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British
Chess Magazine : December 2005
Cover photo: Pentala
Harikrishna wins in Hoogeveen.
Essent
Hoogeveen - the annual Dutch four-player tournament was won
by the 19-year-old Indian prodigy Pentala Harikrishna while Vladimir
Baklan of Ukraine won the open. Steve Giddins
provides an on-the-spot report while Ian Rogers
annotates two key games.
Yoshiharu Habu: Games Genius - whilst
in Hoogeveen Steve Giddins met a famous
shogi professional from Japan who likes to try his hand at the 64-square
game. And he plays our game well enough to beat grandmasters.
4NCL - the new season of the British
Team League started in Birmingham, and the old firm
of Wood Green and Guildford-ADC faced a strong challenge to their
dominance.
Read the December 2005 new book
reviews
News
in Brief Chess Questions Answered Simagin (Part 3)
Guernsey Festival Karabakh International Games
Department: Sam Collins Quotes
and Queries (with Chris Ravilious)
Problem World (with David Friedgood)
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British
Chess Magazine : November 2005
Cover photo: new world
champion Veselin Topalov.
World
Championship - All the action from the FIDE tournament in
San Luis, Argentina. Topalov himself talks about his own amazing
performance, and there are comments from others players about the
new world champion. Ian Rogers was
on the spot for BCM.
Isle of Man - the Monarch Assurance
tournament was won by a US champion and a teenage star from Ukraine.
Some superb games! Ringside coverage from John
Saunders.
Simagin (Part 2) - Steve
Giddins continues his look back at the imaginative Soviet
grandmaster in this multi-part study.
Read the November 2005 new book
reviews
News
in Brief Letters to the Editor FIDE Ratings, October
2005 Quotes and Queries (with Chris
Ravilious) Endgame Studies (with John
Beasley)
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British
Chess Magazine : October 2005
Cover photo: Jonathan
Rowson retains the British Championship in the Isle of Man.
Staunton
Memorial - The third instalment of this prestigious invitation
tournament held at Simpsons in London. Winner Jonathan
Levitt annotates one of his games.
Simagin - Steve
Giddins has a look back at a highly creative, but sadly short-lived,
Soviet grandmaster of the post-war era, in a new series of articles.
Games Department - British Champion
Jonathan Rowson analyses his crucial
win against Chris Ward from the Smith and Williamson British Championship.
Those Old-Time Congresses - BCM Editor
John Saunders has a wander down memory
lane at the Marlow and Paignton Congresses.
Read the October 2005 new book
reviews
Igualada Masters The Kavalek File (with Lubosh
Kavalek) Chess Questions Answered (with Gary
Lane) News in Brief Letter to the Editor
Congress Diary: Thanet (with Colin Crouch)
Quotes and Queries (with Chris Ravilious)
Problem World (with David Friedgood)
Postcard from Belgrade (by Ian Rogers)
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British
Chess Magazine : September 2005
Cover photo: Arkadij
Naiditsch wins in Dortmund.
Dortmund
- Ian Rogers was at the ringside to
see the stunning surprise of this years big German tournament.
There were (at least) ten reasons why Arkadij Naiditsch couldnt
win in this exalted company. But win he did. Full coverage, games
and photos.
British Championship - the British
Chess Federation Congress crossed the water to Douglas in the Isle
of Man this year. Reigning champion Jonathan Rowson lost an early
game but he found his inspiration on the rest day for renewed efforts
in the second week.
Half a Century Ago - Steve
Giddins looks back at chess in the halcyon days of 1955,
when Vasily Smyslovs star was in the ascendant, Harry Golombek
won the British Champion and two future grandmasters were only babes
in arms.
Sam Collins Annotates... three superb
games from the Biel tournament and one from the Irish Championships.
Read the September 2005 new book
reviews
European Team Championships
Spot The Continuation Amsterdam Open (by Steve
Giddins) News in Brief Quotes and Queries (with
Chris Ravilious) Endgame Studies
(with John Beasley)
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British
Chess Magazine : August 2005
Cover photo: left to
right: Radjabov (2nd), Nisipeanu (1st), Aronian (3rd) at the European
Championships
Man
versus Machine - this must have been the worst drubbing dished
out at Wembley since the Hungarian footballers beat England 6-3
in 1953... Michael Adams lost ½-5½ to the ultimate
electronic grandmaster, HYDRA. All the games and ringside reaction,
with John Roycroft, Donald
Michie and British champion Jonathan
Rowson
European Individual Championship -
13 rounds of gruelling action in Warsaw led to a gripping finale.
Peter Wells got off to a good start, beating Loek Van Wely. Later
Sergey Karyakin challenged hard but Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu snatched
the title. All the action.
