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Updated 31 March 2001
Unfortunately, due to funding difficulties, the Mind Sports Zine has not been updated since April 2001. Thank you for your interest.

Melody Amber:
Full coverage of the traditional Monaco festival of rapid and blindfold chess. Topalov and Kramnik share first in photo-finish. Updated 31 March

World Rapid Cup:
FIDE's premier rapid event - Kasparov downs Bareev comfortably in final. Updated 25th March

Linares: Kasparov faces rivals - old and new
A slightly weaker, but colorful field in this Spanish classic.
Round one: Three bruising draws, Karpov impresses.
Round two: Three boring draws, Polgar holds Garry.
Round three: Three solid draws, Kasparov presses.
Round four: Kasparov and Polgar take lead.
Round five: Kasparov breaks clear.
Round six: Kasparov widens gap.
Round seven: Kasparov, Polgar trade blows; Grischuk sends Karpov to cellar.
Round eight: Another Kasparov win, Karpov strikes back.
Round nine: Kasparov clinches first, Grischuk wins again.
Round ten: Kasparov three points clear, all others under 50%!

Kasparov Marches to Victory
No longer champ but still Number One in Wijk aan Zee.

Kramnik defeats Leko
Vladimir Kramnik showed his class in Budapest.

World Chess Championship
Anand beats Shirov in four in the Fide World Chess Championship final! Final info and results.
GM Jonathan Tisdall reports:
Our GM reports first appear on our Message Board.

GM Einar Gausel 
annotates:
Results of previous prediction contests:

Chess in Japan
How does Chess fare in the Land of Shogi? FM Akira Watanabe reports.

Gelfand Answers Kasparov
Read the open letter that Boris Gelfand wrote in answer to Garry Kasparov.

Groningen to host 2001 Euro Champs
The Dutch town of Groningen continue their high class chess tournament organizing traditions next year.

34th Chess Olympiad
Russia Win the Olympiad
The favourites Russia cruised to victory in the 34th Chess Olympiad in Turkey. All reports.

Kasparov vs. Kramnik
Kramnik dethrones Kasparov!
Garri Kasparov fails to win even one game in the BrainGames Chess World Championships.
GM Einar Gausel annotates games 12 11 10 9 8 6 4 3 & 2


Interview: Banned but unbowed
Journo John Henderson was expelled from the Kasparov-Kramnik match. Background and London backstage rumours.

Sicilian Carnage in Biel

In the recent super-tournament in Biel, Black scored 45% in the overall statistics, which is relatively normal, but in the Open Sicilian the second player only managed a depressing 36% out of 11 games. Find out why, as Einar Gausel annotates four Sicilians from Biel.

Recent Reports:

Khalifman Dominated Essent Chess
Hoogeveen hosted "Essent Chess", a tournament of "contrasts". Polgár, Timman, Khalifman and Galkin competed.

Grischuk Wins in Tórshavn
Faroe Islands hosted a strong tournament where two players rose above the rest.

Short Beats Bacrot
Nigel Short defeated the Frenchman Etienne Bacrot in a 6-game match of the former child prodigies.

Alexei Shirov Sues WCC
The Spanish GM Alexei Shirov is not thrilled about the current K-K championship match. Find out why.

Georgiev Wins in Belgrade
Bulgarian Kiril Georgiev won the Veselin Boskovic Memorial that took place in Belgrade during the election hassle.

Three-way Tie in Seattle
Benjamin, Shabalov and Seirawan shared victory in the US Championships in Seattle.

Shredder Challenges Kasparov
Computer chess world champion SHREDDER has issued Garry a challenge for the "Absolute World Chess Championship".


Polgár, Bologan Take Najdorf
Miguel Najdorf (in left photo) Chess Festival was won by Judit Polgár and Viktor Bologan.
FIDE Zonal fun starts
Joel Lautier dominated the World Championship Zonal tournament in Spain. Three players shared victory in Iceland.


Anand Dominates World Cup
Viswanathan Anand won the Fide World Cup in China. Second game of the final match.

MSO Singapore
Wu wins in Singapore. View the games that were broadcast live.

Chess News in Brief
Sargissian wins Armenian championsips.

Gelfand Takes the Rubinstein Memorial

All final round games were drawn, so Boris Gelfand takes victory in the surprising Polanica Zdroj tournament.


MSO Ron Banwell Tournament
Danny Gormally wins. Full report.

Chess News in Brief
Deep Blue's 1576800 minutes of fame. Bacrot is French champion. Tkachiev beats Nisipeanu.



The Daily News
for 31st March


Today's top stories

Deep Shredder vs. the World
Fight the computer world champion and win prizes!



Chess Polls:


New! Millennium Poll!

Previous polls:
4 November

Kasparov is still strongest
31 October
Kramnik will draw twice and win the match
30 October
Kasparov's losses baffle
29 October
Kramnik should face Shirov
24 October
Kramnik will win the match

Chess Book Reviews
New reviews: The Most Amazing Chess Moves of All Time by John Emms + 2 other new books.

Feature stories:

Chess in full color!
Enjoy the witty and beautiful chess cartoons of Jovan Prokopljevic, the world famous Yugoslav chess artist.

Shogi, Chess and
Life in General

Chess Grandmaster Joel Lautier speaks out on his meeting with top Shogi players, the mess in chess and what makes him tick.

Popular Chess Variants
Paul Smith writes about popular chess variants: Progressive Chess, Hexagonal Chess, Circular Chess, Gothic Chess, and Bughouse.

Firestorm Over Fritz in Dutch Championship
A firestorm of controversy erupted over the decision to allow the computer program Fritz to compete in the 2000 Dutch Championship.

Tax Tiff Fractures Philippine Chess
A squabble over taxes opened a rift between the Philippines' top chessplayers and the Philippine Chess Federation.

US Chess in Decay
Stephen Leary takes a sad look at the rot eating away at one of the world's supposedly leading chess federations.

Cambridge Holds Off Oxford
Cambridge struggled to victory against a game and outranked Oxford team that almost pulled off the upset of the century.

Linares 2000
Coverage of the supertournament of the year.

Mystified?:
Can't figure out what went wrong in your last game? Do you find expert commentary about as enlightening as a binary phone book? Ask resident Grandmaster Einar Gausel, who will field reader questions in plain English.


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