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Kramnik
defeats Leko
Vladimir Kramnik defeated Peter
Leko in the Hungarian's home ground in Budapest, January 2nd to
8th. The Braingames World Champion won the match 7-5.
The
match was sponsored by "RWE Gas Match".
| Budapest,
January 2001 |
| |
Vladimir
Kramnik |
RUS |
2772 |
1 |
˝ |
˝ |
1 |
0 |
˝ |
˝ |
0 |
1 |
1 |
˝ |
˝ |
7 |
| |
Peter
Leko |
HUN |
2748 |
0 |
˝ |
˝ |
0 |
1 |
˝ |
˝ |
1 |
0 |
0 |
˝ |
˝ |
5 |
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Groningen
to host European championship
Groningen of the Netherlands
will in all likelihood be hosting the 2001 European Chess Championship.
The European Chess Union selected Groningen as the championship
venue in early November.
To secure the financing of the championship, the Chess Foundation
Groningen (SSG) have decided to cancel the traditional Groningen
Christmas Festival this December. This breaks the long tradition
of annual world class chess tournaments in Groningen, but secures
the European championship.
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10
000 chess items to be auctioned
Kevin O'Connell is parting
with his massive 10 000 item chess collection - 4 tons
of books, magazines, manuscripts, sets, autographs etc. The whole
lot comes up for auction at Phillips in London on 7
November at 2 p.m. London time.
The auction can be seen and taken part in via the Internet. To
bid via the Internet you must register with The
Auction Channel.
Details can be found at http://www.users.totalise.co.uk/~chess/
mirrored at http://homepages.tesco.net/~kevinoconnell/
and also at
http://www.btinternet.com/~kevinoconnell/
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Grischuk
wins in the Faroe Islands
The 3rd Tórshavn International
was played October 5th - October 14th in Tórshavn, Faroe
Islands. Alexander Grischuk and Ruslan Ponomariov were in a class
of their own. 30 players competed.
| 3rd
Tórshavn International , Faroe Islands, October 2000
|
| 1. |
Alexander
Grischuk |
RUS |
2606 |
7˝ |
| |
Ruslan
Ponomariov |
UKR |
2630 |
7˝ |
| 3. |
Alexander
Baburin |
IRL |
2590 |
6 |
| 4. |
Stuart
Conquest |
ENG |
2529 |
5˝ |
| |
Vadim
Milov |
SUI |
2626 |
5˝ |
| |
Lev Psakhis |
ISR |
2611 |
5˝ |
| |
Jonathan
Rowson |
SCO |
2494 |
5˝ |
| |
Henrik
Danielsen |
DEN |
2519 |
5˝ |
| |
Steffen
Pedersen |
DEN |
2464 |
5˝ |
Official website
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Short beats
Bacrot
Nigel Short beat the young French
champion Etienne Bacrot in a match held in Albert, France between
10 and 15 October.
| Bacrot
- Short, France, October 2000
|
| 1. |
Nigel
Short |
ENG |
2677 |
˝ |
1 |
˝ |
1 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
| 2. |
Etienne
Bacrot |
FRA |
2613 |
˝ |
0 |
˝ |
0 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
Games in PGN
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Kiril
Georgiev wins in Yugoslavia
The Bulgarian Kiril Georgiev won
the strong Veselin Boskovic Memorial tournament that ran in Belgrade
from 3rd to 11th October. Results:
| Veselin
Boskovic Memorial, Belgrade, October 2000
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| 1. |
Kiril
Georgiev |
BUL |
2661 |
6˝ |
| 2. |
Alexander
Beliavsky |
SLO |
2654 |
6 |
| 3. |
Ulf Andersson |
SWE |
2641 |
5˝ |
| 4. |
Ivan Ivanisevic |
YUG |
2530 |
4˝ |
| |
Branko
Damljanovic |
YUG |
2559 |
4˝ |
| |
Zlatko
Ilincic |
YUG |
2563 |
4˝ |
| 7. |
Miroslav
Markovic |
YUG |
2558 |
3˝ |
| |
Bozidar
Ivanovic |
YUG |
2476 |
3˝ |
| |
Oleg Romanishin |
UKR |
2591 |
3˝ |
| 10. |
Xie Jun |
CHN |
2568 |
3 |
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Kasparov
faces silicon challenge
The World Computer Chess Champion
program SHREDDER, written by 31 year old German Stefan
Meyer-Kahlen, has challenged Garry Kasparov to a match with
the title of "Absolute World Chess Champion" at stake.