How to become a Strong Grandmaster
- how come Ukrainian chess is so strong? We decided the best man
to ask was the countrys most successful and dedicated coach
- Alexander Vaisman. Fascinating stuff.
Game of the Year 2004 - IM Maxim
Notkin ran a poll amongst the top grandmasters (including
Garry Kasparov) to find out which games they considered to be the
best played in 2004. Find out how they voted and then play through
a selection of the very best games - they are stunning!
Read the August 2005 new book
reviews
The Kavalek File (with Lubosh
Kavalek) Spot The Continuation European Women's
Championship News in Brief Quotes and Queries (with
Chris Ravilious) Problem World
(with David Friedgood) FIDE
Rating List, July 2005
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British
Chess Magazine : July 2005
Cover photo: Special
Ukrainian issue, guest editor GM Mikhail Golubev - Vasyl
Ivanchuk wins in Havana
Mtel
Masters - the first super-tournament of the post-Kasparov
era was a tremendous success for home player Veselin Topalov. Should
we now consider him the no.1 active player in the world? Only time
will tell. Guest editor Mikhail Golubev
reports from the ringside in Sofia.
New Chess Centres in Ukraine - Lviv,
Odessa and Kharkov were the heartlands of Ukrainian chess in the
old Soviet times, but the modern centres of chess power and development
are the smaller cities of Alushta and Kramatorsk. Our guest editor
gives us an illustrated lesson in Ukrainian chess geography, and
the people who helped to shape it.
Ivanchuk and Ponomariov - Mikhail
Golubev takes a look back at the earliest steps in chess
of the biggest names in current Ukrainian chess, and reveals the
details of a secret training match he played against the young FIDE
ex-world champion. Here you can download
all six games of the secret training match played in 1996
between Mikhail Golubev and Ruslan Ponomariov.
Interview with Sergey Karyakin - the
world's youngest ever grandmaster talks to Olena
Boytsun.
The Odessa File - Odessa on the Black
Sea has always enjoyed an important part in Ukrainian chess life.
In this article Valeri Beim writes
about two notable chess coaches from Odessa, while Mikhail
Podgaets pays tribute to his own coach, Ukrainian and Israeli
Champion, Yakov Yukhtman.
Bohatirchuk and Sakharov - Andrei
Yeremenko writes about two former stars of Ukrainian chess,
Feodor Bohatirchuk and Yuri Sakharov.
Milestone of Ukrainian Chess - The master Efim Markovich Lazarev
is a true patriarch of Ukrainian chess journalism. Here he overviews
the milestones of Ukrainian chess history, specially for BCM.
Vladimir Savon (1940-2005) -
Alexander Moiseenko remembers his late
coach, who sensationally won the USSR Championship in 1971.
Read
the July 2005 new book reviews
Spot The Continuation News in Brief
Quotes and Queries (with Chris Ravilious)
Endgame Studies (with John Beasley)
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British
Chess Magazine : June 2005
Cover photo: Emil Sutovsky
at the 4NCL
4NCL
- the British Team League never fails to provide exciting action
and cliff-hanging scenarios. Wood Green took the title in a nail-biting
climax, and there was a major battle to avoid relegation. Weve
a full report plus annotations from Alexei
Shirov and Ian Rogers.
Sigeman - those Scandinavian organisers
really know how to get the right mix for a grandmaster tournament.
Great chess from Timman, Sasikiran, Nakamura and others.
Jack Speigel Memorial - Danny Gormally
is the most improved player in British chess right now, and he showed
the others the way in Southend.
Read the June 2005 new book reviews
Bundesliga Play-Off Match The Kavalek File
(with Lubosh Kavalek) Gausdal
Coventry - Best Games (by Colin Crouch)
Vernon Dilworth Chess Questions Answered (with
Gary Lane) Are You a Chess Mastermind?
Spot The Continuation News in Brief Quotes
and Queries (with Chris Ravilious)
Problem World (with David Friedgood)
BCM Prize Competition
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British
Chess Magazine : May 2005
Cover photo: Vishy Anand,
Chess Oscar 2004
4NCL
- the penultimate weekend in this. years British Team League
season saw champions Guildford-ADC 1 and Wood Green 1 still neck
and neck. This, and all other promotion and relegation issues, seem
destined to go down to the wire. Full report
and pictures.
Melody Amber - in the post-Kasparov
age, Vishy Anand must rank as the new number one. He certainly looked
the part in the annual rapidplay/blindfold showdown.
Linares Quiz - vacancy: global chess
super-star. Must be prepared to perform with children and computers.
Try Ian Rogers Linares test to
see if you could fill the position.
