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Russia's Kramnik wins world chess champion title 2006-10-14 06:54:00 ELISTA (Russia
): Russian grandmaster Viktor Kramnik
overpowered Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in a series of timed tie-break matches to win the World Chess Championship on Friday in a tournament billed as the reunification of long-divided international chess
competition.Topalov resigned in the fourth 25-minute tie-break match after Kramnik, playing white, checked the black king on the 45th move of the match with a well-protected rook, leaving both black rooks open to attack.Playoff game 1: Playoff game 2:Playoff game 3Playoff game 4 Read more:champion
Mexico Breaks Guinness World Record For Number Of Simultaneous Chess Games 2006-10-24 05:08:00
MEXICO CITY - More than 13000 chess players showed up to break the world record for the number of simultaneous chess games played. The event took place in Mexico
City's Zocalo square and beat last year's record of 12388 simultaneous games also played in Mexico City. Former world chess champion and Grand Master Anatoly Karpov attended the event in order to set a record of his own. Karpov attended the event to try and break the world record for celebrity book signing, by signing 2,000 chess books.
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Chess champ hurls charges 2006-11-01 08:04:00 One day after winning the world chess champ
ionship, Vladimir Kramnik of Russia said the behavior of his opponent, Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, had been unethical.
During the three-week match, which ended on Friday, Topalov accused Kramnik of cheating by making frequent visits to his bathroom, where there were no surveillance cameras. The accusations led to the locking of the bathrooms and a protest by Kramnik, who forfeited Game 5. Despite that setback, he managed to win the match in overtime, 8 1/2 to 7 1/2.
Speaking by telephone from his room in Elista, the capital of the Russian republic Kalmykia and the site of the match, Kramnik said Saturday that he understood Topalov had been under a lot of pressure during the match, but that he believed that Topalov and his manager, Silvio Danailov, who filed the protests, had gone too far.
"In any world championship, there is a lot of pressure and people act differently sometimes," Kramnik said. "It doesn't mean that you have to go under cert
You know you're a chess addict if... 2006-11-14 07:11:00 - you bump into someone or something and say J'adoube
- you set up a chess
set with salt and pepper shakers and food items when yousit at a checkered tablecloth
- you calculate 8x8 faster than 7x7
- you have more chess clocks than watches
- you buy the biggest, fastest, most expensive computer just to play chess on itor use it as a database
- mate, mating positions, exposed bishops, and forking the queen have nothing todo with sex
- you take a chess set and book to the bathroom, and forget to go to thebathroom
- when you meet someone, your first question is, "What's your rating?"
- every week you download every game from The Week in Chess in ChessBase 6,ChessBase, and PGN format
- you buy a newspaper only if it has a chess column in it
- you still think Bobby Fischer is a hero - despite his radio interviews and his9/11 comments - who will come back the the U.S. and take on the rest of theworld again
- you have more chess books than any other book or magazine combined
- the Olympics a Read more:addict
New Ideas in the Petrov's Defense 2006-11-17 07:41:00
*DISCLAIMER* This isn't exactly a new idea in this opening. To my knowledge Alfonso Romero (who i believe was a GM) was the first to explore this opening and write an article about it in a Spanish magazine in 1998, and a more in depth article in the New In Chess Yearbook #54 in 2000. (I had access to neither of these) I am merely expanding on what i could find of his original theory, using some top level games played since and ideas of my own.*
I already know what you are thinking, "but I don't want to play the Petrov's, its toodrawish." When you are white, and black starts out on that ever-familiar path, try moaning to him that you don't want to play this opening, see how far it gets you J. Or, you can learn some lines here that may very well keep you from drawing, and not having to worry about drawing in this opening again. We all know how the Petrov's starts out: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 and there are some alternatives here, but I'm not going to get into those, I'm here for anot Read more:Defense
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2006 Capablanca Chess Memorial Tournament November 19-30 2006-11-18 05:56:00 Just came across this on Susan Polgars Chess Blog.The 2006 Capablanca Memorial
is taking place from November
19 to 30, 2006 at the hotel Habana Riviera.
The event is a 6 player double round robin with
Vassily IvanchukEvgeny BareevKamil MitonRuben FelgaerLenier DominguezLazaro Bruzon
Here is the official website.
Who is your pick to win this very strong tournament?
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Chess Etiquette Part 1 2006-11-25 15:53:00
This is the first installment in a series on chess etiquette. This is of course an opinion piece and should not be taken as any concrete enforceable rule. This is just a way to help some of our players that may be new to the game and do not know how precisely they should conduct themselves in play.
