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Jobava challenges computer analysis
07.02.2007 – If you start with the e-pawn and are tired of the Caro-Kann you will in the inspired game our Playchess lecturer Dennis Monokroussos analyzes this week. In it Baadur Jobava, facing Super-GM Evgeny Bareev in the 2003 European Club Cup, played an idea that computers will never find. Take heart.
 

Illya Nyzhnyk wins Group B in Moscow Open
07.02.2007 – Group A was won by Grandmasters Evgeniy Najer and Vasily Yemelin with 7.5/9 points and 2803/2767 performances. Group B was won alone by Illya Nyzhnyk of Ukraine, rated 2217, with 8.5/9 points and a 2633 performance. Why is this second item infinitely more interesting than the first? Well, Illya is a teddybear-toting ten-year-old. Results and video.
 

Andrew Martin – The Inside Guide to Chess Cheating
07.02.2007 – It seems that the modern tournament player cannot get by without having at least a working knowledge of the ways one can extract the maximum out of a chess game. In this week's Radio ChessBase Show on Playchess.com Andrew Martin covers the basics of cheating. Miss it at your own cost.
 

Photos from Vladimir Kramnik's wedding
06.02.2007 – On December 31, 2006, world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik and French journalist Marie-Laure Germon wed in a civil ceremony. On Sunday, February 4th, the religious rites were conducted in the Orthodox Church of St-Alexandre-Nevsky in Paris. It was a private ceremony with family and good friends. No journalists. But we have pictures.
 

Magnus Carlsen wins blindfold chess event
05.02.2007 – Four strong players in a round robin tournament on the beautiful Danish island of Funen. The twist: they played without view of the board, entering and receiving their moves on a computer that only showed an empty chessboard. The winner was the top seed, 16-year-old Magnus Carlsen from Norway. Illustrated report.
 

Chess in the City
05.02.2007 – What do taxi drivers in New York do at night? Forget Travis "You talkin' to me?" Bickel stalking a senator or defending the 12-year-old Iris. Today's cabbies go for mind games and intellectual battles. Like Jimmy, Thomas and Big Simal, who slug it out at three-minute chess in Dunkin' Donuts. David Pambianchi watched.
 

Five ChessBase disks
05.02.2007 – Potential purchasers of ChessBase products are always curious about what lies "beneath the shrink wrap"; what will they actually find on the disk inside the package. In the latest Workshop we demystify another batch of ChessBase CDs, including Junior10, Correspondence 2006, ABCs of Tactics, White Repertoire 1.e4, and Test, Evaluate, and Improve Your Chess. Workshop...
 

Akopian wins GibTel Masters in Gibraltar
04.02.2007 – The Fifth GibTelecom Chess Festival took place in Gibraltar from January 23rd to February 1st 2007. The Masters Section was a nine-round Swiss and was won with 7½/9 by Vladimir Akopian of Armenia, ahead of Areshchenko, Nakamura and Sutovsky. Report.
 

Nigel Short's allegations in DNA Sport
03.02.2007 – We have been taken to task by the Topalov web site for "falsely attributing statements to Nigel Short" about his observations during the world championship in San Luis. Really? In the five lines of text there was just one one minor technical detail to correct. The rest was quoted verbatim from the original source. Accusations, refutations, feedback.
 

Campomanes hospitalized after car accident
03.02.2007 – The long-time president (1982-1995) and current honorary president of FIDE, Florencio Campomanes, was badly injured in a car accident on his way to the airport after the FIDE Presidential Board meeting in Antalya, Turkey. After a 7½ hour operation Campomanes was said to be in stable condition. Details.
 

Moscow Open under way
02.02.2007 – The Third International Chess Festival Moscow Open 2007 is taking place in Moscow, Russia, from January 27th to February 4th, 2007. The number of participants is 820, a record for this event and for Russian tournaments in general. The participants are from 18 countries and include 60 grandmasters. Photo reports by the organisers.
 

Kasim beats Uzbek national team 4:1
01.02.2007 – Clock simuls are something special: the master has the same time as each of his opponents, to whom he has to attend individually. They can move whenever they want. Under such circumstances to face a team of five players, including a bevy of grandmasters, is a daunting task. It was undertaken by former FIDE world champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov. Report and interview.