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Making Moves: Erotic Chess
04.12.2002
– Did you know that chess is a highly erotic game? Ask Ann Regentin, who has
written an article on the subject in Clean Sheets magzine. "Chess provides
a perfect arena for a long, slow dance of mutual temptation," she writes.
"In both chess and sex, you use that intuition to break the other down,
bring them to their knees in one way or another, whether it's defeat or ecstasy."
Go
read it here!
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Time Magazine on 'Brawn and brains'
02.12.2002
– He's 6 foot 8 1/4" (2,00 m) and packs 245 lbs (112 kg) of pure muscle.
Like his brother he is a professional boxer – and a keen chess player.
Vitaly Klitschko,
31, is challenging Lennox Lewis, heavyweight champ of the World Boxing Council
early next year. To a boxing match and a game of chess. Contrary to the
Time
Magazine report we believe that Lewis will win – the chess game,
that is.
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Is chess a war game?
02.12.2002
– It is hardly astonishing that the game of chess lends itself to military symbolism. In recent weeks the media has been full of war and conflict metaphors taken from the our sedate little game. "It is turning out that Saddam is a better chess player than President George W. Bush," says one report. Another says "The inspectors landed. Now the chess game begins." Here are a few stories that
illustrate the point.
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Peter Leko fine – asleep in bed
02.12.2002
– There were urgent, world-wide rumours all night that Peter Leko had been involved in a terrible car accident in Budapest. Even the wire services have been trying to check this out. We called Peter's wife Sophie who told us that as of 8 a.m. this morning Peter was fast asleep in bed, snoring gently. Interesting how the same fatal-car-crash rumour about top players keeps coming up periodically. Fortunately we can simply forget this one.
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Polgar beats Ponomariov in spectacular tiebreak
02.12.2002
– The Benidorm tournament
ended in a tie for first place, with Judit Polgar and Ruslan Ponomariov both
leading the field with 8 points in 11 rounds. The winner had to be decided by
two blitz tie-break games (3min + 2sec). The first was a draw, the second won
by Judit in brilliant style. Congratulations to the strongest female player
in the history of the game! You will find all results and games
here.
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The Ambassadrice of Balmain
01.12.2002
– See what happens when you work hard and become really good at chess. A Swiss watch manufacturer comes along and sponsors your chess career, gives you some really cool watches and nominates you Ambassadrice to promote their products around the world. Well, it happened to Alexandra Kosteniuk, who has has just signed a sponsoring contract with the Swiss watch manufacturers Balmain.
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The 2006 world chess campion?
30.11.2002
– You have a tournament with the current world champion and a legendary ex world champion. And other world-class players like Shirov, Polgar and Psachis. And who, pray, would be leading after eight rounds? A 12-year-old boy, that's who. Some day Sergey Karjakin intends to become world champion himself. In four years from now, when he his sixteen. You will find an interview with young Sergey plus results and games from the Benidorm tournament
here.
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Fritz 8: It's just like in the movies!
30.11.2002
– The latest incarnation of our flagship program Fritz has some fairly remarkable
new features. Take the photo-realistic 3D board, for example. It is hard to
distinguish it from a video film of a real-life chessboard. Except that the
pieces glide automatically across the swuares, and you can change the material
with a click of the mouse. This is just one of the highlights of Fritz
8, which will start shipping next week.
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Amateurs and stars side by side
29.11.2002
– You may not have heard, but there is an interesting new tournament taking place in Benidorm, Spain. It is based on the principle of the New York Open. The idea is to get amateurs and top stars playing together, in the same venue, with very high prizes.
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Who wants to be a millionaire – part two
29.11.2002
– Remember our report
on the Austrian lady who missed a chance to become a millionaire by not knowing
the name of the program that played against Vladimir Kramnik in Bahrain? Well,
a couple of weeks later the story repeated itself on German television, with
a candidate once again facing the same incredibly difficult (and strangly sleasy) question.
This is how she fared...
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GM Training with GM Rogozenko
28.11.2002
– Grandmaster training free of charge. Tonight, GM
Dorin Rogozenko (in picture right) will take
a look at the fascinating world of rook endings, presenting basic positions and
explaining instructive mistakes from grandmaster practice. Start
of the lesson is at 21.00 p.m. CET, on our
server at Playchess.com
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Alexei Shirov: FIDE steps back to medieval ages
28.11.2002
– Ten days ago we published thhe details of a new
world championship format, as has been decided by FIDE for the current and
next two cycles. Now Alexei Shirov has criticized the proposal in an open letter
to his GM colleagues. "I think the last time when so many players got direct
seeds from one cycle to another was in 1985 which is nearly the same as medieval
ages." You will find Shirov's letter
here.
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