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Grandmaster School St. Petersburg brings you: The Pirc Defence
01.03.2002
– On this masterfull new Training CD Grandmaster Aleksei Lugovoi has compiled his
entire knowledge about the Pirc Defence. The material has been checked and
revised by Alexander Khalifman, FIDE world champion 1999, so the quality is very
high. Included are 80,000 Pirc games. You will find a full description here.
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Francisco Vallejo Pons leads in Linares
28.02.2002
– Actually due to the odd
number of players he has a game extra compared to most of the others. But as
the underdog, the local talent, Francisco has scored five draws against all
the top players – a performance 127 points better than his 2629 rating.
Meanwhile Garry Kasparov has drawn first blood against Adams to join Vallejo
Pons in the lead. Full coverage with annotated games and illustrated reports are
available on our
Linares 2000
page.
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Chess on CNN – with a chess star of today
27.02.2002
– When a global TV network brings a full report on chess, it is definitely time to take a closer look. Whom does CNN deem worthy of a film portrait? FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov?
The perennial Garry Kasparov? None of these. It's 17-year-old Alexandra Kosteniuk.
You can read the story and view the entire TV news report on the CNN site here.
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Can this child beat Vladimir Kramnik?
27.02.2002
– Wunderkind David Howell from Seaford, East Sussex, is eleven years old. He was taught the moves at the age of five by his father after they had bought a chess set for £1.00 at a jumble sale. Now David is taking on BGN world champion Vladimir Kramnik in one-to-one contest. The event is being staged by Brain Games partner Einstein.
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Who is going to win in Cannes?
27.02.2002
– While five of the world's top players are holding their summit in Linares,
not far away in Cannes, France, the NAO Chess Masters tournament is taking place
with all the rest of the big guys: Morozevich, Topalov, Leko, Gelfand, Bareev,
Karpov, and others. Two well-known Grandmasters have very bravely
predicted how the tournament will go. You will find their predictions and all the games here.
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Player of the Year award – just two more days to vote!
27.02.2002
– Your last chance to cast a vote for chess player of the year until February 28, midnight Fiji time. Due to the large number of votes received we are doubling the prizes: at least one will be personalised and autographed by the winner of the poll. The results will be announced on March 10th. And no, you will not believe who's leading - we hardly do ourselves! All necessary details for the nominations can be found here.
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Maurice Ashley, everyday hero
26.02.2002
– Guess who has been nominated an "Everyday hero" by Burger King? Maurice
Ashley, the first and only African-American to achieve the title of International
Grandmaster. "Ashley is a hero because he's given back to the community
that has given him so much". As Director of Chess Programs for the Harlem
Educational Activities Fund he has been by helping to develop the self esteem
of local kids with chess. You will find the Burger King award page here.
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Welcome to Linares – again!
25.02.2002
– Whenever anything interesting happens in the chess world, John B Henderson is
sure to write a piece on it. Read John Henderson Report from Linares here...
All games and results can be viewed on our Linares
Event Page
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Linares 2002
23.02.2002
– Today the Wimbledon of chess started. First round games are going to be Ponomariov,
Ruslan - Ivanchuk, Vassily, Shirov, Alexei - Anand, Viswanathan, Vallejo Pons,
Francisco - Kasparov, Garry. You can follow all games live on http://www.todoajedrez.tv
and http://www.ajedrez21.com Get more
information on the ChessBase Event Site.
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So much more than simply a bunch of games
19.02.2002
– ChessBase Magazine 86 is out – a CD chock-full of goodies. Of course there is a main database with 1802 games and reports, over 500 annotated by experts. It has a multimedia report on the Europe-Asia match in Batumi, produced by the European team captain Alexander von Gleich. That's over 500 MB of video material. And there are training articles and databases, on the opening (this time Bird, Caro Kann and English), middlegame, endgame, strategy, tactics and correspondence chess. Find out more about it here.
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Chess - A psychiatrist matches Wits with Fritz
19.02.2002
– That is the name of a mysterious book that is being advertised
on the Internet. They say it contains a compilation of over 125 games that
systematically illustrate a strategy that succeeds in beating today’s best
chess computer programs in less than 40 moves. The author is a psychiatrist
who analyzed the thinking process behind chess computer programs. We have no
further details, but have ordered the book. You never know, maybe we can learn
a trick or two.
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Shredder tops the ratings lists
16.02.2002
– It has won more computer chess world championships than anyone can remember.
Now for the first time Shredder
6 has topped the computer rating lists, which are based on a very large
number of games played under controlled conditions on many computers. Of the top 20 programs 17 (including the top five) are produced or distributed by ChessBase. Check it out in our online
shop. Fritz7 will be tested in the next list.
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