Summer Lecture Series Announced

Chess Indeed's man-on-the-street Sir Robin of the Redwoods informs us that the Summer Lecture Series has finally been announced at the Snails Corners Chess Club in exotic Sheboygan, Wisconsin--and it looks like a doozy of a lineup!

Alvin Becker, renowned meteorologist and a strong "weak expert," will be discussing the following topics for anyone with enough stamina to sit still for four hours at a stretch:



International Master Captain Caveman will be
giving a simul during the lectures, making it even
harder for Becker to hold his audience's attention.



1. World championship games Alekhine obviously played while drunk

2. Bobby Fischer's 60 Memorable Anti-Semitic Rants

3. How to Avoid Fool's Mate--even if you're a fool



4. The ten shortest chessplayers of all time (surprisingly, the midget inside "the Turk" is only #3)



5. How to hypnotize your opponents using a large, hand-cranked spiral-generating device



6. A move-by-move analysis of Steinitz-God, Baden-Baden 1898

7. Chess is different from Checkers--here's how

8. Is Ivanchuk insane? A peek into the mind of a bewildered man

9. Fire on board: how to unobtrusively ignite a chessboard when you're losing

10. A look at the Ostrich Counter-Defense (1...Nh6 2...Ng8!?)



As usual, I will have a front-row seat for these lectures (by which I mean I'll be safe in my plush Boston hovel, one ear cocked vaguely toward Sheboygan as the other thrills to the dulcet crooning of Lionel Richie).