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Chess stars of the Baltic Sea region
22.10.2005 – The International Youth Team championship of the Baltic Sea Countries in Narva, Estonia, saw 60 champions of the region playing in six teams – from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, and Estonian. There were ten players per team, from 10 to 18 years in age. Read all about it in Valery Golubenko's illustrated report.
 

San Luis: The return of the participants
21.10.2005 – Earlier this week, at the end of the very exciting but also quite exhausting FIDE World Championship, players, dignitaries, journalists and friends packed their bags and embarked on the journey back home. So too your newsteam from ChessBase.com. We bring you farewell pictures from San Luis and, for those who missed something, a list of all video links.
 

The Ugandans are coming!
21.10.2005 – Recently the Ugandan Chess Federation staged a qualification tournament to determine which of their national team would be included in a trip to Germany. After tie-break games eight player were selected, and spent some quality time in the beautiful town of Forcheim. Harold Wanyama reports.
 

14-year-old Carlsen with 2792 performance
20.10.2005 – Schachwunderkind Magnus Carlsen strikes again. In devastating form the young Norwegian GM took first place at the Arnold Eikrem Memorial in Gausdal, a full point ahead of exprienced GMs and with a performance never yet seen from one so young. On the next rating list Magnus will be just a few points shy of 2600. Here's an illustrated report by Tarjei Svenson.
 

San Luis: The prize-giving ceremony
18.10.2005 – After three intense weeks in Argentina one of the most exciting world championships in memory came to an end, with a spectacular prize-giving ceremony. We bring you one of a series of picture reports while we ourselves embark on the journey back home.
 

'Where's my Fritz 9?'
17.10.2005 – That was the most common greeting we received when we arrived, ten days ago, in San Luis for the FIDE World Championship. Prudently we had taken a bunch of pre-release programs with us. This week the full English version for Fritz 9 will become available in our shop. Here's what's so special about it.
 

Dia de Internet 2005
16.10.2005 – The World Championship in St. Luis is over, with three weeks of exciting chess. Now it’s time to become active yourself again. A wonderful and interesting opportunity to do so is offered by the "Dia De Internet" chess festival, which takes place from October 20 to 22 on the Playchess.com server. There is a prize fund of no less than €4,000,00 to be won – the first prize alone is €800.  More...
 

Playchess lecture: Gelfand's tactical feast
16.10.2005 – The Israel GM (originally from Belarus) Boris Gelfand is number 13 in the world, a hard worker who favours complicated positions. In his Monday night Playchess lecture Dennis Monokroussos shows us a razor-sharp 1995 game against Alexei Shirov. Don't miss it – it has something for every chess fan.
 

'Veselin is interested to play Kramnik or Kasparov'
15.10.2005 – Silvio Danailov is the manager, trainer and coordinater of the new World Champion Veselin Topalov. Immediately after it became clear that his charge had bagged the title Danailov gave an interview to the Russian chess magazine "64", in which he spoke of Topalov's performance and his future plans for the world championship.
 

San Luis R14: Topalov wins, Anand second
15.10.2005 – A draw between Peter Svidler and Vishy Anand in the final round left Anand in second place by the tiebreak system used of this championship. The winner was and is Veselin Topalov, whose draw against Judit Polgar left him 1.5 points ahead of the field, with a 2890 performance. Full illustrated report.
 

San Luis – and simply getting there
14.10.2005 – For ten days now the ChessBase news team has been reporting on the World Championship directly from San Luis. We are comfortably settled, with excellent facilities provided by the organisers. However, just getting to the central Argentinian province was an adventure of its own. Here is the belated tale of our 12,000 km journey.
 

San Luis R13: Veselin Topalov is World Champion
14.10.2005 – With Vishy Anand and Peter Svidler both conceding early draws the FIDE World Championship was finally decided when the hard-fought Kasimdzhanov-Topalov game ended undecided. The Bulgarian is now a point an a half ahead of his nearest rivals and cannot be caught. Big illustrated report and videos.