rayannina

I'm kind of new to hockey, and just beginning to learn about its history. I was just reading about Paul Loicq, who was president of the IIHF for 20 years (when he wasn't assisting the Belgian Resistance during WWII), and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1916. All the bios of him I can find on the 'Net says that he played on the Belgian national team from 1918 to 1926, before becoming a referee and executive ... but none say what position(s) he played. Just curious - was he a scoring forward? A defenseman? A goalie? Anyone know?

I'm thinking about getting an Amazon Kindle. I already have a lot of e-books, but most of them are in .pdf or .doc/.docx formats. Will these books work on a Kindle? Will I need to get some sort of plug-in to make them work? Or am I just out of luck Kindle-wise, and need to look for a different e-reader that can cope with them?

Thanks.

I'm part of an all-time fantasy league, and we'd like to add some of the great Japanese stars to our pool of draftable players. Obviously, we would have to translate those players' statistics into equivalents of what they would have done in the American major leagues. The problem I'm having is finding numbers for all-time Japanese greats -- Sadaharu Oh, Shigeo Nagashima, Kazuhisa Inao and the like. I tried Japanesebaseball.com, but their player section is currently down for renovation.

Does anyone know where on the web I could find comprehensive stats for Japanese baseball stars of the past and present?

I've been playing chess a little here, a little there since I was a kid (I'm 39 now), basically just well enough to get beaten by good players, and now I'm teaching my daughter how to play. I have this opening I like to use -- simple, pins the opposing queen's pawn in place, keeps the opposing king under threat -- but I can't find what the name of it is (if any). I thought it was a Ruy Lopez, but I looked up the Ruy Lopez online and found that I was wrong.

Here's the opening (white):

1. P-K4

2. QKt-QB3 (so far, Vienna Game)

3. KB-QKt5

It works the same way in black (if whoever's playing white lets you get away with it). My question is, is there a special name for this series of moves? Or is it just one of the gazillion variations on the Vienna Game? I tried looking it up on ChessOps' online guide, and it wouldn't even let me make the KB-QKt5 move, let alone tell me what it was called. Any ideas?

Thanks.