First, chess is a noble game and it should be treated with respect at all times. This game, in its various forms, spans almost to the birth of written history. Whilst the days of romantic chess are long past, there are things we can do to help the spirit of the game survive. Living as we do in a technological age it is easy to forget that there is another person across the board even when we are playing online chess. We must, through our own actions, display good taste and fair sportsmanship. We must act civilized and proper even when it is not returned.
One of the most common questions that I see arise with online chess sites and over the board games is when it is proper to resign. Firs Read more:Etiquette
Chennai Online News Service - View News 2006-11-28 06:11:00 Chennai Online News Service
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New Delhi, Nov 27: In a unique attempt early in his career, world's second youngest ever Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi will simultaneously play four blindfold chess matches here tomorrow.
This is a first instance in the country when a Grandmaster will be playing blindfold matches simultaneously against more than one opponent.
The 13-year-old Negi, with his eyes closed, will be pitted against city's four talents in the event to be held at the Russian Centre for Science Arts and Culture as a part of next month's Amity Grandmasters Challenge in which the Delhi prodigy will take on European Women's Champion Kateryna Lahno of Ukraine in matchplay tournament.
Negi will be told the moves his opponents make and he will reply to that by speaking aloud his own moves.
The event will be followed by another exhibition match where Negi will play against as many as 25 opponents simultaneously, albeit Read more:Chennai
World Chess Challenge 2006 2006-11-28 06:32:00 World
Chess Challenge
2006 - The Duel: Man Vs. MachineVladimir Kramnik vs. Chess Computer Deep Fritz From November 25 to December 5, 2006 at the Federal Art Hall in Bonn
One million US dollars for Kramnik if he defeats Deep Fritz
Federal Finance Minister Peer Steinbruck is event patron Essen.
Classical World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik vs. the world's leading chess computer, Deep Fritz: The much-anticipated WORLD CHESS CHALLENGE (WCC) 2006 will be held from November 25 to December 5, 2006 in the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn. The exclusive sponsor of WCC 2006 is Essen-based energy and chemicals company RAG.
The kick-off press conference for WCC 2006 took place today in Essen. RAG Chairman of the Board of Management Dr. Werner Müller said, "We are delighted to make WCC 2006 possible. Chess fits in beautifully with our company. Chess calls for intelligent strategy, foresight and endurance. RAG is also pursuing a clear strategy that will al
World Chess Challenge Update 2006-12-01 06:14:00
Start of World
Chess Challenge
2006: First Match between Kramnik and Fritz Ends in a Draw
At the start of World Chess Challenge 2006, World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) and the world's leading chess computer program, Deep Fritz (Germany), ended the first game in a draw after 47 moves. Kramnik (white) kept the pressure on the computer with a Catalan opening, and dominated the entire match. The WorldChampion was obviously well prepared: He needed only 15 minutes for the first 20 moves, while Deep Fritz took three times as long. The two adversaries battled down to the last pawn. In the end, the computer managed to gain thecrucial half point against the World Champion. "I'm happy with the draw. It was a good start for this competition. I put the computer under pressure, but Deep Fritz mounted a precise defense," said the World Champion after thematch.
The two opponents played before a full house at the hotly anticipated World Chess Challenge 2006 in the Federal Art Hall in Read more:Update
Kramnik and Deep Fritz battle to a draw in 4th game of the World Chess Challenge 2006-12-04 09:04:00
Today's battle between World
Champion Vladimir Kramnik
(Russia) and chess computer Deep Fritz
(Germany) in the Federal Art Hall, with five and a half hours and 54 moves the longest match of World Chess Challenge
2006 so far, ended with a draw. After four matches out of six, Deep Fritz
thus continues to lead Kramnik by one point.
For the first time in the World Chess Challenge 2006 a game was opened with 1.e4. With Fritz playing white, Kramnik opted for the Russian defense. Just as in the third match, Fritz quickly took the initiative and began to exert enormous pressure on Kramnik. The Russian world champion, though, drew on his considerable defensive skills once more and successfully countered Fritz's moves, denying the computer any real leverage. In the endgame Deep Fritz pitted two rooks and a bishop against Kramnik's pair of rooks and a knight. Following the exchange of both rooks, Fritz's strong bishop and active king put him in a slightly superior position in the bishop-kn
Second Victory against Kramnik in the Last Match - Deep Fritz 2006-12-07 07:17:00
In the sixth and final game of World Chess Challenge, chess computer Deep Fritz
(Germany - white) held onto its lead against
Vladimir Kramnik
(Russia - black), and even notched up a second win against the World Champion. That means the world's leading chess computer is the ultimate winner of the Man vs. Machine duel. Four draws and two wins for Deep Fritz
- that's the legacy of World Chess Challenge, which excited fans all over the world have been following closely since November 25.
