10.02.2010 – It is the essential electronic (and 52-page print) magazine for any serious chess player. Edition 134 contains extensive material games, GM analysis, multimedia commentary on the FIDE World Cup in Khanty Mansiysk, the London Chess Classic and the World Team Championship in Bursa, plus the latest openings surveys by leading experts. Don't miss it.
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ChessBase Magazin 134
ChessBase Magazine starts into 2010 with three very different tournament
highlights:
The FIDE World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk was once more
carried out as a massive KO tournament with 128 participants and saw
in Boris Gelfand a victor who threw into the scales against his rivals,
who were almost all younger, his experience and strong nerves.
The London Chess Classic consisted of an all-play-all
with the 3-point rule and saw a neck to neck race between Magnus Carlsen
and Vladimir Kramnik. The world's new number one managed to decide the
tournament in his favour.
In the World Team Championship in Bursa, Turkey,
Russia managed, despite an early slip-up, to defend its title, ahead
of the USA which had been leading in the meantime.
ChessBase Magazine also contains:
Introductory videos by GMs Carsten Müller and Dorian Rogozenco
The latests openings surveys by GMs Marin, Schandorff, Grivas, Kritz,
Stohl, Kuzmin, Postny, Langrock, Rogozenco, Karolyi, Krasenkow
ChessBase Magazine comes with 52-page printed supplement and a DVD. It
is a stand-alone product which contains a special Reader that give you
access to all the data and files on the DVD. You can also use ChessBase
Light, which gives you immediate access to the Playchess
server as well. Naturally you can read ChessBase Magazine with all
ChessBase programs, e.g. ChessBase 10, Fritz 11, 12, Rybka, Shredder,
Hiarcs, etc.
10.02.2010 – Although there are of course beautiful examples of zugzwang in the
middlegame, it is much more a motif from endgames, many of which could
not be won without zugzwang. Even when there is a clear superiority in
material, as for exampe in the duel between a rook and a bishop, it is often
only possible to make progress by employing zugwang. Here is a
typical example. After 68.Kb5 Black could, with the correct
continuation, have retained his chances of a draw. What that was and
the instructive winning method used by White after 68...Bc5? are
things you can find out from Karsten Müller's analysis in ChessBase Magazine Online.
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10.02.2010 – It is the essential electronic (and 52-page print) magazine for any serious chess player. Edition 134 contains extensive material games, GM analysis, multimedia commentary on the FIDE World Cup in Khanty Mansiysk, the London Chess Classic and the World Team Championship in Bursa, plus the latest openings surveys by leading experts. Don't miss it.
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Deep Fritz 12 - Multiprocessor Version DEEP FRITZ is the worlds most popular chess program, developed by ChessBase, the world's leading chess software company (Washington Post). Whether you are a beginner, club player or professional DEEP FRITZ has everything that chess players could want: automatically adjusting playing strength, handicap and coaching functions, explanation of positions, coloured danger warnings, openings statistics, automatic game analysis, trainings modules for openings, tactics, endgames, and a database of one million games. Available from 16. February 2010
ChessBase Magazin 134
ChessBase Magazine starts into 2010 with three very different tournament
highlights:
The FIDE World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk was once more
carried out as a massive KO tournament with 128 participants and saw
in Boris Gelfand a victor who threw into the scales against his rivals,
who were almost all younger, his experience and strong nerves.
The London Chess Classic consisted of an all-play-all
with the 3-point rule and saw a neck to neck race between Magnus Carlsen
and Vladimir Kramnik. The world's new number one managed to decide the
tournament in his favour.
In the World Team Championship in Bursa, Turkey,
Russia managed, despite an early slip-up, to defend its title, ahead
of the USA which had been leading in the meantime.
ChessBase Magazine also contains:
Introductory videos by GMs Carsten Müller and Dorian Rogozenco
The latests openings surveys by GMs Marin, Schandorff, Grivas, Kritz,
Stohl, Kuzmin, Postny, Langrock, Rogozenco, Karolyi, Krasenkow
ChessBase Magazine comes with 52-page printed supplement and a DVD. It
is a stand-alone product which contains a special Reader that give you
access to all the data and files on the DVD. You can also use ChessBase
Light, which gives you immediate access to the Playchess
server as well. Naturally you can read ChessBase Magazine with all
ChessBase programs, e.g. ChessBase 10, Fritz 11, 12, Rybka, Shredder,
Hiarcs, etc.
10.02.2010 – Many of America's best players have abandoned the game
and gone into other fields like GM James Tarjan who in 1984, while still in his early 30s,
became a librarian. He was an exceptional player, and in this week's Playchess presentation by Dennis Monokroussos we get to see two games which will rivet your attention.
