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Pictures from Paradise
17.12.2002
– At the World Junior
Championships, which are being currently held in the spectacularly beautiful
Vainguinim Beach, Panaji, Goa (India) the boys cannot watch the games the girls
play, and vice versa! The organisers, we are told, think it is too distracting,
mainly because of the light clothing of the girls in the hot weather. You will
find an illustrated report with some lovely location pictures by Vishal Sareen
and Vijay Kumar
here.
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We wish you a Mega Christmas
17.12.2002
– Not to be irreverant about the feast, but is this not a perfect present for the chess fan who wants it all? Mega 2003 is our flagship database of exclusive annotated material, with more than 2.3 millions carefully edited and standardised games, 50,000 with commentary by top players. The CD comes with new edition of Playerbase with 150,000 entries and a database of 14,000 photos. More.
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Mig talks to Kramnik
16.12.2002
– Immediately after the mega event Kramnik vs Deep Fritz in Bahrain our correspondent Mig Greengard cornered the world champion in his Royal Suite room at the Gulf Hotel. In a private, intimate atmosphere the two spoke about what had transpired in the past three weeks, but also about life in general, like what it feels like for a kid from Tuapse, Russia, to find himself a dollar millionaire. You will find excerpts from the interview and some MP3 soundbites
here.
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ChessBase Magzine 91 now shipping
16.12.2002
– It is a monumental CD with 1527 games, 484 with expert annotations, special
sections on openings theory, strategy, tactics, endgame and telechess. It also
contains part one of a multimedia report on Kramnik vs Deep Fritz in Bahrain,
with over an hour of video footage. All of this for just € 19.95 or just
over $17. Find out all about the contents
of CBM 91. And if you really want to know what you are missing take
a look at the
CBM 91 multimedia report.
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The man with the thousand-watt gaze
15.12.2002
– The Mott Hall School. Jerald Times, chess master and teacher, has a thousand-watt gaze and skin the color of bitter chocolate. He radiates energy as he patrols the classroom, urging fourth and fifth graders to fight through chess problems that he has given them. NM Jerald, a FIDE-2359 player, is the subject of an uplifting story in the New York Times. We bring you excerpts and pictures
here.
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World Juniors play in paradise
14.12.2002
– Goa, popularly known as "Rome of the East", "Tourist Paradise"
and "Pearl of the Orient", is a land of abundant sunshine, seashores,
sandy beaches and warm, friendly, hospitable people. The World Junior and the
World Girls U-20 Chess Championships is being held there from 9th December 2002
to 20th December 2002, at the palacious 5-Star Hotel Cidade de Goa, Vainguinim Beach, Panaji, Goa.
Photos, games, links.
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Shredder 7 – the record computer world champion
14.12.2002
– It is the most successful tournament programs in the world. Since 1996 Shredder
has won the world computer championship four times (1996, 1999, 2000, 2001),
in this year's event it came equal first and lost narrowly in the playoff, but
winning the computer blitz world championship outright. Now it's out, in a brand-new
version, ready to challenge Fritz and co. at the top of the computer ratings
lists.
More
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GM Training with GM Rogozenko
12.12.2002
– Grandmaster training free of charge. In tonight's
session GM Dorian Rogozenko will deal with Akiba Rubinstein, the Polish
grandmaster who was considered the most successful tournament player before
World War I and Lasker's main contender for
the world title, excelling by his masterly
endgame technique and deep strategic understanding. Start of the lesson is at 21.00 p.m.
CET, on our
server at Playchess.com
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Is chess a no-brainer?
12.12.2002
– Scientists have measured the brain activity of chess players while they search
for solutions to difficult chess problems. The result: the intelligence areas
of the brain remain inactive! As we suspected all along, chess is clearly not
played with the brain, but with other body parts. But maybe you should draw
your own conclusions from this interesting 'Nature'
article.
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What are the best time controls?
11.12.2002
– While he and others were defining a new
format for future world chess championships, Yasser Seirawan
polled the world's top 200 players on the proper time controls for blitz, rapid
and professional chess games. Even if you are not part of this illustrious group
you can have your voice heard. We will collect votes and opinions and forward
these to the relevant people. Please write to us and
tell us what you think.
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Why should the challenger have more rights?
11.12.2002
– As we heard from Yasser Seirawan in his "turkey
article" FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov has thrown a spanner
into the Reunification
Plan for chess by insisting on draw odds in his upcoming match against Garry
Kasparov. Now Ponomariov has explained his motivation for this move. He also
complains about his treatment by the International Chess Federation in the wake
of the Prague summit. Read all about it in this
interview by Anatoli Jaworski.
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Human or Computer? Take the test
11.12.2002
– 50 years ago Dr. Alan Turing suggested that a machine could be said to think
if the human interrogator could not distinguish it from the other human. Today's
computers cannot generally survive the Turing test – even in chess an astute
researchers can usually spot the artificial intelligence. But we do find rogue
computer programs masquerading as teenagers were infiltrating chat rooms, collecting
personal information or posting links to Web sites. More
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