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Playing with Matches
27.06.2002
– Sometimes you need a little historical perspective to better appreciate current
events. In his latest
column Mig takes us on a brief tour of the world championship, back
to the days before the Megamodern School. Plus, the French chess federation
comes out of hibernation and Fritz plays with human assistance in Spain.
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A straw to clutch onto
27.06.2002
– The Indian superstar Vishy Anand has been left out of the Unity
Agreement signed in Prague early last month. Now there is now a ray of hope
for the disappointed Indian chess community. Read about this and other topics
in the latest report by our chess correspondent V. Krishnaswamy in his India
Chess Diary.
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The secrets of Capablanca
27.06.2002
– The subject of Dorian Rogozenko's training lesson tonight (Thursday, 19:00 GMT, 21.00 CET, 3 p.m. NY) is José Raul Capablanca. The Cuban world champion played miraculously easy-looking chess. With the help of several games and fragments, Rogozenko will explain Capablanca's art of chess.
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Spend an hour with Alexandra Kosteniuk
25.06.2002
– Sound appealing? On ChessBase Magazine 88 you get over 2000 games, 537 of them annotated by top experts. There are openings, middlegame and strategic lessons, tactical puzzles and much more. Also a multimedia report containing over an hour of video footage with the women's vice champion of the world – and a peek into her family album. Can you afford to miss it? Find out all about it here.
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Kramnik wins fifth Advance Chess in León
23.06.2002
– This was judgement day for Vishy Anand. Trailing by one loss against Vladimir
Kramnik, he had two final games to catch up. But Kramnik, who was feeling more
and more comfortable with computer-assisted play, was able to draw in both
games. Read all about it in our our
final report on the Advanced Chess match in León.
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Of Elephants and Men
22.06.2002
– Who will win the Advanced Chess match in León? "Aahnaand!"
said an elephant on the streets of the city. After a long, noisy night, and
a somber awakening the world's number two and three have now resumed their computer-assisted
battle. A sensation: Kramnik won game one, the second ended in a draw. Read
all about it in our report
on day two.
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Illyumzhinov has other things on his mind
21.06.2002
– The president of the French Chess Federation, Jean-Claude Loubatière (right) has proposed an alternative direction to the present leadership of FIDE. "The President [Kirsan Ilyumzhinov] visibly has his mind on other things than Chess," writes Loubatière in the following
press release...
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Let the games begin
21.06.2002
– Brazil beat England, Germany squeezed through against the US, and after that
now Anand and Kramnik battled it out to a goalless draw. Their first two games
were interesting, but, as one commentator speculated, "perhaps they have
too much respect for each other." You will find a full report on day one
here.
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Déjà vu all over again
21.06.2002
– On Thursday, for the fifth time, an Advanced Chess match is scheduled to be
held in León, Spain. This time it is Anand vs Kramnik, with both players
being assisted by computers during the game. With some difficulties the ChessBase
team has arrived in León, and preparations are well under way. More
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Grandmasters
19.06.2002
– On the first days of June there was a special meeting of Grandmasters to discuss issues that impact the lives of professional chess players – mainly subjects that are of concern to the top 100 players in the world. American GM Yasser Seirawan, who attended all the sessions, sent us a
detailed report.
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Chess night in Hamburg
15.06.2002
– It was a spectacular event, pitting the very successful German national
team against visitors of the Playchess
server. Sixteen had qualified in tournaments, and took on the GMs in six
rounds at 7 minutes per side per game. The result was 24:6 for the national team –
quite victory, since the entire presidential board of the
German Chess Federation had turned up to watch.
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Kramnik vs Deep Fritz starts October 2nd 2002
14.06.2002
– Originally scheduled for October 2001 the match between the Classical Chess World Champion Vladimir Kramnik and the the world's top-rated chess programm Deep Fritz had to be postponed due to the events of September 11. The match will now start on October 2nd 2002 in the Gulf state of Bahrain. This was announced by the Einstein Group in London today. You will find full details in this
press release.
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