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Playchess training with FM Dennis Monokroussos
Sadly for American chess fans, many of our best players have given up the game
and gone into other fields. One such player is grandmaster James Tarjan, who
stopped playing competitive chess in his early 30s, in 1984 – and became
a librarian. This is some library's gain, but definitely our loss! He was a
player with a very attractive style, and more than that was one of the nicest
people I ever met or faced over the chess board. I played him once, in my early
teens, and don't recall putting up much of a challenge. Nevertheless, he was
very gracious and we looked at the game afterwards for what seemed like a long
time in my youthful memory. There were no airs, no "I'm a GM, so listen
up and take me at my word" sort of attitude, just a very gentle manner
that I remember to this day. This doesn't mean he wasn't a fighter at the board
– he was! But there was no sense that he was trying to beat the person
on the other side of the board.
Personal qualities aside, he was also an exceptional player – he was
(and is) a GM, after all. So in this week's show, we'll take a look at two very
entertaining games of his, both played in the mid-1970s when he was an up-and-comer.
Both games are short, but have very different characteristics. One is an ultra-sharp
Dragon Sicilian, the second is a Modern, and both games will rivet your attention.
To watch, just join me on Wednesday night at 9 p.m. ET (or 3 a.m. Thursday
morning CET) in the Broadcast room of the Playchess server. You'll find it under
the Games tab – just look for "Tarjan-Games" and you're there.
Hope to see you then!
Dennis Monokroussos'
lectures begin on Wednesdays at 9 p.m. EST, which translates to 02:00h GMT,
03:00 Paris/Berlin, 13:00h Sydney (on Thursday). You can find the times for
different locations in the world at World
Time and Date, with exact times for most larger cities .
And you can watch older lectures by Dennis Monokroussos offline in
the Chess Media System room of Playchess:
Enter the above archive room and click on "Games" to see the lectures.
Monokroussos in Mexico: World Championship 2007
Dennis Monokroussos is 43, lives in South Bend, IN, where
he teaches chess and has worked as an adjunct professor of philosophy at the
University of Notre Dame and Indiana University-South Bend.
At one time he was one of the strongest juniors in the U.S. and has reached
a peak rating of 2434 USCF, but several long breaks from tournament play have
made him rusty. He is now resuming tournament chess in earnest, hoping to reach
new heights.
Dennis has been working as a chess teacher for ten years now, giving lessons
to adults and kids both in person and on the internet, worked for a number of
years for New York’s Chess In The Schools program, where he was one of
the coaches of the 1997-8 US K-8 championship team from the Bronx, and was very
active in working with many of CITS’s most talented juniors.
When Dennis Monokroussos presents a game, there are usually two main areas
of focus: the opening-to-middlegame transition and the key moments of the middlegame
(or endgame, when applicable). With respect to the latter, he attempts to present
some serious analysis culled from his best sources (both text and database),
which he has checked with his own efforts and then double-checked with his chess
software.
Playchess Training with IM Merijn van Delft
Everyone is invited to join this weekly training hour on Wednesday evening.
Together we will have a look at the most recent grandmaster games. Recurring
themes during our analyses and discussions are the latest opening developments
and how to work on your own chess.
A word about myself: I was born (March 13, 1979) and raised in Apeldoorn, The
Netherlands. In 1995 I won the Dutch U16 Championship and played the European
Championship in Poland and the World Championship in Brasil. In 1998 I moved
to Amsterdam to study psychology and had a great time there. In 2003 I met my
wife Evi Zickelbein and ever since we've been living together in Hamburg, Germany.
In 2004 I made both master titles: one at the university and one in chess. Since
2005 I've been working fulltime in the chess world: training, coaching, writing,
organizing and still actively playing myself. By now I have about fifteen years
of experience as a chess trainer. Together with my dad I wrote a book
about chess training (Schaaktalent Ontwikkelen), of which the Dutch
version is already available and the English
version will follow April 2010.
IM Merijn van Delft's lecture starts at 20:00h Central European Time (Berlin,
Paris, Rome), which translates to 19:00h London. You can find the times for
different locations in the world at World
Time and Date. Exact times for most larger cities are .
The lecture is in the "Broadcast" room of Playchess. It is free for
Premium Playchess members (50 Ducats for others).
Links
The lectures are broadcast live on the chess server .
If you are not a member you can download the free PGN reader ChessBase
Light, which gives you immediate access. You can also use the program
to read, replay and analyse PGN games. New and enhanced: CB Light 2009!
10.02.2010 – For chess enthusiasts who want to explore the possibility of using modern
software to study their hobby more thoroughly, an ideal start is ChessBase Light,
which one can download on the right of this newspage. It is completely free.
In his latest
ChessBase Workshop installment Steven Lopez shows you what you can do with
the standard unregistered version. Streaming
video.
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