Los Angeles Open Chess Tournament

Date: 27 May 2008 10:50:08
From:
Subject: Los Angeles Open Chess Tournament

Chess Players Rule!

You make excellent executive decisions, relish complexity, and
foresee what is most crucial and relevant.
We, the devoted, daring, and driven members of the Exposition
Park Chess Club [http://chess.expoparkla.com/] consider you a kindred
spirit. We warmly invite your participation in our chess club.
This coming first Sunday of the month, June 1st, 2008, will be
the occasion of an open, free, unrated, three-round chess tournament.
Cash prizes will *NOT* be awarded, but the names of the winners will
be published in the Los Angeles area print media, posted
transnationally in this major, chess-related Usenet newsgroup
[rec.games.chess.misc], as well as celebrated worldwide on our chess
club's Web site. Indeed, early registration (at least 48 hours in
advance!) for the tournament is easiest by visiting our chess club's
Web site; Follow the link "online tournament signup".
Players of all skill levels, from beginner to rated Master, are
invited to compete in this tournament. Tournament registration, on the
day of the tournament, begins at 1:00 PM and ends promptly at 1:30 PM.
The tournament will take place at the Exposition Park Library
[http://www.lapl.org/branches/06.html], located in the University of
Southern California vicinity [http://www.lapl.org/branches/maps/06-
m.html].
The Library's address and contact information is:

Exposition Park Regional Library
3665 S Vermont Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90007
Tel: 323 732 0169
Fax: 213 612 0540

The Library, with its ample lot parking, opens on Sunday at 1:00
PM, the same time at which in-person tournament registration begins.
Competitors should arrive early so that no delays occur.
By playing in this tournament you will pursue the glorious,
ascend to greatness, found a country, define a new triumph, elect
Ralph Nader as President - well, maybe not the Nader/President thing.
Let nothing deter you! Come to this Sunday's tournament for a
most challenging time of chess playing!

P.S.: Because of the large attendance that we've had at various of our
previous tournaments, it is strongly advised that if you want to be
certain of being able to play, you should BRING YOUR OWN CHESS SET,
BOARD, AND CLOCK!!

Date: 29 May 2008 00:35:57
From: Rob Lingelbach
Subject: Re: Los Angeles Open Chess Tournament

[email protected] wrote:
> Chess Players Rule!
>
> You make excellent executive decisions, relish complexity, and
> foresee what is most crucial and relevant.
> We, the devoted, daring, and driven members of the Exposition
> Park Chess Club [http://chess.expoparkla.com/] consider you a kindred
> spirit. We warmly invite your participation in our chess club.

that's quite interesting, indeed, as I would also consider myself a
kindred spirit, though it has been many years since I played chess.

However, I don't believe chess players rule, or we would be in quite a
different world than that which we are in. And, I also don't think I
make excellent executive decisions, relish complexity, nor foresee what
is most crucial and relevant. If I did, I would be one of those whom I
consider _without_much_hope_and_waiting_for_reading_recommendations_.

with that in mind, I would like to point you toward the works of
Chekhov, Tolstoi, Nabo
> This coming first Sunday of the month, June 1st, 2008, will be
> the occasion of an open, free, unrated, three-round chess tournament.
> Cash prizes will *NOT* be awarded, but the names of the winners will
> be published in the Los Angeles area print media, posted
> transnationally in this major, chess-related Usenet newsgroup
> [rec.games.chess.misc], as well as celebrated worldwide on our chess
> club's Web site. Indeed, early registration (at least 48 hours in
> advance!) for the tournament is easiest by visiting our chess club's
> Web site; Follow the link "online tournament signup".
> Players of all skill levels, from beginner to rated Master, are
> invited to compete in this tournament. Tournament registration, on the
> day of the tournament, begins at 1:00 PM and ends promptly at 1:30 PM.
> The tournament will take place at the Exposition Park Library
> [http://www.lapl.org/branches/06.html], located in the University of
> Southern California vicinity [http://www.lapl.org/branches/maps/06-
> m.html].
> The Library's address and contact information is:
>
> Exposition Park Regional Library
> 3665 S Vermont Avenue
> Los Angeles, California 90007
> Tel: 323 732 0169
> Fax: 213 612 0540
>
> The Library, with its ample lot parking, opens on Sunday at 1:00
> PM, the same time at which in-person tournament registration begins.
> Competitors should arrive early so that no delays occur.
> By playing in this tournament you will pursue the glorious,
> ascend to greatness, found a country, define a new triumph, elect
> Ralph Nader as President - well, maybe not the Nader/President thing.
> Let nothing deter you! Come to this Sunday's tournament for a
> most challenging time of chess playing!
>
> P.S.: Because of the large attendance that we've had at various of our
> previous tournaments, it is strongly advised that if you want to be
> certain of being able to play, you should BRING YOUR OWN CHESS SET,
> BOARD, AND CLOCK!!
>
>

Date: 28 May 2008 23:25:00
From: Rob Lingelbach
Subject: Re: Los Angeles Open Chess Tournament

Date: 29 May 2008 18:38:16
From: nobody
Subject: Re: Los Angeles Open Chess Tournament

Rob Lingelbach wrote:
..

> with that in mind, I would like to point you toward the works of
> Chekhov, Tolstoi, Nabokov, Lermontov, Gogol.

Why's that Bob? (I've read all these dudes, excepting Lermontov - my
Russian phase, y'know?)..