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Sing along in Slovenia
08.11.2002
– While Garry Kasparov is chalking up a 3000 Elo performance on board one for
the leading Russian team a Slovenian group is singing
the praises of the game. Sample: "Chess! Black and White, checkered board's what
we play on, your queen and my king can't meet, that's for sure. Closer and closer,
your knight took my pawn..." The song and results are
here.
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GM Training with GM Rogozenko
07.11.2002
– Grandmaster training free of charge. Tonight, GM Dorin Rogozenko will introduce the Sveshnikov Sicilian opening, explaining the main lines with Black's typical reactions. At the end of
the lesson you can download a tree with all variations, suggestions and sample
games. Start is at 21.00 p.m. CET, on our server at Playchess.com.
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Joel Lautier's Shogi simul
06.11.2002
– He is by his own admittance a "patzer-level" Shogi player. But chess grandmaster Joel Lautier, whose mother is Japanese, recently took on three of the best Shogi players in Japan in a clock simul. In chess naturally. It was not, however, a trivial task. Japan's top Shogi player, Yoshiharu Habu, is of IM strength.
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Beautiful people in a beautiful place
06.11.2002
– Seldom before has a chess Olympiad been held in a more beautiful place. The Slovenian town of Bled has a lake surrounded by mountains and palaces. Our roving reporter Anna Dergatscheva in on location and has sent us a large number of very fine pictures from the Olympiade, including a special section on female players, like Almira Skripchenko on the left. You will find Anna's illustrated report
here.
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New: Dutch Defence by Boris Schipkov
05.11.2002
– Choosing the Dutch Defence is a clear signal that you are willing to go for
the full point with the black pieces. There are no such things as exchange variations
or an early trade of queens. What's more, limited theoretical knowledge will
serve you quite well here, for a change. Boris Schipkov has a new CD on the
Dutch, which Steve
Lopez has reviewed. You can find out more
about it and buy it in our online
shop.
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Deep Fritz? Never heard of it...
05.11.2002
– It was a great shame. Last Friday one of the candidates of the Austrian version of "Who wants to be a millionaire?" blew a lot of money by not knowing which program had played against Vladimir Kramnik in Bahrain. High Paul, Wide Andy, Near Peter or Deep Fritz? Mon dieu, she didn't know! The correct answer would have got her $5000 and a ticket into the next round.
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Anand beats Karpov in Corsica
05.11.2002
– It was a tense affair, with three-time rapid chess winner Vishy Anand losing
the first of two games against Anatoly Karpov at the Corsica Open. But the Indian
superstar came back strongly with a fine win in game two. After that the first
two tie-break games were drawn, but then Anand showed his strength in the blitz,
winning both games to take the title. This should take him to the top of the
Rapid Rating List.
You will find the results and games
here.
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Another rapid chess final with Anatoly Karpov
04.11.2002
– Does the picture look familiar? For the third time in recent months we see
Anatoly Karpov in the final of a world-class rapid chess event. After the Eurotel
Trophy and the recent Cap
d'Agde event the 12th world champion is now facing Vishy Anand in the final
of the Corsica International Open. The games will be played on Monday, November 4th.
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More to it than meets the eye
03.11.2002
– Which of the two knights is the white
knight, we asked you in our ChessBase
puzzle no. 10. It turns out that both are given in exactly the same shade
of grey. Even the squares on which they stand are exactly the same. It is very
difficult to believe, even when you look at the picture up close. On the other
hand it is perfectly justified that the human brain allows itself to be "deceived"
in this way. Read all about it here.
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Is Garry Kasparov all washed up?
03.11.2002
– Well, judge for yourself. After a dismal showing in Russia
vs The World Garry Kasparov had been written off as a has-been by a number
of chess journalists. Now the world's strongest player is punishing them with
a 3000+ Elo performance at the Bled
Olympiad. Playing on board one for Russia Kasparov has so far scored 4.5
out of five. His colleagues Peter Svidler and Alexander Khalifman are not doing
too bad either. You will find statistics and results
here.
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Vlad Tkatchiev rules in Corsica
03.11.2002
– 50 GMs from 32 different countries and a total of 350 players. Of these 16
qualified for the prestigious Masters, including Vladislav Tkatchiev, who displayed
a stratospheric performance of 2807. The flamboyant Vlad joins Anand, Shirov,
Karpov, Dreev, Jussupov and other top players in the quarterfinals today. You
can watch live coverage at the on Europe-Echecs
website, who have provided us with this
report from Corsica.
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Russia in the lead, Kasparov in superb form
01.11.2002
– In round six of the 35th Chess Olympiad in Bled Russia beat the leading Bosnia
Herzegovina resounding with 3.5:0.5 and went into the lead. with 18.5. Full
results, games and tables are still slow to come by at the official
coverage page, so we bring you some statistics and tables. Garry Kasparov's score so far, 3½ out of 4, translates
to an Elo performance of 2964.
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