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Chess is child's play
11.06.2003
– That's what USA Today thinks, after looking at our children's chess
teaching software Fritz
and Chesster. "This software has an amazing amount of depth and is
presented in a progressive manner," writes USA Today reviewer Jinny Gudmundsen,
who gives the package five stars (out of five). Here's
the report.
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What a mess! – says Vishy Anand
10.06.2003
– "The chess world can't go on like this, the situation is a complete mess,"
says world number three Vishy Anand in Hindustan
Times and redif.com
interviews. "Because of the prevailing world economic condition it is tough
to get sponsors and still people are trying to hold three World championship
matches. The last three years was a circus." Anand also speaks about drug testing.
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The Girls of Silivri
10.06.2003
– Meet the masters – yesterday it was the men's section of the European Individual Championships in Silivri, Turkey. Now by popular demand we bring you the women's section with 28 portraits of some of the finest female chess players Europe has to offer. You will admit that we will all have to abandon certain age-old prejudices we have held about
chess-playing women.
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Ponomariov outlasts Topalov in León final
09.06.2003
– It wasn't chess for the highlight reel but somehow his nerves were enough for Ruslan Ponomariov to pick up the winner's check. The Ukrainian FIDE champ won the final match when Veselin Topalov melted down in time pressure and let his flag fall with a repetition on the board. Diagrams and analysis of Topalov's missed opportunity plus photos
here.
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Meet the masters – at the board and at play
08.06.2003
– The European Individual Championships is under way in Silivri, Turkey. After eight rounds five players tied for first with six points each, followed by 17 with 5.5 points. We bring you all the games and necessary links to follow event, plus a set of great new action pictures directly from the tournament site in Turkey. Today we start with the
men's section...
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Where is Saddam?
08.06.2003
– Bush and Rumsfeld don't seem to know, the US and British forces have combed
Iraq in vain for the reclusive dictator. But why is it a news
subject for this site? Well, because a chess grandmaster has proposed a daring
theory in a national British newspaper. According to Raymond Keene, OBE,
Saddam, who shares an old friendship with FIDE President Ilyumzhinov,
may be hiding out in the third castle from the right in the chess city
of Elista.
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Favorites into León final after Ponomariov cruises
08.06.2003
– Ukrainian FIDE champ Ruslan Ponomariov continued his domination of Spaniard Paco Vallejo by routing him in their semifinal match 3.5-0.5. This set up a final of favorites between Topalov and Ponomariov. The good news for Vallejo is that he now has something in common with Spassky and Karpov.
Report and games
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A hand for Topalov
07.06.2003
– They've put away the computers in León, Spain, and the only thing advanced are your feelings of age when you look at the face of 13-year-old GM Sergey Karjakin. The "advanced chess" experiment might be over but the Ciudad de León tournament is still going strong with this 16th edition. Topalov, Ponomariov, Vallejo, and Karjakin play.
Report and games
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Learn from the champions
06.06.2003
– How about some tactical training over the Whitsun weekend? We will make it
very easy for you: 16 entertaining tactical problems taken from the European
Championship in Instanbul. There is even a PDF file which you can
print out and take into the garden or on a picnic. The solutions will be supplied
on Tuesday. Go for it...
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Action and pictures from Turkey
06.06.2003
– What is this lovely young lady doing, standing in the water in front of a racy speedboat? Participating in the 4th European Individual Championships in Silivri, Turkey, that's what. We bring you results (Aleksandrov leads in the men's section, Galliamova and Skripchenko among the women), games, links and
lots of new pictures.
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Susan Polgar – Grandmaster of the Year
05.06.2003
– The four-time Women's World Chess Champion Susan Polgar has just been named "Grandmaster of the Year" by the United States Chess Federation. This is the first time in history that a woman has won this most prestigious award. Susan is also to lead the US women's team at the next Olympiad. Here is the full story and some personal
pictures from the past.
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It's raining awards and prizes!
04.06.2003
– Our top programs are doing pretty well out there in the media scene. Europe's biggest computer magazine gave Fritz 8 the top place for board game software (Shredder 7 came in second), and the Bologna Children's Book Fair gave Fritz & Chesster the top children's media prize.
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