Linares reports are available on many websites now. A chess champ needs the killer instinct. Xie Jun-Deep Junior match plagued by Net problems. Kasparov wants to reign until 2004 and Kramnik is in no hurry to be No. 1. FIDE posts communique of Morocco meeting.
- Stephen Leary
Killer Instinct
Killer instinct is needed to be a chess champion. "Chess champions in any match are seeking not to create beauty, or wonderful intellectual patterns or to reach that rare landscape where games, mathematics and poetry coalesce, but simply to win. There is no bid to prettify the objective of wanting to smash your opponents."
KasparovChess.com
The first game of the Cadet "Future World Champion" Match between Bu XiangZhi and Teimor Radjabov was drawn. Live coverage continues this week. The Xie Jun - Deep Junior match has been plagued by internet connection problems. The match is tied after 3 rounds.
TWIC
Daily coverage is planned of the upcoming 9th Amber Tournament. Reports on Linares, Dos Hermanas Internet qualifier, and the Sufe Cup.
El Pais
Garry Kasparov says he wants to reign until 2004. Vladimir Kramnik says he is in no hurry to be the best player in the world. Daily reports from Leontxo Garcia during the Linares tournament.
[In Spanish.]
Super Ajedrez
Reports on the Dos Hermanas Internet tournament, and the women's championship of Costa Rica. Napoleon Bonaparte's chess career.
[In Spanish.]
Obituary of Daniel A. Yanofsky
Daniel "Abe" Yanofsky, Canada's first grandmaster, died of cancer last week.
Chess Mail
Announces the death of Eugene Martinovsky after a long illness. A strong correspondence and OTB player.
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Florencio Campomanes
In his Manila Times column, Campomanes says that chess and tennis are both expressions of active and roving minds that are at home with quick but thoughtful decisions. Karpov's training during championships included tennis with his seconds (Salov, at one time). "And there was Bobby himself, who, however, gave it up when he got clobbered by oldies thirty years his senior. Portisch, Gligoric, Seirawan, Browne, Chandler, to name a few, played tennis too."
Lubomir Kavalek
In his weekly Washington Post column, Kavalek laments the high number of draws at Linares. "Six of the world's best players looked more like bullfighters without the bulls, managing only seven wins out of 30 games." He annotates Khalifman-Leko.
Robert Byrne
In his weekly New York Times column, Byrne says the Kasparov Internet Grand Prix was marred by numerous mishaps. The final match between Kasparov and Piket "was a circus of errors. In the first of the two one-hour-for-all-moves games, Kasparov missed the chance for a sparkling attack and fell into a draw. In the second, he blundered away what should have been a routine drawn ending and lost game and the $20,000 first prize to Piket."
Shelby Lyman
In his weekly column, Shelby recaps the ClubKasparov.com Grand Prix. "The ultimate victim of the ClubKasparov.com tournament format may have been the world champion himself. More than most players, Kasparov's blood lust is aroused by the physical presence of his opponents, who, in turn, are intimidated by his in-their-face aggressiveness."
FIDE
A new chess review section of recent tournaments and matches. Also, the Communique of the recent board meeting in Morocco.
About.com
The crazy, exciting, Fried Liver Attack. The Chess School teaches you the rules of the game. A message board displaying various swindles.
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