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It's a chess war out there
25.12.2002
– You know our game is going mainstream when you read, in the New York Times
no less, about two feuding chess shops in the same street in New York's Greenwich
Village. The owners have filed lawsuits against each other, engaged in character
assassination and unleashed price wars. Read about how chess
rivalry becomes a blood sport.
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A very Happy Christmas to all our friends
25.12.2002
– This will hopefully be a joyous and peaceful holiday season. If you want to
spend some time with chess, visit our special Christmas
Puzzle section. During the coming week you will find a new set of puzzles,
one per day. In the end you can win a copy of Fritz, signed
by one of the world's top players. In the meantime the ChessBase staff would
like to wish all the visitors to our site a very Happy Christmas,
in any language you happen to speak.
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Can you play the Smashnikov?
23.12.2002
– Okay, that doesn't seem to be a real opening. But how about the Sveshnikov?
Or the Botvinnik, the Marshall Attack, the Budapest Gambit? Or simply one of
the miriad other variations of the Ruy Lopez and the Sicilian? In Fritz
8 there is a great fun way to learn
openings – the names, the moves and the ideas behind them. The
same applies to endgames.
And if you are looking for some fast action try out the theme
blitz function.
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Anatoly Karpov wins X3D Rapid Match
21.12.2002
– The four-game rapid
chess match between the two ex world champions in New York ended with a
surprise victory for 51-year-old Anatoly Karpov over the world's top-ranked
player Garry Kasparov. On the second day Karpov won the first game and drew the the second to take the match. Here's John Fernandez'
richly illustrated
report from New York.
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Kasparov vs Deep Junior moved to New York
21.12.2002
– This man vs machine match was originally scheduled for October
1 in Jerusalem, then it was postponed
to December 1st, then to January
5th. The venue was moved to Jacksonville, Florida. Today FIDE announced
that it would be held in Manhattan, New York, from Jan. 23 to Feb. 2, with two
"practice games" before that in Israel. We will keep you informed
as more details become known.
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And the winners are...
20.12.2002
– 'Lucky' Levon Aronian, the Armenian GM who turned 20 on October 6th and won
the men's section outright, and Zhao Xue, an 18-year-old Chinese girl, who won it on
tiebreak. Our final illustrated report
on the World Junior
Championships in Goa also tells of the blitz tournament where the segregation
of the sexes was finally lifted. By
V. Sarenn and V. Kumar
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The 2Ks Go 3D
20.12.2002
– 3D viewing goes back to 1838, which was also when Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov
played their first match. Or maybe it just feels that way. On Thursday they
sat down to face each other for the 174.5th time on day one of a two-day exhibition
rapid match, watched by hundreds live on Playchess.com.
Here's Mig Greengard's
report on day one.
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Pure magic in New York City
20.12.2002
– Chess in glorious
3D, Karpov vs Kasparov like in the good ol' days, and magician David Blaine
pulling tricks off the chessboard. It was an exciting night with incredibly
tense games. John Fernandez and Roland Schmaltz describe
the action in the ABC Studios in New York's famous Times Square
in this
illustrated report.
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Girls will be girls
19.12.2002
– World Junior Championships
has two more rounds to go. Armenian GM Levon Aronian is half a point in the
lead in the male section, while in the girls' group the Indian supertalent Koneru
Humpy and the Chinese WGM Zhao Xue share the lead. Both groups are still segregated,
but the players are learning to live with it. Only the girls sometimes dare
to sneak a peek. Read about it in our exclusive
illustrated report.
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GM Training with GM Rogozenko
19.12.2002
– Grandmaster training free of charge. In tonight's
session GM Dorian Rogozenko will have a look at the Four Knights' Game of the
Sicilian Defence, explaining the most important ideas and variations of this
sharp and easy to learn system against 1.e4. Start of the lesson is at 21.00 p.m.
CET, on our
server at Playchess.com
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Tactics from the juniors
18.12.2002
– The World Junior
Championships in Panaji, Goa brought problems with light
clothing and the separation
of the sexes. But in the end it boils down to chess. We bring you some of
the tactics that caught our eye in the first seven rounds – fifteen easy,
medium and hard puzzles for you to solve. There is even a PDF file to print
out and solve in the bathtub. Check it out in our puzzle section.
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Karpov vs Kasparov in glorious live 3D
17.12.2002
– It is billed as the first ever Internet broadcast of a chess match in 3D. By donning special electronic LCD viewing glasses for $99 you will be able to watch the two legendary world champions Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov battle it out in "eXtreme 3D". The rapid chess games will be played in the ABC Studios in Time Square, New York on December 19 and 20.
More – oh, so much more!
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