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ChessBase Magazine 98 Reviewed By Prof. Nagesh Havanur
The patzer is the underdog of the chess world. Confronted with champions of the game he is easily awed and crushed over the board. Alexander Huzman, an experienced GM from Israel, is no patzer. Yet when he sat down to play Garry Kasparov at the last European Club Championship, the result appeared to be a foregone conclusion. Fortunately for him, Caissa intervened and the tide turned…..
While this game appears without any commentary in the CD under review, many others are richly annotated, like the following performance:
CBM 98 offers several creative efforts by relatively little-known grandmasters. A case in point is the following TN discovered in a well-known line of the Grünfeld Defence:
The 56th Russian Championship was won by Peter Svidler ahead of Alexander Morozevich who has had a wonderful season. (Ed- See the game Popov-Svidler 2003 in IM Andrew Martin's Bits and Pieces column.) He led the NAO Chess Club( France) to victory at the EU Cup, Rethymnon. He also led Russia to victory at the European Team Championship, Plovdiv. The CD includes games from all these major events. Besides, there are games from Cap d’Agde and Corsica rapid tournaments (both won by Anand). The total tally is a staggering figure of 2410 games! Most of these games have excellent notes. However, a little care should be taken to edit the language of these annotations, especially when the commentator is not too familiar with English usage. Similarly, indiscriminate use of Informant symbols should be checked and avoided. A few words would illumine the whole game instead of a thicket of variations. This brings us to the other half of the CD, especially, openings. There is a brief survey on 2.Ne2 line of Sicilian (B20) by Bangiev at the end of the games database. The regular feature on Semi-Slav Defence ( D43-D49) by GM Christopher Lutz offers a critical survey with 9 annotated games. Unfortunately, this time the article in German has not been translated into English. The main section on Theory has eight texts on openings with select databases by acknowledged experts in the field:
The multimedia report carries an interview with GM Yasser Seirawan on the Kasparov vs X3D Fritz match. The section on Strategy continues GM Peter Wells’ series on Material Imbalances, dealing with Rook vs Two Minor Pieces. The Telechess section offers 4182 correspondence games from recent tournaments. It also carries reports and announcements on ICCF events. The 16th ICCF World Championship was won by Tunc Hamarat with the remarkable score of 11/15 points. Hamarat has also held an astonishing record-he has not lost a single correspondence game with the White pieces in the last 40 years! Recommended
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