Read the May 2005 new book reviews
European Union Championship, Cork
Dos Hermanas FIDE Ratings, April 2005 Welsh Championship
Coventry International Spot The Continuation
News in Brief 50 Years of Quotes and Queries Quotes
and Queries (with Chris Ravilious)
Endgame Studies (with John Beasley)
BCM Prize Competition
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British
Chess Magazine : April 2005
Cover photo: Garry Kasparov
retires after the Linares tournament
Linares
- Kasparovs
swan song (if that is what it was) must be judged a harmonious one,
but for a discord right at the end. Ian Rogers
reports on a watershed in chess history.
Kasparov Interview - The retiring world
no.1's first major interview after his shock announcement at Linares
was with the Guardian's Stephen Moss.
BCM has some exclusive extra chess-related
material from this interview which did not appear in the
newspaper version.
Games Department - 14-year-old David
Howell annotates two of his wins from the Jersey International,
which he won ahead of two Swedish GMs.
Read the April 2005 new book reviews
Aeroflot Open (with Lubosh
Kavalek) Varsity Match A Short History of BCM's
Editors Bermuda International Congress Diary (with
Colin Crouch) Spot The Continuation
News in Brief Chess Questions Answered (with Gary
Lane) Quotes and Queries (with Chris
Ravilious) Letters to the Editor Problem World
(with David Friedgood) BCM Prize
Competition
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British
Chess Magazine : March 2005
Cover photo: Peter Leko
wins Corus Wijk aan Zee
Corus
Wijk aan Zee -
Kasparov had to sit at home and watch from the sidelines with the
rest of us. But there was plenty to enjoy as Leko came through to
win in style. Ian Rogers reports.
Games Department - 18-year-old Thomas
Rendle is Englands fastest improving young player at
present. He presents two of his most recent games.
Gibraltar - there was a five-player
grandmaster pile-up on the Rock, but Danny Gormally flew to his
grandmaster title. Ian Rogers reports.
Read the March 2005 new book reviews
Amateurs Guide to Wijk aan Zee by Steve
Giddins
Spot The Continuation News in Brief 4NCL, January
Weekend Quotes and Queries (with Chris
Ravilious) Endgame Studies (with John
Beasley) BCM Prize Competition
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British
Chess Magazine : February 2005
Cover photo: Vladimir
Belov won the new-format Hastings tournament
Hastings
- it was a case
of out with the old and in with the new at the 80th Hastings. And
20 minutes extra on the clock for the Black players. 20-year-old
Vladimir Belov proved he was the best player in the tournament.
Full coverage of the annual congress.
Drammen - some of the worlds
top players, including Shirov, Nielsen, Korchnoi, Magnus Carlsen
and Luke McShane, spent the new year playing chess in Norway. Invigorating!
Hikaru Nakamura - sweet sixteen, and
already he is the US Champion, battling through ahead of a stellar
field. Then Hikaru Nakamura celebrated his 17th birthday by beating
Ukrainian wunderkind Sergey Karyakin. Annotations by Lubosh
Kavalek.
Read the February 2005 new book
reviews
News In Brief Spot The Continuation
Letters to the Editor FIDE Rating List, January 2005
Pamplona The Kavalek File Philip Stamma's Assyrian
Origin Quotes and Queries (with Chris
Ravilious) Problem World (with David
Friedgood)
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British
Chess Magazine : January 2005
Cover photo: Viktorija
Cmilyte won the top board gold medal at the Mallorca Women's Olympiad
Russian
Championship -
three Ks (Kramnik, Karpov and Khalifman) did not make it to the
starting line, leaving the field clear for K1 Kasparov. He
was the second oldest in the tournament but left the others standing.
Lubosh Kavalek and Ian
Rogers look at the games.
4NCL - Wood Green rang the changes
at the second weekend of the British Team Championship season. They
fielded seven top international women players in their first team,
plus one of their husbands to make up the numbers. Alexey Shirov.
You may have heard of him...
Womens Olympiad - England womens
team captain John Emms reports on the
womens event in Calvià, concentrating on the performances
of England, USA and China. Full report, games and statistics of
this great event.
Read the January 2005 new book
reviews
News In Brief Spot The Continuation
Essent Hoogeveen Congress Diary: Civil Service Congress
Quotes and Queries (with Chris Ravilious)
Endgame Studies (with John Beasley)
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British
Chess Magazine : December 2004
Cover photo: Vasyl Ivanchuk,
star of the Calvia Olympiad
Calvia
Olympiad - Sunny
Mallorca was the venue for the 2004 FIDE Olympiad. Ukraine emerged
from the shadow of their neighbours to beat Russia for the gold
medals. Meanwhile England men's team were having a torrid time.
All the action, games, reports and tables.
World Championship - we called it the
Farrago in Brissago last month, but things hotted up
towards the end. Vladimir Kramnik finally got his act together to
win the last game. But Leko missed some great chances. The remaining
six games are annotated.
Lausanne Young Masters - you have to
be an all-rounder to succed in modern tournaments. Luke McShane
needed rapidplay shoot-outs to win the semi-final in Lausanne, and
then some good endgame play to win the final.
