Right now I'm watching the local news. Chess master and author of "Chess for Juniors," Robert Snyder is talking about his conviction . What creeps me out the most was that my first chess book was "Chess for Juniors." 

My first book was Hey you, sit in my lap and play Chess, but it was by Capablanca so it's okay.

Lemmie guess... the first chapter of "Chess for Juniors" dealt with "saccing the bishop?" Chapter 2 "Who needs a queen, when you have pawns?" Chapter 3 "Lonely (K)nights?"

Followed of course by his best seller "Pushing Wood: A Guide for Juniors."

In all seriousness, that is sick stuff, and this guys should only be playing one kind of chess... correspondence chess. From prison. With a big, mean, cellmate.

ok, so Im guessing my book "handling bad bishops" is not going to get great reviews?

I don't discount your post wyrmslayer ... but which "local news" - stuff like this needs fact checking

easy mate

hahahahahahahahaha

O_o

Well that just totaled the debate on chess and intelligence. 

Just goes to show...don't have to be intelligent to play chess...and even if you are intelligent, it says nothing about your morality (how good or bad you are)...with great gift...comes great responsibility.

I thought it was "with great power comes great responsibility"... but the point you made is very clear.

Yeah this is in Colorado which is where I'm from. And actually, before I saw this on the news, I heard about his conviction. I totally agree with rookandladder. 

And Benkobaby here is an article from the Huffingtonpost which you might find informative. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/30/robert-snyder-fort-collin_n_519131.html

thanks for posting .... I think

Benko, this is one of the reasons Linksspringer and I prefer to call 2 b3 against the Sicilian the Czerniak instead of the Snyder Variation :-(

He's one of the few people USCF blackballed.  The guy has a long history of "working with youth groups," but his transgressions remained unreported for years.

They caught him in Belize running a chess program for kids . . .

MM, no kidding mate.