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Yuri Dokhoian
Yuri Dokhoian was born in the Altai region of Russia
in 1964. He began playing chess while still a young child and enrolled in a Moscow
chess school at the age of eleven. After finishing school in 1982, he entered the Moscow Physical Institute. Dokhoian became a chess grandmaster in 1988.
The following is a brief summary of Dokhoian's tournament record as a grandmaster:
1988: | Plovdiv - 1st place Erevan - 3rd place Sochi - 3rd place
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1989: | Wijk aan Zee - 1st place |
1992: | Berliner Sommer - 1st place |
1993: | Godesberg - 1st place Lublin - 1st place Munster - 1st place
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Frederick A. Friedel
Frederick A. Friedel studied philosophy, mathematics and
linguistics in Hamburg and at Oxford. After a brief university career he became a
science journalist on German television, specializing in computers and artificial
intelligence. He is the editor of a magazine on computer chess and has staged a
number of world computer chess championships. He has also written a standard
textbook on the subject in German.
In 1987 he founded the software company ChessBase, which produces a chess
database system used by virtually all professional chess players. The company is
also responsible for the popular chess playing program Fritz. For many years Frederick has been a close personal friend and advisor of Garry Kasparov and many of the world's leading players. He is married and has two children.
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Interview:Garry Kasparov's thoughts on the match, on the future of chess-playing computers and the psychology behind the game.
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Classic matches:The stories behind some of Kasparov's most engaging matches
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Kasparov FAQ:What you want to know about the greatest player in history
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How he works:Get inside the head of the World Champion as he plots his next move
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1997 FIDE Rating List:How Kasparov ranks against the rest of the chess-playing world
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the team behind the technology:"Kasparov, in addition to the intuition and the strong evaluation capabilities that he has, is able to learn and adapt very quickly. We have to be able to deal with that." - Murray Campbell, Deep Blue development team
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Chess Pieces no. 4
George Koltanowski played 56 consecutive games blindfolded in 1960. He won 50 and drew the other 6.
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