Read the December 2004 new book
reviews
News In Brief Spot The Continuation
4NCL, September weekend Quotes and Queries (with Chris
Ravilious) Problem World (with David
Friedgood)
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British
Chess Magazine : November 2004
Cover photo: Ehsan Ghaem
Maghami of Iran is the new Manx Monarch
World
Championship -
the first instalment of the Farrago in Brissago: the
Kramnik versus Leko match is a mixture of the good, the bad and
the tedious. But it has had its moments. Ian
Rogers annotates a Marshall and Lubosh
Kavalek examines a tricky endgame.
Monarch Assurance - the Isle of Man
tournament continues to attract star names. This year Viktor Korchnoi
made the trip to this beautiful island. Lubosh
Kavalek has a close look at the attacking play of young English
IM Simon Williams. All the inside stories.
Philip Stamma - John
Roycroft pieces together all the known facts about the noted
18th century Arab player and compiler of early Find the Best
Move positions.
Read the November 2004 new book
reviews
News In Brief Spot The Continuation
European Club Cup Congress Diary: Paignton Congress (with
Colin Crouch) Chess Questions
Answered (with Gary Lane) Quotes
and Queries (with Chris Ravilious)
Endgame Studies (with John Beasley)
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British
Chess Magazine : October 2004
Cover photo: Jovanka
Houska at Simpsons, London
Staunton
Simpson - the second
Staunton Memorial was held once again in the palatial London haunt
of Howard Staunton and his chess rivals, Simpsons in the Strand.
Jovanka Houska found her close encounters of the grandmaster
kind rather testing.
Games Department - new British Champion
Jonathan Rowson provides in-depth analysis
of his games from the Smith and Williamson British Championship
at Scarborough. Fascinating stuff!
Biel Super-Grandmaster - English grandmaster
Luke McShane walked into an ambush. But nothing could break Alexander
Morozevichs momentum.
Philip Stamma - we know that the 18th
century translator, player and problemist came from Aleppo, but
precious little else is known about him. Enter chess sleuth
John Roycroft, who has ferreted out some nuggets of hitherto
unknown information. First of a two-part article.
Read the October 2004 new book
reviews
News In Brief Spot The Continuation
Chess Classic Mainz Congress Diary: Middlesex Open (with
Colin Crouch) Ukrainian Championship
Furness on Chess (Part 5) Quotes and Queries (with
Chris Ravilious) Problem World
(with David Friedgood)
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British
Chess Magazine : September 2004
Cover photo: Vishy Anand,
currently the world's best player
Dortmund
- chess is a simple
game. First, you draw the long games, play some blitz and
in the end Vishy Anand wins.
FIDE Knock-Out - the final, fateful
stages of the Tripoli event. New British champion Jonathan
Rowson looks at two of the Adams-Kasimdzhanov games.
Smith & Williamson British Championship
- there were no Commonwealth players in the field this year to take
the money, so the English grandmasters had the field to themselves.
Well, actually, no...
Scottish Championship - new champion
Jonathan Rowson annotates two of his
games
Read the September 2004 new book
reviews
News In Brief Spot The Continuation
Chess Questions Answered (with IM Gary Lane)
Harold Lommer (by Doug Betts)
Quotes and Queries (with Chris Ravilious)
Endgame Studies (with John Beasley)
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British
Chess Magazine : August 2004
Cover photo: Michael
Adams, finalist at the FIDE World Championship
FIDE
Championship -
the first four rounds are covered here in the first part of our
coverage of the 2004 FIDE Knock-Out in Tripoli. Thrills, spills,
all the fun of the fair, four different time controls but
was it really chess?
Paks - Viktor Korchnoi refuses to age
gracefully and let the youngsters beat him. There was a feast of
attacking chess at this tournament in Hungary.
Armenia
vs The World -
Iron Tigran Petrosian was commemorated at this star-studded
match tournament in Moscow as Armenia Plus took on the
world. Lubosh Kavalek annotates Rafael
Vaganians best game.
Read the August 2004 new book
reviews
Furness
on Chess (Part 4) Congress Diary: South Lakes by Colin
Crouch News In Brief Spot The Continuation
FIDE Ratings, July 2004 Women's World Championship
Quotes and Queries (with Chris Ravilious)
Problem World (with David Friedgood)
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British
Chess Magazine : July 2004
Cover photo: GM Dan
King of Guildford-ADC at the 4NCL, May 2004.
4NCL
- this years competition worked up to a splendid finale in
West Bromwich. Guildford-ADC had a memorable last-round clash with
Wood Green 1. Full report and games, with Grandmaster
Dan King annotating a superb win against prodigy David Howell.
Stalemate!
