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MTel R6: Topalov and Cheparinov win, Ivanchuk draws
15.05.2008
– The shocker of round six: Vassily Ivanchuk only drew his game against Teimour Radjabov, the first time he has dropped half a point in this tournament. His performance has dropped to a dismal 3155. Both Bulgarians, Cheparinov and Topalov, won their games and are in second and third place. A prominent visitor was Boris Spassky, who commentated for the spectators.
Full pictorial report.
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GM Nigel's Radio Revs – here to answer you questions
14.05.2008
– Once a week grandmaster Nigel Davies gives live online training on the Playchess server, from 11 p.m. to 12 a.m. UK time.
That means it starts at midnight
CEST, 6 p.m. New York or 08:00 a.m. Sydney. This week the subject is how to
neutralise tricky opening lines and gambits.
Send in your questions.
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Thrilling courses
14.05.2008
– Former world-champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov has proven a highly entertaining
author in the Fritz trainer format. He recorded several DVDs and regularly
contributes to ChessBase Magazine. John Elburg, chess reviewer for more than ten
years now, watched his DVDs on
'Anti-Moscow Gambit' and
'Strategy'. Conclusion: Simply thrilling! Buy them now or read this
review with samplers.
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Karpov as an attacking player
14.05.2008
– He is known foremost as a positional player and endgame specialist, but hardly
as a master of attack. Yet 12th World Champion Anatoly Karpov was (and is) capable
of beautiful attacking play. In Wednesday night's Playchess
show Dennis Monokroussos shows us a particularly impressive example against Hungarian GM Gyula Sax in Linares 1983.
See you on the server.
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Devil's Advocate: Viswanathan Anand on mind games
13.05.2008
– World chess champion Viswanathan Anand is set for his title-defending match against challenger Vladimir Kramnik in October. Anand says Kramnik's challenge and taunts don't bother him because he believes "the main thing" is to win. "My own tendency is to just ignore him," Anand told Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate in CNN-IBN Live.
Videos and transcripts.
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Looking back and forward to Baku
13.05.2008
– The FIDE Grand Prix in Baku ended a week ago. Now another big event starts in the capital of Azerbaijan: the Third President's Cup. Two rounds have already been played. Before we receive and publish first reports from this tournament we take a look back at the Grand Prix, with a round-up report by Zahir Ahmadov and some spectacular photography by Farid Khayrulin.
A visual feast.
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MTel R5: Ivanchuk aiming for infinity with 5.0/5
12.05.2008
– When's the last time we have seen anything like this? The amazing Vassily Ivanchuk has won his fifth game in succession, beating Levon Aronian. He has won all games of the first half of the category 20 tournament, and has beaten all of the other players, three times with black and twice with white. Veselin Topalov is also in top form, winning his third game, against Bu Xiangzhi.
Full report.
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Edward Winter's Chess Explorations (2)
12.05.2008
– The Editor of Chess
Notes presents a challenge: half a dozen positions to solve from over-the-board play, ranging from quite straightforward to labyrinthine. But which are which? Although few, if any, clues are being given, readers are assured that there are some truly
beautiful lines to puzzle out.
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MTel R4: Ivanchuk wins yet again, leads by 1½ points
11.05.2008
– This is it, a potentially all-time record-breaking run: Vassily Ivanchuk has his fourth game in round four, continuing to maintain a perfect score in a category 20 tournament with a 2737 average rating of the participants. His performance, if that can be counted for a 4/4 score, is 3530. The other two games were drawn, leaving Veselin Topalov in second place with 2.5/4 points.
Full report.
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Tweaking Fritz - PART 2
11.05.2008
– The second in a series of columns on "Fritz11 tweaks" discusses some of the options found under the "Game" tab, specifically those which control when the Fritz program will resign or accept a draw. You can find more in the latest
ChessBase Workshop.
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MTel R3: Ivanchuk wins again, Topalov beats Cheparinov
10.05.2008
– For the third time in three rounds Vassily Ivanchuk scored a full point, utterly crushing Chinese GM Bu Xiangzhi, who could have resigned right out of the opening. Veselin Topalov beat his second Ivan Cheparinov with the black pieces. Ivanchuk leads with a perfect 3.0/3 score. The only regret: he missed a chance for a perfect miniature by overlooking a spectacular
mate in 13.
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Lothar Schmid – the Complete Chess Authority turns 80!
10.05.2008
– He was born on May 10th 1928 in Dresden, Germany, son of a book publisher and heir to the Karl Mai adventure series. Lothar Maximilian Lorenz Schmid became one of Germany's strongest grandmasters – and internationally famous as the arbiter in great matches, and a one of the world's leading collectors of chess books. Today he turns eighty.
Happy birthday, Lothar!
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