The challenge was issued by SHREDDER's agent, the Munich based
company MILLENNIUM 2000, which is allowing Kasparov to choose
all the essential playing conditions including the venue, the number
of games, and the rate of play.
Ossi Weiner, Managing Director of MILLENNIUM 2000, announced
his plan to give Kasparov every opportunity to satisfy himself
that he would be playing under the best possible conditions. "Whatever
rules Kasparov wants to set, these we will abide by." said Weiner.
"He is after all the human World Chess Champion and we fully respect
his right over all the important conditions for the match, so long
as the conditions are not worse for Shredder than they are for
Kasparov."
SHREDDER is the reigning Computer Chess World Champion for all
types of computers (including mainframes and parallel processor
machines). This title was gained at the official World Championship
1999 in Paderborn (Germany), organised by the International Computer
Chess Association (ICCA). The program by the young German software
engineer Meyer-Kahlen at the same time also won the title of Microcomputer
World Chess Champion for 1999 and retained this title in London
during August 2000.
Information and pictures:
www.computerchess.com
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Sargissian
is Armenian champion
International master Gabriel Sargissian
won the Armenian championship which ended 8th September. The tournament
was not very strong, as Akopian did not participate. Results:
1. Sargissian, Gabriel 2474 6˝
2. Lputian, Smbat G 2598 5˝
3. Yegiazarian, Arsen 2527 5˝
4. Asrian, Karen 2566 5
5. Minasian, Ara 2466 5
6. Aronian, Levon 2551 4˝
7. Anastasian, Ashot 2571 4
8. Nalbandian, Tigran 2465 4
9. Minasian, Artashes 2595 3
10. Danielian, Elina 2389 2
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1576800 minutes
of fame - so far
A recent marketing study revealed
that super-computer Deep Blue still enjoys remarkable celebrity
after downing Garry Kasparov in their man-machine chess duel in
1997. 
The pride of IBM shows rather astonishing prominence in the public's
memory. The silicon beast is about as famous as the very different
Carmen Electra of Baywatch and surprisingly enough, slightly
better known than CNN's star talk show host Larry King.
(see left photo for these three)
Henry Schafer of Marketing Evaluations, which carried out the survey,
summed up: "This computer got its 15 minutes of fame and three
years later we are still counting."
In fact, even though Deep Blue's masters decided to end its chess
career while it was ahead, the computer may have a birght future
as a media star - which may help explain how it can compete with
babes and TV personalities in the popularity stakes.
Blue recently starred in the animated TV show Futurama where
it helped to save the world, fighting alongside renowned physicist
Stephen Hawking as one of Al Gore's "Vice Presidential Action Rangers"!
Kasparov will have a hard time competing with his nemesis in a
PR duel. With Blue taking a Fischer-like "attitude" to risking
its reputation by playing again, the human number one is unlikely
to get revenge over the board.
And it is very hard to picture even the world's most successful
(human) chess player ever stealing as much attention as a Baywatch
beach beauty.
Sources: Associated Press
IBM Deep Blue
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Bacrot
is French Champion
Former child prodigy Etienne Bacrot
dominated the French championships in Vichy. The tournament ran
till 27th August. Second place was won by Iosif Dorfman. Full
results.
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Tkachiev triumphs
over Nisipeanu
The French immigrant GM Vladislav
Tkachiev beat the Fide World Championship semi-finalist, Romanian
GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu 2˝-1˝ in the match of difficult names
(sorry, guys!). The event was organised in Naujac-sur-Mer, France
on August 22nd to 26th. Tkachiev won the 3rd game, which decided
the match.
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Kramnik beats
Leko on TV
Vladimir Kramnik continued to dominate
the German annual WDR TV match, beating Peter Leko with white in
only 32 moves. Kramnik has participated in this rapid play event
since 1996.
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Fide World Cup lineup announced
The Fide World Cup will take place
in Shenyang, China 1st-13th September 2000. The event will be an
elimination tournament.
24 super GM's are competing. Top ranked include Anand, Morozevich,
Ivanchuk, Gelfand, Svidler, Gurevich, Khalifman, Short and Dreev.
More info at: http://www.fide.com.
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