- Dan
King presents some astonishing and sneaky ways to make a
draw out of nothing. Once youve learnt a few tricks, try solving
his puzzle. Not easy!
Bosna Sarajevo - Alexei Shirov smoothed
his way to success in the traditional Balkans event, but English
grandmaster Nigel Short was unrecognisable.
Sigeman - this Scandinavian tournament
has a richly-deserved reputation for bringing together all the best
attacking players. GM Lubosh Kavalek
annotates Carlsen-Nielsen.
Read the July 2004 new book reviews
Furness
on Chess (Part 3) The Perils of Springtime by Colin
Crouch News In Brief Spot The Continuation
European Championship, Turkey Quotes and Queries (with
Chris Ravilious) Endgame Studies
(with John Beasley)
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British
Chess Magazine : June 2004
Cover photo: Marie Sebag
of France played impressively at the 4NCL, May 2004.
4NCL
- Guildford-ADC and Wood Green 1 remain neck and neck in the race
to win the British Team Championship. But their methods of raising
teams by importing top foreign players are beginning to rub off
on some of the other teams. Micro Markets NWE and Numerica 3Cs reaped
the rewards of rent-a-grandmaster in West Bromwich.
Full report and games.
Russian
Team Championship
- when Alexander Morozevich is hot, hes incandescent. Dont
miss his breath-taking finish against Bologan, which helped Tomsk
to the Russian team title in Sochi on the Black Sea.
Karpov Poikovsky - the Siberian sun
shone on Alexander Grischuk and Sergey Rublevsky in oil-rich Poikovsky
but whatever happened to Vladimir Malakhov?
Games Department - Jonathan
Rowson annotates his win with the Grünfeld Defence against
Colin Crouch at Oxford.
Read the June 2004 new book reviews
Furness
on Chess (Part 2) Congress Diary: Coventry International
by Colin Crouch News In Brief
Spot The Continuation BH Wood Remembered (by Bernard
Cafferty) Quotes and Queries (with Chris
Ravilious) Problem World (with David
Friedgood) Chess Oscars 2003
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British
Chess Magazine : May 2004
Cover photo: Alexandra
Kosteniuk wins the European Women's Championship
Reykjavik
Rapidplay - like
Waterloo, Reykjavik was a close-run thing for Garry
Kasparov. He started by nearly losing to 13-year-old Magnus Carlsen
and in the final nearly lost to his 1993 championship adversary,
Nigel Short. Ian Rogers was on the
spot.
Richard Furness
- one of the UKs top organizers and arbiters recounts some
stories of his long and successful career. Sadly, Richard Furness
has since died, but it is a mark of the man that he should leave
us with so many wonderful memories.
Read the May 2004 new book reviews
Melody
Amber Monaco European Women's Championship 4NCL, March
Weekend Edinburgh Congress by IM Craig
Pritchett The Student's Corner by Raaphi
Persitz Chess Questions Answered by Gary
Lane Welsh Championship News In Brief
Spot The Continuation Congress Diary: Blackpool by IM
Colin Crouch Quotes and Queries (with Chris
Ravilious) Endgame Studies (with John
Beasley) FIDE Rating List, April 2004
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British
Chess Magazine : April 2004
Cover photo: Vladimir
Kramnik & Manuel Illescas at Linares
Linares
- Vladimir Kramnik
didnt do much but he did it very well. Garry Kasparov
had more won positions but couldnt follow through.
And all those draws... was Linares 2004 a watershed for world chess
or a wash-out? Ian Rogers has
his own views...
Aeroflot
- wall-to-wall
grandmasters slugged it out in Moscow for a handsome prize fund
and a ticket to the Dortmund Super-Tournament. 13-year-old Magnus
Carlsen impressed again, and so did 52-year-old Rafael Vaganian.
But Sergey Rublevsky won.
Bermuda - we know the Brazilians are
the tops at football, but the best at chess? Giovanni
Vescovi scored a higher rating performance than Kramnik at
Linares when he won the Fourways International. And he is here to
tell BCM readers just how he did it
Read the April 2004 new book reviews
Gibraltar
Masters Varsity Match Perth & Kinross Congress
by IM Craig Pritchett News In
Brief Spot The Continuation Congress Diary: Portsmouth
by IM Colin Crouch Quotes and
Queries (with Chris Ravilious)
Problem World (with David Friedgood)
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British
Chess Magazine : March 2004
Cover photo: England
no.1 Mickey Adams at Corus Wijk aan Zee
Corus
Wijk aan Zee -
Vishy Anand won the Corus tournament for the second successive year,
but lost his six-year unbeaten record. Ian
Rogers was there to cover all the action, and see star-in-the-making
Magnus Carlsen really hit his stride for the first time.
The Persitz Double - it happened in the 1950s, when the trains
ran on time so it will probably never happen again. But what
exactly was the Persitz Double?
