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Tournaments – past, present and future
15.04.2005 – A whole slew of high-class tournaments have just finished, are in progress, or have been announced. Dos Hermanas (won by Radjabov), the Cuban Championship, Gausdal, Sigeman & Co, the Russian Team Championship, Sofia and Dortmund – hardly any you will want to miss. We bring you games, results and links.
 

Bobby Fischer settles down
15.04.2005 – The news was he planned to sue the US Government for $200 million. Now we learn that Fischer has dropped the lawsuit, which may have been filed without his consent. He is settling down in Iceland, enjoying the food (especially seafood and lamb), the space and fresh air, the absence of nuclear plants. We bring you the latest news and lots of new photos.
 

World Ladies Tournament in Jinan
14.04.2005 – In 2003 the city of Jinan staged a male + female tandem chess event, now these imaginative Chinese organisers have come up with another winner: inviting twelve beautiful, strong women players to take part in the San Jinan Cup World Ladies Tournament (April 14–19). We enthusiastically bring you a first giant pictorial report.
 

The Nigerian Chess Scam – revisited
14.04.2005 – Remember the Advance Fee Fraud involving chess teacher being promised a $150,000 a year salary for training the Nigerian chess team? Well, one chess trainer has applied for the job. Grandmaster Dr Martin Roland, number 19 on the world rankings (Elo 2698), successful Linares player and seven times Olympic gold medalist, has come close to clinching the deal.
 

The Garry Kasparov Interview, Part 2
14.04.2005 – In the second installment of our epic interview with the world's highest-rated chess retiree, we discuss Kasparov's picks for his best games, tournaments, and years, his legendary opening preparation, chess evolution over the decades, and the past and future of chess and the championship. And what about Fischer?
 

Sensation: Dubai Open won by Wang Hao
14.04.2005 – Wang Who?? The question and the question marks are justified. The clear first place winner is a Chinese player who left 53 GMs and 30 IMs gasping for air. We say player because Wang has no FIDE title. It gets worse: he turned 16 during round five of the event. Clearly we are going to have to watch this lad. Full report with games, results and lots of pictures.
 

Viktor Kortchnoi's my life for chess
13.04.2005 – Viktor Kortchnoi has authored an incredible two DVD series for ChessBase entitled "My Life for Chess". Get a preview of these disks featuring the man ChessBase Workshop columnist Steve Lopez calls "a bottled hurricane". Workshop...
 

Peter Leko takes on the French
12.04.2005 – Recently Peter Leko, Hungary's top GM and the world's number four player, gave a clock simul against eight top chess teams from French schools and universities. Each side had 90 minutes for all the moves, Leko naturally 90 minutes for all his games. The event was held in the Paris Senat. Guess who turned up...
 

Dealing with the Dreadful Dragon
11.04.2005 – Don't you hate Dragon players? Well, most e4 players do. They dig in with a strong fianchettoed bishop and a safely castled king, while the white player has all the fish to fry. If these Dragon specialists are driving you nuts, Aryan Argandewal has some advice for you: play the Yugoslav Attack!
 

Anand wins fourth Chess Oscar
11.04.2005 – He won two in a row, in 1997 and 1998. Now Indian Super-GM Vishy Anand has done it again, winning the Oscar for 2004 Chess Oscar after clinching it for 2003. The worldwide poll involving leading chess writers, critics and journalists from 75 countries, and conducted by Russian magazine 64, gave Anand 5205 points for victory.
 

On world chess and crapulent GMs
11.04.2005 – In recent days there has been a spate of articles, editorials and interviews on chess. Anand gave an interview to Rediff; Jon Speelman and Leonard Barden wrote columns in the Guardian; ACP president Joel Lautier was extensively interviewed by the Russian chess magazine 64-Chess; and of course Nigel Short did his thing in the Telegraph. Interesting material...
 

Double-checking your opening - part two
11.04.2005 – In Part Two of a series on identifying and researching non-book moves, ChessBase Workshop takes a look at how to use ChessBase 9 features to help you pinpoint and learn from these points of variance. More...