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Isolating a piece – part 2
15.10.2003
– Did you attend last week's lecture on isolating a piece? This Thursday our Playchess.com chess trainer Dorian Rogozenko tells you how to cut off your opponent's pieces from the main battlefield.
Here are the details...
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Looking back at Crete
15.10.2003
– The 2003 European Clubs Cup in Crete is over, the players have returned to their many native countries. Our correspondent Anna Dergatschova was there as a reporter and, once back in Germany, sent us a new set of pictures from this exciting tournament.
We share them with you.
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Analysing with Garry Kasparov – the readers reply
14.10.2003
– In our Analysis Focus #1 GM Karsten Müller led the first session on a game from Kasparov's book "My Great Predecessors": Bird-Morphy, London 1858, p.38. There have been many interesting contributions by our readers. Would you like to
join the debate?
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Top players and tournaments to watch
13.10.2003
– This may seem like a time of chess calm, but don't be deceived. Most of the world's top players are out there, busy battling it out in tournaments that are currently being held in Denmark, Holland and Bulgaria. We bring you
games, results and links.
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Mobile phone to g2, mate!
13.10.2003
– A new page in the colorful history of chess was written on Saturday when for the first time a player was disqualified at a representative event when his mobile phone rang during the game. This misfortune did not befall any ordinary player; the miscreant was none other than Ruslan Ponomariov, reigning FIDE world champion.
More...
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Judit strikes with the Lasker sacrifice
13.10.2003
– On the first day of the Essent Chess Tournament in Hoogeveen, the Netherlands, the most aggressive player in the "Crown Group" (with Judit Polgar, Ivan Sokolov, Anatoly Karpov and Levon Aronian) struck out against the most experienced one with a classical Lasker sacrifice on h7.
Here's the story...
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First Samba Cup, Skanderborg, Denmark
12.10.2003
– The First Samba Cup is being held fro October 10 to 19 in Skanderborg, Denmark. It is a category 16 with stars like Ivanchuk, Short and Bologan. We bring you
games, results, pictures and links.
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Deadly threats
12.10.2003
– George Renko, author of Intensive Tactics Course and Killer Moves, has done it again with a new ChessBase tactical training CD: Deadly Threats. Check out a preview in this week's
ChessBase Workshop ...
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Arnie meets a friend
11.10.2003
– On Tuesday Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger was elected California's new governor, replacing incumbent Grey Davis. The Austrian-born body builder and Hollywood action star (Terminator, Predator, Total Recall, Running Man, Conan) becomes the head of the world's fifth largest economy. So can you figure out why all of this is of interest on a chess newspage?
You will never guess...
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Plaskett's puzzle resolved
10.10.2003
– In last
week's puzzle we told the story of the Brussels GM tournament in 1987, where
British GM Jim Plaskett showed us a remarkable position which nobody was able
to solve – except for Mikhail Tal, who worked it out during a walk in
the park. We received a large number of letters and some new information on
this incredible endgame study.
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ChessBase in Slashdot
09.10.2003
– Once again Slashdot, the gigantic discussion forum for technophiles, is running
a debate on one of our stories. If you have strong opinions about Jeff
Sonas' article on Man vs Machine go to the Slashdot
forum to debate the subject and vent your feelings.
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Isolating a piece
09.10.2003
– Everybody knows about isolated pawns, but less known is the concept of playing against a piece, usually knight or bishop, but sometimes even the queen, until it is completly isolated. Our Playchess.com chess trainer Dorian Rogozenko tells you how to go about it.
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