Mickey Adams - the English number one
was in good form in Wijk aan Zee. So, how does he prepare for super-tournaments?
Mickey answers the BCMs questions.
Read the March 2004 new book reviews
Hastings
Challengers The Kavalek File 4NCL, January weekend
News In Brief Spot The Continuation The Art
of Bluff by IM Colin Crouch
Quotes and Queries (with Chris Ravilious)
Endgame Studies (with John Beasley)
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British
Chess Magazine : February 2004
Cover photo: Scotland's
Jonathan Rowson is co-winner of the Hastings Premier
Hastings
- The Hastings
Congress got the British chess year to an excellent start for the
79th time. The two Premier winners hailed from Cyprus and Scotland.
Grandmaster Jonathan Rowson, the first
Scottish winner, has annotated two games for our enjoyment.
Kasparovs Great Predecessors - volume two of Garry
Kasparovs remarkable work on the world champions is already
a best-seller. BCMs editor reviews it in depth, and thoroughly
enjoyed Kasparov on Botvinnik... and Botvinnik on Kasparov.
Pamplona - Luke McShane takes his Christmas
break from university to head for north-west Spain and some top-class
chess. This small tournament had plenty of action.
Read the February 2004 new book
reviews
Frank
Parr remembered FIDE Ratings, Jan 2004 The Kavalek
File Australian Championship News In Brief
Spot The Continuation Congress Diary: London Open by IM
Colin Crouch Quotes and Queries (with Chris
Ravilious) Problem World (with David
Friedgood)
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British
Chess Magazine : January 2004
Cover photo: Harriet
Hunt, England women's no.1
Kasparov
v X3D Fritz - For
now we see through a glass, darkly... Kasparov blundered horribly
wearing his 3D goggles against Fritz but produced a classic anti-computer
crush in the next game. Report by GM Ian Rogers.
European Womens Team Championship - Russia seemed to
be cruising to victory but there was an extraordinary twist in the
tail. England board one IM Harriet Hunt
reports on the womens competition in Plovdiv.
Kasparov at the Cinema - the BCM Editor
turns film critic and assesses the Oscar-winning potential of the
worlds greatest chess player in a big documentary feature
on a screen near you in January.
Read the January 2004 new book
reviews
Cap
d'Agde World Rapidplay Prelate Power (Part 2) with FM
Steve Giddins Bali Benidorm Rapidplay News
In Brief Spot The Continuation Congress Diary: Oban
by IM Colin Crouch Quotes and
Queries (with Chris Ravilious)
Endgame Studies
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British
Chess Magazine : December 2003
Cover photo: Judit Polgar
wins at Essent Hoogeveen
Essent
Hoogeveen - GM
Ian Rogers travelled to the Dutch town famous for its glassware.
Judit Polgar won the tournament but Anatoly Karpovs reputation
as a tournament player suffered a shattering blow.
European Team Championship - this time the Brits were really
just there to make up the numbers, but the Russians were back in
style. The new scoring system meant that 2½-1½ was
good enough to win matches and that was the Russian plan.
GM Lubosh Kavalek has a look at Mamedyarovs
new idea in the Grünfeld.
Prelate Power - have you ever wondered
what to do about bishops? Steve Giddins
takes a look down the diagonal and shows how the grandmasters put
power in the prelate, in the first of two articles.
Read the December 2003 new book
reviews
4NCL,
October Weekend Chess Questions Answered with IM
Gary Lane Game of the Month News In Brief
Spot The Continuation Congress Diary: Glasgow by IM
Colin Crouch Letter to the Editor Quotes and
Queries (with Chris Ravilious)
Problem World
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British
Chess Magazine : November 2003
Cover photo: Garry Kasparov
receives the 2003 BCF Book of the Year Award from Ray Edwards
Monarch
Assurance - more
players and more grandmasters than ever. Dennis Hemsleys Isle
of Man International goes from strength to strength. The editor
was on the spot, to take pictures, soak up the atmosphere and enjoy
the Manx hospitality.
Euro Club Cup - titans and tourists travelled to sunny Crete
for this years European Club Cup. Garry Kasparov gave it his
seal of approval but one superstar doesnt make a super-team.
Some superb action from this reinvigorated team event.
Three Kings in China - three top grandmasters
travelled the length and breadth of China to take on the cream of
Chinas chess stars in some novel events. Fancy a game of mixed
doubles?
Read the November 2003 new book
reviews
The
Kavalek File by Lubosh Kavalek
News In Brief Spot The Continuation Congress Diary:
Leek by Colin Crouch Lausanne
Young Masters FIDE Ratings, October 2003 Quotes and
Queries (with Chris Ravilious)
Endgame Studies
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British
Chess Magazine : October 2003
Cover photo: Jon Speelman
wins at Simpsons in the Strand
Staunton
Memorial - grandmaster
chess returned to London, and its spiritual home at Simpsons in
The Strand, for a tournament that was small but perfectly formed.
