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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.
Our GM reports first appear
on our Message
Board.
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:
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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.
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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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