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800 Wins at 32 Years Old!?
25.02.2003
– It's chess all right, but Japanese chess, or shogi. The popular sport has its own icon, Yoshiharu Habu, whose games are regularly on TV in Japan. On Sunday Habu became, at 32, the youngest player ever to reach 800 career victories, breaking the record by six months. Kasparov has yet to reach that number in competitive play.
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Kasparov will win Linares!
24.02.2003
– A week ago we introduced you to the participants
at the Linares supertournament and asked you to predict who would win. We
got many hundreds of messages from almost every corner of the world. Most visitors
believed that Garry Kasparov would completely dominate the opposition. We have
put together extensive excerpts from the letters we received.
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Leko-Kasparov a Battle for the Ages, but a Draw
24.02.2003
– The kids took the day off and Kramnik couldn't make progress against Vallejo. It was left to Peter Leko and Garry Kasparov to provide the show, and they did that and more. Leko had a fine position until Kasparov pounced with a rook sacrifice. An incredibly difficult Queen and pawn endgame arose and it seems that Kasparov missed several winning attempts in the seven hour marathon.
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A Black Day in Linares! Radjabov Defeats Kasparov
23.02.2003
– Ah, they grow up so fast, so very fast. Teimour Radjabov became the youngest player ever to defeat the world's number one player in tournament play. He beat Kasparov with the black pieces in a wild tactical affair out of the French Defense. Kramnik joined Anand at the top of the standings by adding to Ponomariov's woes. Vallejo entered the action and held Anand to a draw.
Full report.
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Fritz wins Paderborn computer chess tournament
23.02.2003
– After suffering a setback in round
five, when it lost to its sibling Shredder, Fritz cruised home to victory
with five points from seven rounds. It was helped by Shredder's shock loss in
its final game to the amateur program Yace. You will find the final results
and all the games of the tournament
here.
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Klaus Bischoff, Germany's first Internet Champion
23.02.2003
– The first German Internet Championship was successfully completed on Saturday. It was not, as we stated, the first national Internet championship in the world – this was staged in Iceland seven years ago, as we were informed by Hannes Sigurgeirsson and Dadi Jonsson (wonder where they are from). In spite of this the event in Hamburg was a great success. Here are the games, results and an
illustrated report.
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Anand and Leko Start Strong in Linares
23.02.2003
– Vishy Anand continued where he left off in Wijk aan Zee by beating Ruslan Ponomariov in the first round of the Linares supertournament. Peter Leko kept pace by outplaying youngster Teimour Radjabov in the endgame. Kramnik-Kasparov failed to live up to expectations and fizzled to an 18-move draw. Paco Vallejo had the bye. Report, results, online game replay, and
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First German Internet Championship
22.02.2003
– On Saturday afternoon Playchess.com will host the first German Internet
Championship. There are twelve qualifiers including GMs Graf, Hübner, Dautov,
Bischoff, Gutman, Gustafsson, Hickl, as well as the U-18 women's world champion
Elisabeth Pähtz (picture). It is the first official national Internet championship ever. Download the free Playchess client
now and watch the live action from 14:00 hour MET (13:00 GMT, 8 a.m. NY).
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Schredder beats Fritz at the IPCCC
22.02.2003
– Fritz was cruising along at the computer chess tournament in Paderborn. But then sibling Shredder produced a stumbling-block victory, the result of brilliant openings book preparation, with Fritz having essentially lost the game before Shredder had started to think. Now there are four programs in the lead. You will find an illustrated report and all the games
here.
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Chess – a matter of life and death
21.02.2003
– It wasn't Karpov, Kasparov or Deep Blue, but murderers, arsonists and other felons, all facing off against two inky-haired students, the top-rated players in Princeton University's chess club. The felons were all inmates at New Jersey State Prison, a maximum-security facility that houses the state's death row – and a thriving chess club of its own. Read about it in this
NYT article.
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15-year-old girl captain of men's team
21.02.2003
– Koneru Humpy,
Indian chess prodigy,
has been nominated as captain of India's second men's team at the Asian team
championship, to be held at Jodhpur from April 7 to 17. At 2496 Humpy is the
highest-rated player in the team and the chess federation decided to recognise
merit and give a boost to the young lady's self-confidence. Read about it in
this article in The
Hindu.
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Pictures from the press conference
21.02.2003
– We told you about it when the story broke: that FIDE is staging the match between Garry Kasparov and Ruslan Ponomariov in Buenos Aires from June 19 to July 7. Now we have received received pictures from the press conference in which This was announced by FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and Garry Kasparov announced the plans in Moscow on Tuesday.
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