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Chess champs Bobby Fischer and Magnus Carlsen on 60 Minutes
17.02.2012
– This Sunday the very influential CBS TV news magazine 60 Minutes will be turning its eyes or rather: lenses on chess, with a segment concentrating on the exploits and personality of Magnus Carlsen. To get people in the mood they are streaming a "60 Minutes Rewind" of a report produced in 1972 on the upcoming match between Boris Spassky and challenger Bobby Fischer.
Don't miss it!
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ICGA/Rybka controversy: Feedback
17.02.2012
– The recent interview with David Levy, President of the International Computer Games Association, has generated a lot of feedback from our readers and continues to do so. We will publish a selection of this feedback next week. For now we bring you three messages from directly involved parties, including Levy himself, who has initiated
an investigation against a second program.
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Kavalek in Huffington: Chess in Clouds of Smoke
17.02.2012
– During a game in Wijk aan Zee, played in a cloud of cigarette smoke in 1969, Dutch GM Jan Hein Donner made a major discovery in the Najdorf Sicilian. It lay dormant for over forty years, but then emerged in a slightly altered form in the games of the young Chinese woman grandmaster, Ju Wenjun, 21. GM Lubos Kavalek reports, and provides us with
interesting links to chess novelties.
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Bojkov: Try the Sicilian Kalashnikov
17.02.2012
– Openings DVDs come in a wide variety of types and range from those that try to give only the broadest ideas with a minimum of theory, while others seem like the recitation of a section of an openings encyclopedia. Albert Silver explains why he feels that GM Dejan Bojkov has managed to strike just the right balance between the two, without sacrificing quality.
A personal review by Albert Silver.
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Xtreme Chess Championships Reality TV show
16.02.2012
– Reality TV is more alive than ever, with competitions ranging from the best designer to toughest trucker. One would think that our beloved game might be a tough sell, since it is not necessarily the most visually compelling, right? Not if you ask Jennifer Shahade, Greg Shahade, and Daniel Meirmon who strive to break the austere nerdy image with their brainchild
Xtreme Chess Championships.
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Aeroflot Open Mateusz Bartel comes out on top
16.02.2012
– It was a remarkably tight finish with Polish GM Mateusz Bartel, Anton Korobov, and Pavel Eljanov all tied with 6.5/9. The Polish GM took first on tiebreak, and earned an entry into Dortmund. Turkish GM Emre Can won B with a full point lead, but the story was a young 12-year-old Chinese boy, FM Wei Yi, who nearly scored a GM norm with a 2551 performance.
Final report.
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CBM 146 'a wonderful product'
15.02.2012
– "As usual, ChessBase Magazine offers a huge amount of material on diverse aspects of chess," writes Shaun Marsh in his chess blog. He picks out moments from the games of the London Chess Classic and the Tal Memorial, praising the style and humour of commentators like Carlsen and Kramnik "a refreshing change from the 'I was winning all the way through' type".
Review.
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CBM training: Endgames from Aeroflot Moscow
15.02.2012
– The Aeroflot Open is in its final stages, with over one hundred full-blown
GMs participating, half a dozen rated over 2700. It is clear that the tournament
would produce exciting games, and especially rich pickings for our endgame expert
GM Karsten Mόller, whom you know from ChessBase
Magazin. Karsten has picked three instructive endings for you to study.
Learn and enjoy.
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2011/12 4NCL or Four Nations Chess League
15.02.2012
– The 4NCL is the foremost team competition in the United Kingdom, and is open to all teams from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. From modest beginnings in 1993 with the participation of only six teams, the league now boasts three divisions with no fewer than 75 teams plus a recently inaugurated junior 4NCL league which already consists of eighteen teams.
A bit of history and report.
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Carlsen: Candidates format great, schedule 'surprising'
13.02.2012
– In 2010 Magnus Carlsen, the world's top ranked player, dropped out of the World Championship cycle, criticizing its format. Now that FIDE has announced an eight-player double round robin the Norwegian will participate. But why, Magnus asks, do they have to stage the Candidates in the middle of the high season for chess tournaments? Interview and video of an
exciting TV blitz game.
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Aeroflot 2012 Korobov leads, Caruana recovers
13.02.2012
– Anton Korobov is in the lead, with 5.0/6 points. The Ukrainian GM stopped Fabiano Caruana in round four, but the young US/Italian star has since fought his way back into equal second place and will now be eying the top spot. Fabiano's performance is 2831 and in the current rating period he has already gained 33 points to reach seventh place in the world.
Report after round six.
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Lilov: Gambit Opening Repertoire
13.02.2012
– Are you getting to old for feverish pace of gambit openings? Although as he aged Steven Dowd started looking for a more sedate opening repertoire he simply could not quite give up his youthful affinity for openings where you "sacrifice a pawn, then some pieces, and mate!" Steven gives the latest Fritztrainer DVD by Valeri Lilov, Gambit Opening Repertoire, an evaluation of "great":
five out of six stars.
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