After more than four-and-a-half hours and 47 moves, Vladimir Kramnik accepted the defeat against his opponent - an opponent whose computational abilities are almost unfathomable: Deep Fritz calculated eight to ten million positions a second during World Chess Challenge. The audience at the Federal Art Hall in Bonn responded to today's epic battle between human and artificial intelligence with applause. The World Chess Challenge Cup was then handed over to the Deep Fritz team in a presentation ceremon Read more:Second
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Ukraine's Ivanchuk Grabs the Cup at Mexican Chess Tournament 2006-12-23 04:12:00
Ukranian Grand Master Vasily Ivanchuck regained the title of the international chess tournament Carlos Torre Repetto which was held in the Mexican
city of Merida, in the state of Yucatan, from December 14 through the 22.
Ivanchuk, who ranks 6th on the FIDE's list with an ELO rating of 2741 points, had been the champion of the 2004 edition. This time, he won the title after defeating Cuba's Bruzon in rapid games 1.5 to 0.5, while the Cuban player had grabbed last year's cup.
Tthe match concluded with a couple of draws in the morning and afternoon rounds, so it was necessary to play the 15-minute games. The first also ended tied after 41 moves. But in the second the Ukrainian, who was playing with whites, was able to beat Bruzon in 36 moves.
Speaking with the press, the new champion said that he had done his best to win the competition, especially in the last match. He also said he hoped to have given satisfaction to the spectators at the Olimpo culture center, which was the venue Read more:Ukraine
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Chess Mathematics and computers 2006-12-23 06:29:00 Chess is interesting from the mathematical point of view; the number of legal positions in chess is estimated to be between 1043 and 1050, with a game-tree complexity of approximately 10123. The game-tree complexity of chess was first calculated by Claude Shannon as 10120, a number known as the "Shannon number". Typically an average position has thirty to forty possible moves, but there may be as few as zero (in the case of checkmate or stalemate) or as many as 218. The most important mathematical challenge of chess is the development of algorithms which can play chess. The idea of creating a chess playing machine dates to the eighteenth century; around 1769, the chess playing automaton called The Turk became famous before being exposed as a hoax. Serious trials based on automatons, such as El Ajedrecista, were too complex and limited to be useful.Since the advent of the digital computer in the 1950s, chess enthusiasts and computer engineers have built, with increasing degrees of Read more:computers
European Chess Club Cup 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I reported on Thursday on the conclusion of the European
Club Cup in Fuegen in Austria, in which three Russian teams ended up first equal, with Tomsk-400 first on tie-break. The strongest teams in Fuegen were utterly formidable. Indeed, no fewer than 10 of the 20 players in the world rated over 2,700 were in action at one time or another. Nevertheless, it wasn't one of the absolute elite who got the best individual result but a more modest player, albeit a strong grandmaster: the Finnish GM Tomi Nyback, who was playing on fifth board for Werder Bremen. Nyback's superb 6.5/7 netted him a performance rating of 2,887 - way above the 2,575 he actually is. Here, he blew away Vladimir Malakhov (who was playing for the top seeds Ural Sverdlovsk) in excellent style. I should add that the game came to my attention through Alex Baburin's splendid daily internet paper Chess Today - www.chesstoday.net. In a complicated opening battle, White worked to prevent the enemy bishop from settling on f5
Chess 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Raymond KeeneMikhail Tal was the meteor of Soviet chess. He rose to the top with extraordinary speed but crashed with almost equal alacrity, his victim and nemesis in both cases being the mighty Botvinnik. World champion from 1960-1961, Tal eventually matured into one of the most consistent players among the elite but his days of inextinguishable glory were undoubtedly to be found in the tournaments and matches of 1959 and 1960 that swept him to the world crown. Kasparov's verdict on Tal: 'His style of play was altogether inimitable, since it is impossible to copy the play of a genius. Tal is the only player I can remember who did not calculate lengthy variations: he simply saw through them!'My Great Predecessors (Volumes 1 and 2) by Garry Kasparov; Everyman Chess, L25 each.Tal-Smyslov: Candidates Tournament Bled/Zagreb/Belgrade 1959; Caro-Kann Defence 1 e4 c6 2 d3 d5 3 Nd2 e5 4 Ngf3 Nd7 5 d4 dxe4 6 Nxe4 exd4 7 Qxd4 7 Bc4 is also good; White's rapid development and domination in th
