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Welcome to Istanbul!
01.06.2003 – The 4th European Championship has started in Istanbul and lasts from May 30 until June 14. The men's section has 164 GMs, 31 IMs – and one 13-year-old girl (guess who!). The prize sum is $192,000, in the women's section $44,000. We bring you information, links and lots of pictures of the participants at work and at play. |
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Action and pictures from Turkey
06.06.2003 – What is this lovely young lady doing, standing in the water in front of a racy speedboat? Participating in the 4th European Individual Championships in Silivri, Turkey, that's what. We bring you results (Aleksandrov leads in the men's section, Galliamova and Skripchenko among the women), games, links and lots of new pictures. |
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Meet the masters – at the board and at play
08.06.2003 – The European Individual Championships is under way in Silivri, Turkey. After eight rounds five players tied for first with six points each, followed by 17 with 5.5 points. We bring you all the games and necessary links to follow event, plus a set of great new action pictures directly from the tournament site in Turkey. Today we start with the men's section... |
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The Girls of Silivri
10.06.2003 – Meet the masters – yesterday it was the men's section of the European Individual Championships in Silivri, Turkey. Now by popular demand we bring you the women's section with 28 portraits of some of the finest female chess players Europe has to offer. You will admit that we will all have to abandon certain age-old prejudices we have held about chess-playing women. |
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'Another day for you and me in Paradise'
11.06.2003 – This morning we published an open letter sent to us by participants of the European Championships in Silivri, Turkey. A few hours later we received a message from the President of Turkish Chess Federation Ali Nihat Yazici: "I have read the news on the site today. Thank you for covering event. I attach a letter and would be glad if you publish this as an answer." Here it is... |
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Problems in Paradise
11.06.2003 – The reports and pictures we have been publishing from the 4th European Individual Championships in Istanbul, Turkey, have been quite idyllic. But there is trouble a-brewing. 187 participants have signed a letter of protest to the President of the European Chess Union and threatened to boycott the next event. Nigel Short puts it into perspective... |
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Great chess players at play
12.06.2003 – Two days ago we published a large number of pictures of the best male
and female
hard at work during the European
Championships in Silivri, Turkey. At the time we promised you a new set
of pictures, showing the participants at play. Well here they are, 32 new pictures
of Europe's finest, chess like you have never seen it before... |
