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ChessBase Magazine 103: with a little gift
20.12.2004
– ChessBase Magazine appears every two months, on a CD delivered to your home.
CBM 103 contains 1400 recent games, 400 annotated, + 4000 correspondence games.
It has opening articles, middlegame training, endgame analysis, high-quality
video interviews. For those of you who do not know CBM we are providing, in
this report, a
free sampler...
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The American Chess Gladiator
19.12.2004
– 17-year-old Hikaru Nakamura may have missed breaking Fischer's record for
the youngest US Champion, but he is well on the way to smashing every other
one and becoming a true American sporting star. In this week's Playchess.com
lecture Dennis Monkroussos takes a look at some very interesting and instructive
games from this
exemplar of fighting chess.
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The world's second-youngest grandmaster
19.12.2004
– Ngoc Truongson Nguyen is a name you're going to have to remember. The lad from Vietnam, blessed with a 2527 rating, has just completed his third GM norm at the First Saturday tournament in Budapest – just over two months shy of his 15th birthday. A number of IM norms were made by other players, none older than 17. We bring you
games, results and pictures.
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Clinton, Kasparov at the Accoona launch
18.12.2004
– Accoona is a new company that specializes in two things: creating and running an advanced Google-style search engine, and building business relations between China and the rest of the world. And they are interested in chess. Last week the company was launched, in a swanky restaurant in New York with a
glittering array of special guests.
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Tigran Petrosian Memorial Tournament
18.12.2004
– An international Internet chess tournament is taking place, dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the birth of the 9th world champion, Tigran Petrosian. Four teams, from Russia, China, France and Armenia, are participating, with none of the players leaving their places of residence.
More...
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RJF Committee mobilizes pro-Fischer forces
18.12.2004
– While Bobby Fischer remains incarcerated in a Japanese prison a special committee in Iceland is moving to get him free and find him a home on the North-Atlantic island country. Iceland's foreign minister and a prominent political scientist have spoken out. Here's a report on Fischer's
Iceland Connection...
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Nakamura finishes off Karjakin in Mexico
17.12.2004
– It was V for victory for Hikaru Nakamura. There would be no GM draw to round out the match. The US champion won again to make the final score 4.5-1.5 over Ukraine's Sergey Karjakin. We talked to the winner after he returned home for the first time since winning the US Championship.
Report, games, and photos.
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US Championship Larsen prize
17.12.2004
– Few tournaments have a first prize of $5,000. Alex Fishbein won that much as a reward for his fighting chess! There was a five thousand dollar "Bent Larsen" prize for the player who most epitomized the uncompromising spirit of Danish legend. Draws were way down, and Fishbein had only one! Plus, a US Championship
photo album.
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Fischer to get refuge in Iceland?
16.12.2004
– The news today on Bobby Fischer, who is currently being held in a Japanese detention facilities pending extradition to the US, is that the Icelandic government has offered to grant him a residence permit. In a telephone interview Fischer speaks about his plight in Japan and reacts to statements by Garry Kasparov on Fischer Random Chess.
Full details...
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Fritz and Chesster volume two
15.12.2004
– The original Fritz & Chesster children's teaching program is currently
number two on Amazon's overall top
selling software list, just behind Adobe's latest Photoshop Elements 3.0.
Quite unprecedented for a chess program. First reviews of volume two lead us
to suspect that it will do
as well as the original.
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Aagaard & Shaw: with Ari Ziegler
15.12.2004
– On their Wednesday evening lecture live on Playchess.com
our Glasgow Chess Radio commentators IMs Jacob Aagaard & John Shaw will
again discuss the Nakamura-Karjakin match and a strong six-player event in
Israel. Guest is Ari Ziegler, who is there to bring
sanity to the show.
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Nakamura wins Mexico duel
14.12.2004
– US champion Hikaru Nakamura's first event as US champion has been a big success. With victory in game five he won his match against Ukraine's Sergey Karjakin with a game to spare. The match has been a slugfest and the only draw was perhaps the most exciting game of the match!
Photos and analysis.
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