List of great chess books 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Alphabetical Order by Title----------------------------------The 10 Most Common Chess Mistakes: ...And How to Avoid Them! by: Larry Evans 100 Awesome Chess Moves by: Eric Schiller The 100 Best Chess Games of the 20th Century, Ranked by: Andy Soltis 100 Easy Checkmates by: Larry Evans 100 Other Games to Play on a Chessboard by: Stephen Addison 100 Soviet Chess Miniatures by: P. H. Clarke 1000 Best Short Games of Chess: A Treasury of Masterpieces in Miniature by: Irving Chernev 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate by: Fred Reinfeld 101 Attacking Ideas in Chess by: Joe Gallagher 101 Brilliant Chess Miniatures by: John Nunn 101 Chess Opening Surprises by: Graham Burgess 101 Chess Opening Traps by: Steve Giddins 101 Chess Problems for Beginners by: Fred Reinfeld 101 Questions on How to Play Chess by: Fred Wilson 101 Winning Chess Strategies by: Angus Dunnington 107 Great Chess Battles, 1938??1945 by: Alexander Alekhine The 19th Century Today: New in Chess Yearbook 59 by: Genna Sosonko, Paul Van Read more:chess
Computing a chess game's end 1970-01-01 00:59:59 The game was down to six pieces. Former world chess
champion Anatoly Karpov, playing white, had a king, a bishop and two knights, whereas current world champion Gary Kasparov had only a king and a rook. In the end, the two combatants played to a draw. But was that the only possible outcome? Was there a way for Karpov to win?Whereas chess experts would find themselves hard-pressed to answer such questions with any degree of certainty, a new, sophisticated computer program specifically designed for analyzing six-piece endgames can now provide the answers. Developed by Lewis Stiller, a graduate student in computer science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, the program systematically works out the combinations of moves that produce various outcomes when given the identities and initial positions of six chess pieces, none of which is a pawn.In this example, Stiller's program, running on a multiprocessor computer known as The Connection Machine, provided the answer in about 90 minute Read more:Computing
David Shenk talks about "The Immortal Game." 1970-01-01 00:59:59 In his wide-ranging and ever-fascinating examination of chess, Shenk gleefully unearths the hidden history of a game that seems so simple yet contains infinite possibilities. From its invention somewhere in India around 500 A.D., to its use as a teaching tool in inner-city America, chess has been a remarkably omnipresent factor in the development of civilization. - Book Passage David
Shenk is an award-winning, national-bestselling author of five books, and a contributor to National Geographic, Slate, Harper's, National Public Radio, The New Yorker, Gourmet, Wired, and The American Scholar. He has written about music, technology, politics, bioethics, the brain, corporate malfeasance and kids' toys. He lectures frequently, and regularly appears on TV and radio. Want to know what it is like to play chess on www.chessmaniac.com?Catch the thrill of it! Can you handle playing 20..30 or even 100 games at one time? Become a member of the ChessManiac.com Club and find out if you have what i Read more:Immortal
Online Chess Interview With Grand Master Jennifer Shahade 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Jennifer Shahade (born December 31, 1980 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American chess player and writer. She is a two time American women's chess champion, and the author of Chess Bitch. In 1998, she became the first (and so far only) female to win the U.S. Junior Open. Then, a few years later, in 2002, she won the U.S. Women's Chess Championship in Seattle, Washington. The following year, although she did not repeat as U.S. Women's Champion, she did well enough to earn her second of three required Women's International Master
norms. Then, in 2004, she returned to the top spot among U.S. women chessplayers by winning the U.S. Women's Championship that year in a 7 player invitational round robin. Shahade lives in Brooklyn and has earned a degree in Comparative Literature at New York University. Her writing has appeared in the L.A Times, The New York Times, Chess Life, New In chess, and chessninja.com.In 2006 Shahade was hired by the United States Chess Federation to be the w Read more:Grand
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Draw in the Fifth Match - Deep Fritz Still One Point Ahead 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Prior to the final match in World Chess Challenge 2006, chess computer Deep Fritz
