You know... I've seen solicitations for correspondece chess with prisoners. I've thought about it but there are, I think, legitimate concerns. Does anyone have any experience with this?
Prison Chess
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Feb 24, 2010
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not likely skipgugg, they are onto the "claude bloodgood method of becoming a GM"
you'd probly be walking differently, mate - just a thought 
i did 9 years in the pen.
I has never got caught - cos I is a chess-player an' I is used to thinkin' ahead 
Um... I changed my mind.
Hope this guy enjoys prison chess. Watch your backrank, mate.
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El_Gremio wrote:
i did 9 years in the pen.
Seriously? Question: Is it incredibly noisy + smelly all the time?
(I ask because I watched "The Shawshank Redemption" again the other night and at one point after lights out, the guards tell everyone to quiet down - and they did. I was thinking: yeah, right.)
Apr 5, 2010
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tomjoad wrote: (I ask because I watched "The Shawshank Redemption" again the other night and at one point after lights out, the guards tell everyone to quiet down - and they did. I was thinking: yeah, right.)
Of course, the Shawshank inmates had pretty good incentive to listen to their guards, since the guards could kill them without any repercussions . . . due process didn't seem to be a very high priority. 
Cystem_Phailure wrote:
Of course, the Shawshank inmates had pretty good incentive to listen to their guards, since the guards could kill them without any repercussions . . . due process didn't seem to be a very high priority.
Oh I know, (and it's only a movie), but it got me wondering just how noisy and chaotic an environment the average prision is.
Apr 5, 2010
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Claude Bloodgood was controversially ranked second in the world from prison.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Bloodgood
from wikipedia.com:
Bloodgood organized chess games within Powhatan Prison, which were by necessity with fellow inmates.[2] Many of these inmates were taught the game by Bloodgood, and thus began as unrated and inexperienced players. Bloodgood obtained USCF memberships for them. Some accused Bloodgood, with his intimate knowledge of the rating system, of rigging their ratings. The accusation was that he arranged for new prisoners to play rated games against other prisoners, who would deliberately lose, thus giving the new inmate an inflated USCF rating. Bloodgood, it is further alleged, then played rated games against the new highly-rated prisoner, and each time he won, gained a few more rating points. This continued for several years, and by 1996 his rating rose to 2702, making the 59-year-old Bloodgood the second-highest rated player in the nation.
Apr 5, 2010
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Sounds like a clever fellow. You'd expect he would have put a little more thought into his initial murder that got him into the pen!
If ever I am sentenced to a 10 year prison term (hopefully never),I am certain I could walk out as a GM after time served. Just a thought.