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Highly recommended – Deep Fritz 12 download
03.04.2010
– Fritz is one of the best known and most widely used chess programs in the world. ChessBase recently released the Deep Fritz 12 downloadable version. This is an excellent initiative and allows players in remote locations to receive their software instantly. There are a few restrictions, but many useful features are available.Buying an activation key will lift all restrictions.
Review by Zhigen Lin.
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Richárd Rapport – a new star in chess
02.04.2010
– They are known as the ‘post-Carlsen generation’: young players not so dependent on computers, not obsessed with the opening theory, looking for much more practical and aggressive play. They are Wesley So, Berbatov, Nyzhnyk – and Richárd Rapport of Hungary, who became a grandmaster at thirteen and who has now launched a professional career.
Indepth portrait of a young professional.
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The Achilles heel h2...
02.04.2010
– ... Black had spotted in this position when he went for 28...Bh3 to allow his c-rook to forcefully occupy the second rank while clearing the diagonal b6-g1. How would you assess the situation after the capture of the bishop?
A) Black wins;
B) the position is balanced;
C) White gets the advantage.
The solution is here,
but first ponder over it with a
larger version of the diagram.
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Magnus Carlsen's cousin in America
01.04.2010
– Two weeks ago we published an interview by the German magazine Der Spiegel with Magnus Carlsen, with a picture that one of our readers found familiar. "He looks remarkably like my son," thought Professor Nancy Carlsson-Paige of Lesley University of Cambridge, Massachusetts. After a little research we discovered that the two are second cousins.
Guess who the American relative is.
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Fischer’s remains to be exhumed?
01.04.2010
– After his death on January 17, 2008 an Icelandic court awarded Bobby Fischer's estate to his wife Miyoko Watai. Then Marilyn Young, Fischer's "Filipina live-in partner", filed a claim on behalf of her eight-year-old daughter Jinky, who she says was fathered by the former World Champion. Now it appears the case will be settled by the disinterment of Fischer's remains for DNA testing.
Press release.
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LHC goes online – chess grandmasters worried
01.04.2010
– On Tuesday, at 13:06h CEST, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland/France achieved the world's first seven tera electron volt collisions. It was a great moment in physics, but also a topic of discussion in GM circles for some years now. There is reason for their concern: could the LHC generate micro black holes that destroy the earth?
Theories and explanations.
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Shipping now: ChessBase Magazine 135
31.03.2010
– The new ChessBase Magazine presents the greatest chess tournament of the year
so far, Wijk an Zee, in a worthy fashion: six of the main protagonists (tournament
winner Carlsen, Anand, Kramnik, Shirov, Short, and Van Wely) have commented
on their best games, some even in video or audio format. A total of 13 up-to-date
openings articles on the DVD once again enforce your repertoire with new ideas
and tricks. Order CBM
135 now, or read this preview.
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Technique in rook endings II
31.03.2010
– Every book on rook endings tells us that positions with
pawns on the same wing are usually drawn, even when one side has
an extra pawn. In Nice, Magnus Carlsen demonstrated that even with an equal number
of pawns (four against four on the kingside) there are still plenty of practical chances,
especially in a rapid game. Playchess spectators were enthralled to see how a hopelessly drawn
endgame turned in the hands of the Norwegian into a winning position. In his analysis for ChessBase Magazine Online, Karsten
Müller reveals to you exactly where Carlsen's opponent Ponomariov left the path
which
led to a draw.
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Click & Fritz: Deep Fritz 12 for download
30.03.2010
– The new multiprocessor version Deep Fritz 12 does not only play stronger
and calculate much faster than the single-core version. It is also the first
Fritz ever that is available in record delivery time as a download version.
You don't have to simply sit and wait. Download Deep Fritz 12
here and now (payment through
Click&Buy or PayPal) or find out more about the
DVD release.
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Gareyev captures JNBS UWI Masters in Jamaica
30.03.2010
– This is not just any event – it took place on the campus grounds of the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica, nestled in a lush valley, one of the most scenic areas in Greater Kingston. On the free day participants could typically scramble up waterfalls or swim with dolphins. The chess action was dominated by Uzbek GM Timur Gareyev from the University of Texas.
Big pictorial report.
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Chess Classic Mainz 2010 – Back to the roots
30.03.2010
– The world economic crisis is being felt in chess. In Bulgaria the the annual MTel tournament has been cancelled this year, and the very popular Mainz Chess Classic has been reduced to a three-day simul and open. Still, two world champions are part of the former, and a very large elite field of GMs is expected to play in the latter, which carries a prize fund of €30,000.
Press release.
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The singer Vasily Smyslov
29.03.2010
– Although Vassily Vassilievich Smyslov, who died last Saturday, was best known as a chess player and World Champion, he had a great love for music. "My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music," he wrote, "and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became accustomed to thinking of chess as an art."
Listen to Smyslov sing Stenka Razin.
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