(Germany) remains one point ahead of World Champion Vladimir Kramnik (Russia). Today's fifth match in the sold-out Federal Art Hall in Bonn ended in a tie after three-and-a-half hours and 35 moves. That leaves Kramnik with one more chance to win a game and catch up with the world's leading chess computer - in the final match to be held this Tuesday at 3 p.m. Kramnik played white for the third time in today's match, opening again with 1.d4. Deep Fritz
responded with the Nimzoindian Defense. The two opponents swept through the opening - Kramnik emerged with a slight advantage over the computer. The 31-year-old World Champion seized the initiative with a pair of bishops. After a piece exchange, Kramnik's two rooks and bishop faced off against Deep Fritz's two rooks and knight. Once again, the bishop was pitted against the knight. Confronted with a position of great tactical complexity, Kramnik had to co Read more:Fifth
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Bulgaria's Topalov Faces Ban for Linking Kramnik to KGB 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Bulgaria's chess king Vesselin Topalov
may be disqualified by FIDE for three years for violating the Code of Ethics by linking Vladimir Kramnik
to the KGB in an interview for Spanish newspaper ABC. People from outside who were Russians and were far from the world of chess helped Kramnik, Topalov said in the interview. These were either amateurs or people from the secret services, he added. They were the ones who placed the Internet cable in Kramnik's toilet, he said.Topalov also said that he was afraid for his life while in Elista and that he would never go to Russia again. Nobody from Kramnik's team was involved in that, that's why they deny the whole thing, he said. Topalov suspected FIDE's president Kirsan Ilymzhinov was also involved in the plot because he was a businessman who was obeying orders because there had to be a Russian champion. For these words of Topalov Kramnik's manager Carsten Hensel lodged a claim with FIDE against the Bulgarian chess master. Hensel said he ha Read more:Bulgaria
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Deep Fritz Puts Enormous Pressure on Kramnik 1970-01-01 00:59:59 After four hours and 44 moves of play, today's third match in World Chess Challenge 2006 between World Champion Vladimir Kramnik
(Russia) and the world's leading chess computer program, Deep Fritz
, (Germany) ended in a draw. For the first time in this competition, Deep Fritz
(black) took the initiative and exerted enormous pressure on Kramnik. The Catalan opening put the computer in a superior position - Vladimir Kramnik had to mount a very precise defense in order to maintain his own position.Deep Fritz was not interested in capturing material. Instead, it sacrificed a pawn in its 16th move in order to obtain a development advantage. However, the Russian World Champion successfully neutralized the machine's advantage. By making an exchange sacrifice in the 38th move, Kramnik managed to build an impenetrable King's fortress and finished the game with a draw.Following his defeat in the second match, Kramnik took far more time to plan his initial moves than in the first two games. Kr Read more:Pressure
Kramnik's Brilliant Game Ends with a Cruel Defeat 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Thanks to an unbelievable error made by the World Champion in the 34th move, today's second match in World Chess Challenge 2006 came to an abrupt conclusion. Vladimir Kramnik
(Russia) wasted a brilliant game and an extraordinary position by completely overlooking a one-move checkmate against chess computer Deep Fritz (Germany). Deep Fritz checkmated the World Champion by moving its queen to h7. After playing two of the six matches, the computer has taken the lead with 1.5 to 0.5 points.Like Kramnik, Deep Fritz opened its first white game by playing d4. Once the Queen's Gambit had been accepted, the adversaries began a strategically complex game. The Russian World Champion controlled the strategic position beautifully, developing advantages through precise playing. He even avoided a repetition of position that would have resulted in a draw. Kramnik was not under time pressure - he still had 33 minutes on the time control clock for the last five moves. But then, something unbelievable Read more:Brilliant
President Gerald Ford Who Declared National Chess Day in America Dies 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (July 14, 1913 - December 26, 2006) was the 38th (1974-1977) President
of the United States. Ford also served as the 40th (1973-1974) Vice President. He was the first person appointed to the Vice-Presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment, and upon succession to the presidency became the first (and to date, only) president in U.S. history to fill that office without having been elected either President or Vice-President. He was also the longest-lived United States president ever, having surpassed Ronald Reagan's record on November 12, 2006.October 9, 1976, President Gerald Ford
