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Man vs Machine Team Championship starts
06.10.2004 – For the first time the ever fascinating encounter man vs machine in chess is being staged as a team championship. From October 6 to 10 a team of three strong grandmasters, Veselin Topalov, Ruslan Ponomariov and Sergey Karjakin, will face three of the strongest programs in the world, Hydra, Junior and Fritz – live on Playchess.com. Picture and video report.
 

Dannemann: A quick draw at halftime
06.10.2004 – Seven of the fourteen games of the classical chess world championship have been played, the last was a 21-move draw, coming after title holder Vladimir Kramnik surprised his challenger Peter Leko with an unusual move order in the Queen's Gambit Accepted. Leko did not feel at home in the new opening and went for the draw. Game, pictures and video report.
 

Chess in the City
04.10.2004 – What brings hundreds of New York chess fans to Central Park on a rainy October day? They are there to watch a game between two grandmasters, which children reinact on a giant chessboard. This is another great idea coming out of the Susan Polgar Foundation – one that even Governor George E. Pataki knows to appreciate. More...
 

Star-studded teams in Izmir
04.10.2004 – Did you know that there was a tournament under way, with 86 grandmasters, 38 rated over 2600? They include Kasparov, Morozevich, Adams, Shirov and a host of other top players. The event is the 2004 European Club Cup, which is being held in Izmir, Turkey. Here's all the information you need.
 

Dannemann: Game six drawn in 20
03.10.2004 – World championship challenger Peter Leko is definitely on the offensive. After winning game five to equalize the score today, with the black pieces, he surprised the incumbent Vladimir Kramnik with a pawn sacrifice on move 14. Kramnik demurred and, with a super-model watching, the game soon ended in a draw. Here's our report.
 

FIDE ratings: Kramnik under attack
03.10.2004 – For as long as many people can remember three players have dominated the FIDE rating list: Garry Kasparov has been leading for almost two decades; Anand and Kramnik have been following at a respectful distance. Now the latter's third position is under siege by two young players.
 

Fitting chess into a disabled life
03.10.2004 – Jamie Duif Calvin was an obsessive reader and an avid chess player, one the top 100 women in the US. But then disability struck, not as a graceful transition, but "more like falling overboard in the middle of the night into a dark, cold, choppy sea." However, thanks to modern computer technology she has taken up chess again. Here is Duif's story.
 

Playchess lectures with Alterman and Monokroussos
02.10.2004 – Lecture time on Playchess.com. On Sunday GM Boris Alterman presents a great weapon against the King's Gambit: the Falkbeer Counter Gambit. Monday night Dennis Monokroussos shows us a fine attacking game by Artur Jussupow. Don't miss them...
 

Dannemann: Peter Leko catches up
02.10.2004 – After getting nothing in two 1.e4 games, challenger Peter Leko switched to 1.d4 and a quiet line of the Queen's Gambit, something that the title defender Vladimir Kramnik likes to play. Going into the ending a pawn up Leko showed fine form to win the game and equalize in this championship. Video report now up.
 

Database basics - part 6
01.10.2004 – In the latest ChessBase Workshop, we explain the purpose of "medals" used to mark games of special interest and show how to search for them using Fritz8. Read all about it here. Workshop...
 

Dannemann: A bungy jump in Brissago
30.09.2004 – Not by the players, by secret agent James Bond, who took the plunge in the spectacularly beautiful landscape around the world championship site. In the match itself game four ended in a hard-fought 43-move draw, after Peter Leko pressed for a win and almost lost to title defender Vladimir Kramnik. Now with a full video report.
 

Danish Attacks by Jacob Aagaard
30.09.2004 – Danish IM Jacob Aagaard’s two-disc ChessBase traing course, Attacking Chess, is the subject of an indepth review. "Aagaard has created a terrific course," writes Derek Grimmell. "There are a number of works available on the subject, but this set is probably better than most for sheer instructive value." Here's the full review on ChessCafe.com.