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Light clothing, beautiful legs
12.08.2004
– In the height of summer there are exciting chess events being staged all over the world. We bring you reports and links from the British Championship in Scarborough, the Hogeschool event in Holland, the Tournoi d'échecs in Montréal and the Russia-China match in Moscow. We also have a lot of
exciting pictures.
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Short on blunders – part two already
11.08.2004
– Some time ago we spoke to Nigel Short about the FIDE world championship in Tripoli, which he disparagingly called a "blunderfest". Well, guess who committed the biggest flub-up of them all? We probe the mechanisms of Nigel's incredible blunder in Libya, all the way to the bone, in
part two of our interview.
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Spassky to Bush: Arrest me!
10.08.2004
– Boris Spassky, who played the contentious return match against Bobby Fischer in Yugoslavia 1992, for which the latter is currently facing deportation and incarceration in the US, has appealed to President Bush to show mercy and charity for his tormented successor. If for some reason that should be impossible, Spassky suggests a
very imaginative alternative...
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Ilyumzhinov and the Chess City in Dubai
08.08.2004
– Who can say he doesn't think big? FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has just unveiled a plan to build a new "chess city" in the Emirate of Dubai. It's a US $2.6 billion project that is expected to play host to (hold on to your hats) 60 million amateur and professional chess followers annually. You don't believe
he can do it?
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Anand wins Mainz rapid over Shirov
08.08.2004
– India's Viswanathan Anand continued his hot German summer and added to his wardrobe for the fourth consecutive year in Mainz. He was awarded the winner's black jacket by organizer Hans Walter-Schmitt for his 5-3 Rapid Duel victory over Spaniard Alexei Shirov. Alexander Grischuk and Peter Svidler also defended their 2003 Mainz titles.
Photos and report.
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Chess Classic 2004: Anand leads Shirov 4:2
08.08.2004
– With one day and two games to go India's Vishy Anand leads Alexei Shirov by two points in their Rapid Chess match. In the Chess960 (Fischer Random) between Peter Svidler and Levon Aronian all six games were decided for a 3:3 score. The FiNet Chess960 Open was won by Zoltan Almasi. Details in our
illustrated report.
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Free points from Pal Benko
08.08.2004
– He twice made it to the Candidates' Tournament – Hungarian-born Pal Benko, today a respected chess columnist, is someone from
whom you can learn a trick or two. In his Monday night Playchess.com
lecture Dennis Monokroussos illustrates the point with a
remarkable 45-year-old game.
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Alterman on the Dragon
08.08.2004
– The Dragon Variation of the Open Sicilian is one of the most-feared openings
in chess, with generations of players and experts creating a monumental
body of theory. The double-edged play makes it an opening
nobody can ignore. In Sunday's Playchess
lecture
GM Boris Alterman tells us why.
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Almira wins Ural Supertournament
08.08.2004
– One of the strongest women's tournaments of all time ended with a resounding victory by Moldavian-French WGM Almira Skripchenko. After returning to Paris Almira spoke to us on the phone, telling us about the tournament and her colleagues. She even annotated her best game for us. Here is an
extensive illustrated report.
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Anyone – or anything – can play!
07.08.2004
– Anything goes in our freestyle tournament on the Playchess.com
server this Saturday, August 7th. Participants can use computers, visiting
grandmasters, slime beings from other planets – whatever they want. The
games start at 15:00h server time (GMT +2), time controls are 7 min + 2 sec/move.
Watch the fun...
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IM Bryon Nickoloff (1956 – 2004)
07.08.2004
– In 1999 doctors told Bryon Nickoloff that he had cancer and less than six months to live. But the well-known Canadian IM survived for five years, playing strong chess tournaments to the very end. His last game was at the Canadian Open in July, where he defeated his opponent with the black pieces. Bryon passed away on August 3rd. Frank Dixon remembers
one of Canada's best.
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Mate search in Fritz
07.08.2004
– Fritz' Mate engine is a useful tool for solving the "mate in x"
problems that we find in chess books and magazines. Today
we take a closer look at the Mate engine and answer a
nagging question that some users
occasionally ask: "Why does Mate analyze so slowly?"
ChessBase Workshop...
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