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Posted in ChessBase on Сен 5, 2009
05.09.2009
– An incident at this grandmaster tournament in India has made it to the national and now the international broadsheets: one of the top seeds, GM Vladislav Tkachiev, who recently won the French Championship, appeared [...]
Posted in ChessBase on Сен 4, 2009
04.09.2009
– A controversy is raging in the news media over a picture being put on sale by the British auction house Mullocks. It depicts Hitler and Lenin playing chess, in 1909, when they are supposed [...]
Posted in ChessBase on Сен 4, 2009
04.09.2009
– This week Nigel Short, aged 44, crossed the elite 2700 barrier once again, regaining the England number one spot he had lost for years. It was yet another twist in the remarkable career of [...]
Posted in ChessBase on Сен 4, 2009
04.09.2009
– ... in games on the very highest level truly are a rare occurrence. Yet sometimes... Okay, this is what
happened: 36.Nxf6+ Rxf6 37.Rxf6 Qxf6 38.gxf4 gxf4 39.Qe2 and soon after the peace pipe was smoked. How would you judge this sequence?
A) the moves were correct, so the draw was the logical result.
B) Black missed a forced win on the way.
C) using a little trick, White could have obtained a clearly better endgame.
The solution is ,
but first ponder over it with alarger version of the diagram
Posted in ChessBase on Сен 3, 2009
03.09.2009
– Despite the admonitions of our readers we are once again unable to resist. A press release from the "World Chess Federation" informs us that Varuzhan Akobian will not compete in the announced World Chess [...]