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The Rodney Dangerfield of Chess
26.01.2003
– Since winning the 2001 FIDE KO World Championship in Moscow Ruslan Ponomariov has discovered that one big paycheck and a nice medal do not automatically earn you respect in the chess world. After a horrible start in Wijk aan Zee Super Mariov has won three straight games to claw back to an even score with one round to play. Read all about it in Mig's
round 12 report.
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CNN and Spiegel go Chess
25.01.2003
– This thing between Kasparov vs Deep Junior in New York is going to be gigantic.
CNN has a big
report on the X3D press conference held on Thursday. Meanwhile
Europe's largest news portal, Spiegel Online, has set up an entire
mini-web
devoted to the man vs macine match – and even set up their own live coverage
using ChessBase technology.
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Loek on the rise
25.01.2003
– During his last three visits to Wijk aan Zee Vladimir Kramnik lost a total of one game. Today he lost his third of Corus 2003. Showing a toughness previously absent from his game, Loek van Wely bounced back from tough losses to beat the classical chess champion in excellent style. This is a long way from his seven losses a year ago! Anand and Polgar drew their games to set up the clash of leaders tomorrow in round 12.
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Moving to New York – and a new server
24.01.2003
– The ChessBase site is migrating to a new and more powerful server. And the
ChessBase web team is migrating to New York. For two weeks, that is, to cover
the event Kasparov vs Deep Junior live on the Internet. This means that there
will be no updates of these pages for the next 24 hours. But there is a lot
to read on our Man
vs Machine coverage page.
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They must have put something in the water
24.01.2003
– The pussy-cat took
a snooze on Tuesday – and woke up a ferocious animal. All but a single
game were decided, with Black winning three: Anand defeated Shirov, Polgar defeate
Grischuk and Radjabov grinding down an over-reaching Krasenkow. Even Vassily
Ivanchuk, caught up by the mood, was able to manage his first win against tail-ender
Jan Timman. Read Mig Greengard's entertaining and informative
report on round 10
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AOL and X3D join forces to broadcast Kasparov vs Deep Junior
23.01.2003
– "Viewers around the world can watch human chess champion Garry Kasparov
and his super-computer counterpart, Deep Junior, compete online for the FIDE
World Chess Championship", says a press
release published in New York today. All six games will
be broadcast live in both 2D and 3D on America Online (AOL) and at X3D Technologies'
Extreme 3D website, respectively. We will provide the exact URLs as soon as they
become available!
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A slight edge with White – what to do with it
23.01.2003
– Often (well, at least sometimes, hopefully) you emerge from the opening with an
advantage. But where do you go from there? In his online training tonight
and next week GM Dorian Rogozenko shows us how to convert small positional or material
gains into a win. Starting time is at
21.00 CET, free of charge on our server at
playchess.com.
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Closed for maintenance
22.01.2003
– The ChessBase Online database is undergoing
it's 2.5 million game check-up. It will not be accessible, neither from here
nor with Pocket
Fritz, for 24 hours. On Thursday it will reappear
in new glory, with 2.7 million up-to-date games.
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A technology company's invitation: meet the champs
22.01.2003
– Like to meet Garry Kasparov and the Deep Junior team. Then make your way to
the New York Athletic Club on Central Park South to meet them, as well as FIDE
president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and the people of X3D
Technologies, the computer company that is hosting the event (and already
staged the Kasparov-Karpov
match last December.
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Man vs Computer: the rules of the game
22.01.2003
– It took a long time, but now, just five day before the start of the Man
vs Machine match in New York, there is good news. "I am delighted to
advise that as of this evening the principals have agreed the definitive rules
for the match," writes David Levy, who spent last autumn working
on them. So here they are, the
rules of the game.
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Snooze aan Zee
21.01.2003
– What is better than a rest day coming up in a really tough tournament? Two
rest days. If you can afford to take the quick draw, or your name doesn't begin
with Topalov, this is no big problem. The only decisive game came when Grischuk
collapsed against Bareev's Caro-Kann. Take a look at what Evgeny did with his
queen in Mig's
round nine report.
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