Polgar Tries and Fails to Silence US Women's Champion Paikdze in Iran Hijab Dispute

Susan Polgar, who chairs the women’s committee of the international chess governing body has tried to silence Paikidze by telling her to keep her opinions off Twitter and to take it up with FIDE and WOM. 

Paikdze responded by saying, “I already did. Thanks to Twitter this issue got a lot of attention as well.” 

“Not the right position to insult me and members of @WOMChess when we are trying to help you,” Polgar shot back. 

“Nothing of what I said was a personal insult/attack to anyone but FIDE's decision,” the young chess champion responded, showing no fear. 

http://www.therebel.media/_i_will_not_wear_a_hijab_and_support_women_s_oppression_reigning_us_chess_champion_boycotts_world_championship_in_iran

Fifteen Chess Players Contest the Lyndonville Quick Tournament on October 2nd

Photos of the Lyndonville Quick Tournament last Sunday. Up and coming overall winner Ian Dudley is pictured with promoter Alex Relyea followed by Vermont's own National Master David Carter who finished a half point behind in second place. Thank you to all who played and helped make this a success.

Overall Winner Ian Dudley

In Second Place a half point behind was Vermont's only National Master David Carter

Reminder--Lyndonville Quick Tournament Today

At the Grindstone Cafe
102 Depot Street
Lyndonville, VT

First round is at 10AM
6rd Swiss, G-25d3

Data Mining Reveals the Crucial Factors That Determine When People Make Blunders

This study focuses on chess. The fascinating discovery is that in chess there are certain "skill anomalous positions" where a player ratee 1800+ is more likely to make a blunder than a player rated 1200 to 1800.

Here are the positions taken from the research. In the first three, the GM is less likely to make a blunder that players rated lower than the GM going down to 1200 elo. The final three are the skill anomalous positions in which GM made blunders more frequently than lower elo rated opponents. 8/1k6/8/1PK5/8/8/8/8−0 2k5/8/1K6/2P5/8/8/8/8−1 1k6/8/K7/1P6/8/8/8/8−1 GMs blunder more in these 2k5/8/1P6/2K5/8/8/8/8−1 1k6/8/2P5/1K6/8/8/8/8−1 7k/8/6P1/6K1/8/8/8/8−1 Have fun.

The scholarly article can be found at this link.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.04956v1.pdf