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(9/18)
Inside Susan Polgar's
World Records: From beginning to end, Susan & Paul Truong
bring you the inside scoop. The planning. The preparation.
The training. The people. The records. Also read the
open letter from the previous record holder, IM Andrew Martin,
questioning the records, along with Susan & Paul's responses. |
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(9/18)
Annotated Game: ICCF-IM Keith Hayward's update to his (now)
six-part look at the Balogh Counter-Gambit features the reigning US
Champion, Hikaru Nakamura playing at the HB Global Chess Challenge
earlier this year. Keith writes, "I did not plan on writing an update to the Balogh
Counter Gambit series, but some misfortune of my own allowed me to
observe the game below. I was having a bad tournament
at the HB Global Chess Challenge, and I decide to withdraw from the last
tournament to watch the top boards. I was shocked to walk by the US Champion's game and see
him playing the Balogh Counter Gambit!"
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 (9/18)
Euro Gallery Live Art:
"We believe that the topic of Chess is very much neglected in the World
of Art. For this reason Euro Gallery Live Art, together with an
International Artist, have created an exhibition of a series of ‘Chess’
related works. These paintings will be shown ‘live’ over the World
Wide Web per daily upload. We cordially invite all Chess Players,
Enthusiasts and friends of the game Worldwide to view and experience
this extraordinary Event..." |
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(9/18)
Chess Samizdat is a new portal which offers free syndicated
chess content to the world via JS and RSS feed. From time to time
Chessville will bring you articles from this great new community chess
resource courtesy of
John C. Knudsen's and the author's generosity. Write's John: "Welcome
to Chess Samizdat, the portal for free syndicated chess content
on the world-wide web. Authors can submit their chess articles
here. Webmasters, E-Zine editors and other publishers can obtain
the javascript code to run the syndicated articles which are located
here. Or, just use the RSS feed.
The general public can obtain the content by subscribing with their
RSS Reader software." Now, for our
first article from
Chess Samizdat, we present you with a familiar face... |
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 (9/18)
Chess Fiction: Holdout!
by NM Dan Heisman. "Josh Jokim was very upset.
Apparently, his team didn't think as highly of previous year's
contribution as he did, at least judging from their "final" salary
offer. Josh thought he had done rather well for a rookie, but he now
regretted signing only a one year contract. Not that it had been a bad
contract for a first round draft choice: $1,200,000 bonus and a $82,000
salary with fringe benefits, including $25,000 for making the team and
playing over half the matches. He was glad that they didn't send
him down to the farm system, because in the Big Leagues everything is
first class. Besides, who wants to go on a nine hour bus ride to play
the Akron Fianchettoes? And how many first-year players get to crack the
starting lineup of a National Chess League team, even if it was the
woeful Philadelphia Woodpushers?"
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(9/17)
Alekhine's Parrot:
Welcome to the
weekly leader of chess events around the world.
Chessville welcomes your Feedback to TheParrot on
this week’s news where selected letters will be featured.
This week: Institutions of Learning & Institutions.
Championships, and more!
TheParrot Squaawks about
the Internet College Chess League.
Read yesterday's headlines in
TheParrot's Archives.
Read last week's
Squaawk. |
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(9/17)
Nuestro Círculo #162:
10 de septiembre de 2005, este número de "Nuestro Círculo"está dedicado al
notable Maestro Alemán Ludwig Paulsen que vivió entre los años 1833 y 1891.
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
español.
(9/16)
Chess Word Search Puzzle: Love
your word-search puzzles, do you? Then you're sure to enjoy this one,
constructed especially for all you chessophiles out there!
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(9/15)
2005
Kavala Rapid: Reported by
IM Jovan Petronic. On
September 10-11, 2005, the traditional 4th open rapid (20'+10")
tournament "Kavala 2005" was held in Kavala, Greece. The winner,
12 years old
Ilias Kazantzidis, scored a 100%
result, outplaying much stronger ranked opponents! IM Petronic
annotates one of Ilias' victories in
this illustrated report.
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(9/14) Fall Tourney:
The ICCL is now recruiting teams for the 2005-2006 season. Last
year they were able to restart this league with a handful of dedicated
university teams. At least three masters and plenty of experts
were involved in exciting internet matches. This year, we're
looking to expand the league and attract a larger range of teams.
Learn more here. |
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(9/14)
Tourney Report: GM Alexandra Kosteniuk Wins the 2005
Golden Blitz Tournament in Moscow, convincingly defeating in the semi-finals ex-world
champion Zhu Chen 2-0 and in the finals Almira Skripchenko 2-0.
The event saw two very strong knockout blitz tournaments, a men's event
with 8 players, and a women's event with 4 participants. The event
included A.Grischuk, E.Bareev, A.Motylev, P.Tregubov (all – Russia),
N.Short (UK), R.Ponomariov (Ukraine), V.Tkachiev (France), Y.Pelletier
(Switzerland), and A.Kosteniuk (Russia), Zhu Chen (China), A Skripchenko
(France), I.Krush (USA). For more about this event -
click here. |
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(9/11)
Claude Bloodgood Part One:
The latest installment in Robert Tuohey's
Past Pawns. "Claude
Bloodgood, I dare say, was something of an enigma to all who knew him.
This very singular individual wove about himself such a web of fact and
fiction that no researcher to date has been able to untangle, to
penetrate its weave. Finally, most just wind up caught in it.
In this two-part article (the second installment coming in about two
months) I’ll take a different tack. Here, I’ll present what we
know to be true, and in the next Past Pawns, in all it’s romantic
detail, Mr. Bloodgood’s version..." |
“Confusion now hath
made his masterpiece.”
(Macbeth, scene III) |
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(9/11) Review:
Boris Spassky, 10th
World Champion, CD (Convekta), reviewed by Nagesh Havanur.
"The career of Boris
Spassky was overshadowed by his great contemporaries, Fischer and Tal. The
contribution of the former world champion to chess is yet to be appreciated in the post-Fischer era. This CD is a salutary effort in
that it makes the entire oeuvre of Spassky available to chess players. While 1965's games contain brief annotations, 400 Best
Games have
deep analysis by Khalifman in Informant style. It may be assumed that much of the analysis is derived from the book Boris Spassky’s 400
Selected Games (Chess Stars). The annotations are
a refreshing change. In several cases the games have been critically
examined afresh, overturning old evaluation and judgment....."
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