11.03.2010– ChessBase Light is a program you can download on the right of this newspage.
It is completely free and you have most of the functions of a full database
program. In the latest ChessBase Workshop installment Steve Lopez shows
you how you can analyse games with the standard unregistered version of CB Light, which
comes with an older but very efficient chess engine. Streaming
video.
11.03.2010– It is frequently anything but easy to make the material superiority of a rook over a bishop tell when all the pawns are on one side of the board. Last month we showed you a game with reduced material in which zugzwang brought about the decision. Today we follow that with an example with more pawns, in which White has to find access to a black fortress that is hard one to storm. The siege had already lasted for over twenty moves before White turned to radical measures with 55.f5!? GM Karsten Müller demonstrates how the game was decided and what additional defensive resources Black had. CBMagazine Online.
10.03.2010– 168 players took part in the biggest chess festival of closed tournaments in France, with seventeen groups, from the A Group (ten players, average 2526 Elo) all the way to the last group with an average Elo of about 1300. Israeli GM Evgeny Postny won first place with 6.0/9. The venue, the Conseil General, is normally reserved for local government meetings. IM Christophe Philippe reports.
10.03.2010– Britain's first ever grandmaster, the late Anthony John Miles, was not just
strong but also extremely creative. When this fiery player clashed with Anatoly
Karpov, it was pure provocation facing ice-cold strategy. In his Playchess
presentation Dennis Monokroussos shows us Karpov succeeding next week
it will be Miles taking down his illustrious opponent. Be there at 9 p.m. ET.
10.03.2010– Currently the FIDE rules require that players must be seated at the board no later than zero seconds past the scheduled start of a game. This has led to some unpleasant situations in the past. At the 11th European Individual Championships 110 participants signed a petition to change the grace period to 30 minutes. In the tournament Baadur Jobava and Zaher Efimenko lead. Round four report.