Jon Speelman triumphed but Daniel King played the game of the tournament.
Hilton Premier - the British Champion playing chess in Britain?
Now theres a novelty. Blackpool played host to two all-play-all
internationals during the Lancashire Chess Festival and Colin
Crouch was there to report on the action.
Krasnoyarsk - 53 Russian grandmasters
made the 2,000 mile trip to Siberia for this years Russian
Championship. Peter Svidler won the tournament for the fourth time.
Incredible, really, especially since he was distracted by a cricket
match in London. Interview with Peter Svidler,
plus all the best games annotated.
Read the October 2003 new book
reviews
The
Kavalek File by Lubosh Kavalek
News In Brief Spot The Continuation French Championship
Games Department: Annotations by Keith
Arkell Assisted Suicide (Zugzwang) by Steve
Giddins Quotes and Queries (with Chris
Ravilious) Problem World (with David
Friedgood)
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British
Chess Magazine : September 2003
Cover photo: Viorel
Bologan wins in Dortmund
Dortmund
- numbers two, three and four in the world bite the dust in Dortmund.
The great summer heat in Germany is accompanied by the tournament
sensation of the year. Annotations by Ian
Rogers.
Flear on The Future - BCM interviewed English grandmaster
(and French resident) Glenn Flear and
asked some questions about how they do things sur le continent.
Oh la la! His answers were typically frank and to the point.
Smith & Williamson British Championship
- the last of the British-cum-Commonwealth Championships was held
in Edinburgh in July. And it was the Commonwealth that produced
the winner. Sam Collins annotates two
of his games.
Read the September 2003 new book
reviews
Chess
Questions Answered Biel Masters News In Brief
Spot The Continuation North Sea Cup Letters to the
Editor Endgame Studies
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British
Chess Magazine : August 2003
Cover photo: David Howell
playing on a giant-sized chess set at Somerset House
Ken
Whyld Remembered
- the doyen of chess historians and BCM's Quotes and Queries
columnist for 25 years died on 11 July 2003. He will be sorely missed.
We remember a man of many parts who had friends all over the world.
Enghien les Bains - the French spa town played host to a
strong international tournament. Adams and Bareev jousted for the
lead but the Russian just edged out the English grandmaster. Lubosh
Kavalek picks out his favourite game.
The Art of Chess - a prestigious chess
exhibition, a duel in the sun between two of the worlds top
chess prodigies, Sergey Karyakin and David Howell, and then a simultaneous
display. Great fun!
Read the August 2003 new book
reviews
European
Individual Championships FIDE Ratings, July 2003 News
In Brief Spot The Continuation The Kavalek File
Letters to the Editor Quotes and Queries Problem World
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British
Chess Magazine : July 2003
Cover photo: Giovanni
Vescovi reports from the Karpov International at Poikovsky in Siberia
Karpov
International -
the 4th Karpov International took place in Siberia. Brrr! But the
lineup was decidedly hot. Grandmaster Giovanni
Vescovi travelled all the way from Brazil to take part and
report for BCM. Plenty of top-class action.
Pirc 150 - it sounds a bit like a sports car. James
Vigus has a look under the bonnet and road-tests it
and finds that it is a lot more than a hotrod for speed merchants.
Whither The 4NCL? - Former 4NCL Events
Director Nigel Johnson questions some
recent initiatives in the organisation of Britains premier
team league.
Read the July 2003 new book reviews
News
In Brief Spot The Continuation Chess Questions Answered
The Kavalek File Congress Diary: Oxford Letters
to the Editor Bosna Sarajevo 4NCL: Divisions 2, 3
and 4 Round-Up Quotes and Queries Endgame Studies
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British
Chess Magazine : June 2003
Cover photo: Jessie
Gilbert of Perceptron Youth at the 4NCL
4NCL
- a double helping of the British Team Championship as Wood Green
1 cruise to an overwhelming (but not quite perfect) first championship
title.
Budapest - it was supposed to be a dress rehearsal for Peter
Leko to prepare for his match with Kramnik, but it turned out to
be a Hungarian Rhapsody for Englands Nigel Short. Ian
Rogers annotates the games, with help from Laszlo
Hazai and Peter Acs.
Yates Remembered - the second part
of Steve Giddins appreciation
takes the story of the great English chess player up to his tragic
and premature demise.
Read the June 2003 reviews
News
In Brief Spot The Continuation Gausdal Classics
Hansen versus McShane Congress Diary: Portsmouth Quotes
and Queries Problem World
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British
Chess Magazine : May 2003
Cover photo: Vishy Anand:
two big tournament successes in 2003 already
Melody
Amber - Vishy
Anand didn't win the rapidplay or the blindfold, but he still finished
overall winner of the annual novelty event held in Monte Carlo.