, the nation's thirty-eighth president, declared National
Chess Day.Ford was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He was originally named Leslie Lynch King, Jr., after his biological father. His parents divorced when he was less than a year old, and when his mother remarried, he was given the name of his step-father, Gerald Rudolff Ford. He later changed the spelling of the middle name. Ford Read more:Gerald
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Shekhar Ganguly his fourth straight National chess crown in India 1970-01-01 00:59:59 VALSAD: Contrasting deadlocks on the top five boards gave Surya Shekhar Ganguly
his fourth
straight National
crown and brought in four new faces in the India
n team as the final day of the Atul National 'A' chess
championship served another reminder of the changing order.Runner-up Deepan Chakkravarthy was the only other Grandmaster in the six-member National squad after S. Arun Prasad, G. Rohit, Suvrajit Saha and G.N. Gopal made the grade. Interestingly, the average age of the team members is 21!The magnitude of achievements of these players could be gauged from the fact that seasoned Grandmasters and former National champions Abhijit Kunte, Dibyendu Barua and Pravin Thipsay failed well short of expectations after running into much younger rivals on this day.The 23-year-old Ganguly overcame the early aggression of fellow Grandmaster Neelotpal Das to come out undefeated in 27 moves. Neelotpal needed a win to join the Indian team, but Ganguly defended well. The result raised Ganguly's
Cheating in chess. Where will it lead? 1970-01-01 00:59:59 An Indian chess
player has been banned for 10 years for cheating after he was caught using his mobile phone's wireless device to win games, chess officials said on Wednesday.The player, Umakant Sharma, had logged rating points at a rapid pace in the last 18 months and also qualified for the national championship, arousing the suspicion of officials and bemusing rivals.Mr. Sharma was finally caught at a recent tournament when officials discovered that he had stitched a Bluetooth device in a cloth cap which he always pulled over his ears.Officials decided that it was a little odd that Sharma always wore a cloth cap when he played his games and decided to have a look at the item.Sure enough inside the cap they found a Bluetooth headset which Sharma used to chat to his accomplices, who used a computer to relay moves to him.He communicated to his accomplices outside the hall, who then used a computer to relay moves to him, Indian chess federation secretary D.V. Sundar said on Wednesday."We Read more:Cheating
Top female chess players 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Top 50 womenRank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year1 Polgar, Judit g HUN 2710 0 19762 Koneru, Humpy g IND 2545 0 19873 Kosteniuk, Alexandra g RUS 2534 0 19844 Cramling, Pia g SWE 2528 24 19635 Xu, Yuhua wg CHN 2517 0 19766 Chiburdanidze, Maia g GEO 2504 11 19617 Zhu, Chen g QAT 2501 18 19768 Kosintseva, Nadezhda m RUS 2493 19 19859 Stefanova, Antoaneta g BUL 2489 28 197910 Hou, Yifan wf CHN 2481 19 199411 Socko, Monika m POL 2473 20 197812 Sebag, Marie m FRA 2471 15 198613 Galliamova, Alisa m RUS 2470 0 197214 Hoang Thanh Trang m HUN 2470 0 198015 Cmilyte, Viktorija m LTU 2469 9 198316 Dembo, Yelena m GRE 2468 18 198317 Mkrtchian, Lilit m ARM 2468 11 198218 Shen, Yang wg CHN 2468 10 198919 Zhao, Xue wg CHN 2467 15 198520 Qin, Kanying wg CHN 2465 0 197421 Lahno, Kateryna m UKR 2459 18 198922 Kosintseva, Tatiana m RUS 2458 19 198623 Zhukova, Natalia wg UKR 2456 0 197924 Muzychuk, Anna wg SLO 2452 20 199025 Paehtz, Elisabeth m GER 2449 6 198526 Zatonskih, Anna wg USA 2449 26 197827 Ga Read more:chess
Advanced Chess 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Advanced Chess Organization(CCO)Advanced Chess (sometimes called cyborg chess) is a relatively new form of chess, first introduced by grandmaster Garry Kasparov, with the objective of a human player and a computer chess program playing as a team against other such pairs. Many Advanced Chess proponents have stressed that Advanced Chess has merits in:increasing the level of play to heights never before seen in chess; producing blunder-free games with the qualities and the beauty of both perfect tactical play and highly meaningful strategic plans; giving the viewing audience a remarkable insight into the thought processes of strong human chess players and strong chess computers, and the combination thereof. HistoryThe former world champion grandmaster Garry Kasparov, who retired from competitive chess in 2005 but is still considered by many the strongest chess player in the world, has a long history in playing "Man vs. Machine" events. Among the most important are his matches against IBM
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