Fantasy Island - most of us know that the famous Lewis Chessmen
are to be found in London's British Museum - but do we really know
where they came from? Ken Whyld asks
questions about the circumstances of their discovery.
Yates Remembered - Frederick Yates
died 70 years ago last November. He is not remembered quite as well
as he might be. Steve Giddins considers
the chess career of the great Yorkshireman in the first of a two-art
appreciation.
The Kavalek File - US grandmaster Lubosh
Kavalek remembers his former compatriot Ludek Pachman who
passed away in March.
Read the May 2003 reviews
Chess
Questions Answered News In Brief Spot The Continuation
FIDE Ratings, April 2003 Letter to the Editor
Congress Diary: Yateley Quotes and Queries Endgame
Studies
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British
Chess Magazine : April 2003
Cover photo: Peter Leko
and Teimour Radjabov at the Linares tournament
Linares
- on-the-spot coverage, in-depth annotations of the games from the
supertorneo from Grandmaster Ian Rogers.
Ian wasnt playing in the tournament but he made its biggest
blunder telling Garry Kasparov which game he had voted for
in the brilliancy prize ballot... oh, and by the way, the tournament
was won by Peter Leko of Hungary.
Bermuda - the backdrop for this prestigious tournament is
an idyllic island in the Atlantic. Making his debut as a BCM contributor
is Brazilian grandmaster Giovanni Vescovi,
who outpaced Peter Svidler to win the tournament.
Kasparov v Deep Junior - Garry Kasparov
received $500,000 just for turning up to play the Israeli super-program
in New York and shared the remainder of the $1m purse with his digital
adversary. The match received huge publicity but the premature finish
of the last game was greeted with boos. Lubosh
Kavalek comments.
Read the April 2003 reviews
Gibraltar
Festival News In Brief Spot The Continuation
Varsity Match, Oxford v Cambridge Quotes and Queries
Problem World
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British
Chess Magazine : March 2003
Cover photo: Zhang Zhong
of China nearly eclipsed the super-grandmasters in Wijk aan Zee
Corus
Wijk aan Zee -
the great Dutch tournament represents a fixed point in a rapidly-changing
chess universe. Viswanathan Anand eclipsed two world champions,
while Zhang Zhong in the 'B' event threathened to eclipse everyone
with a stunning performance. Meanwhile, some uninvited (and unwelcome)
guests turned up to spoil Ponomariov's breakfast. All the chess,
and some of the politics, are covered by Grandmaster
Ian Rogers.
Hastings Challengers
- FM Steve Giddins covers the excellent
Challengers event at Hastings, where Danny Gormally won and chalked
up a grandmaster norm.
Arkell's
Grand Prix - Grandmaster
Keith Arkell tries to convince us that he won the UK Terence
Chapman Group Grand Prix by accident. We believe you, Keith...
Read the March 2003 reviews
Congress Diary (London Open 2002) News In
Brief Spot The Continuation 4NCL, January 2003 Weekend
Quotes and Queries Endgame Studies
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British
Chess Magazine : February 2003
Cover photo: Keith Arkell
- best English debut in the Hastings Premier in over 30 years
Hastings
Congress - full
coverage of the 78th Hastings Premier by FM
Steve Giddins. Peter Heine Nielsen won, Keith Arkell performed
excellently - but 12-year-old Sergei Karyakin all but stole the
show.
Bled Women's Olympiad
- coverage of the women's competition, with annotations by Harriet
Hunt. Full details of all the home countries' squads, medallists,
etc.
Kasparov
versus Karpov -in 3D! -
the two old adversaries met again for a four-game rapidplay encounter
in New York. Karpov exacted a measure of revenge for some of his
world championship reverses.
Read the February 2003 reviews
Chess Questions Answered Congress Diary
News In Brief Spot The Continuation FIDE Ratings,
January 2003 Quotes and Queries Problem World
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British
Chess Magazine : January 2003
Cover photo: Kasparov
makes an emphatic point to FIDE President at the Bled Olympiad
Bled
Olympiad - comprehensive
coverage of the Olympiad, with annotations by John
Emms, Luke McShane, Paul Motwani, Sam Collins and Leighton Williams.
FIDE's unpopular time limit caused a lot of problems but there was
still lots of excitement. Full details of all the home countries'
squads, medallists, etc.
4NCL
- the 2002/3 season opened at a new venue. Wood Green 1 have gathered
together a powerhouse squad this year. Can anyone stop them? A number
of young up and coming players put in som fine performances at Britain's
top team event.
Read the January 2003 reviews
Letters to the Editor Congress Diary
News In Brief Spot The Continuation Quotes and Queries
Endgame Studies
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