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MTel R2: Ivanchuk beats Topalov
09.05.2008 – It was a wild and vicious game, one of the most enjoyable we have seen in a long time. Both sides had chances, and it was the trademark throw-everything-at-the-enemy strategy of Veselin Topalov that failed against Vassily Ivanchuk, possibly the most experienced player in top-level chess. The other games were drawn. Express report.
 

Tweaking Fritz - PART 1
09.05.2008 – In a new ChessBase Workshop series, columnist Steve Lopez examines ways to "tweak up" your Fritz software. The first of the series covers the various settings contained within the "Clocks + Notation" tab of the Options dialogues. Learn more in the latest Workshop.
 

MTel R1: All games decided, Bulgarians lead
08.05.2008 – The first round of the MTel Masters brought three decisive games. Both the "home boys", Veselin Topalov and Ivan Cheparinov, won their games against Levon Aronian and Bu Xiangzhi respectively. And Vassily Ivanchuk scored a shock black-piece victory over Teimour Radjabov. The event is being held in an "aquarium" – a revolutionary concept that just might represent the future of chess.
 

Breaking news: Anand Wins Chess Oscars for 2007
08.05.2008 – The traditional Chess Oscar, which has been conducted (with a break) since 1967, is awarded on the basis of votes cast by chess journalists for the ten best player of the past year. World Champion Anand was selected by 130 experts. In second place was Vladimir Kramnik, and third was Gata Kamsky. This is Anand's fifth Chess Oscar – more than any other non-Russian player.
 

ChessBase Magazine 123: Veni, vidi, Vishy!
08.05.2008 – The new issue of CBM is in large part devoted to Vishy Anand. The world champion and no.1 of the world annotates some of his latest masterpieses from Morelia/Linares and Wijk in audio format. Also top players like Aronian, Radjabov, and Caruana have contributed to the new DVD. 11 opening surveys (Alekhine, Jänisch Gambit etc.) and the regular columns make it a superb training course.
 

Reactions to Milener's draw diagnosis
07.05.2008 – In his recent chess-3 essay Gene Milener claimed that chess variants like shogi indicate that the high draw rate in chess is due to insufficient piece power in the game. He then described a variant that would add piece power while being as close to chess as possible. Reactions to the essay ranged from interest to disdain. Here is a selection of feedback from our readers.
 

Emil Sutovsky's Masterpiece in Miniature
07.05.2008 – Baku, Azerbaijan, seems almost a factory for great chess players. Garry Kasparov, Teimour Radjabov, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Vugar Gashimov, Vladimir Akopian, and the star of today's Playchess show, Emil Sutovsky. Dennis Monokroussos shows us a beautiful attacking game by the now-Israeli GM, played in 2002. See you on the server.
 

Edward Winter's Chess Explorations (1)
06.05.2008 – Moving on from mysteries, the chess historian Edward Winter now turns to myths. Euwe's 'sportsmanship' in playing a rematch against Alekhine in 1937, allegations that Frederick Yates gassed himself, and the Lasker v Janowsky match wrongly called a world title contest. These cases are explored by the Editor of Chess Notes, who sets out the facts here.
 

Baku R13: Gashimov, Wang and Carlsen win Grand Prix
05.05.2008 – There are three winners of the First FIDE Grand Prix in Baku: Vugar Gashimov, Wang Yue and Magnus Carlsen, all of whom ended at 8.0/13 points. The leaders Gashimov and Wang drew their games, while the incredible Magnus Carlsen scored his second win in succession (when it mattered!) to join the leading group. We bring you games, results, prizes, photos and videos.
 

Baku R12: Five wins, two draws, Gashimov and Wang lead
05.05.2008 – Azeri GM Vugar Gashimov defeated Alexander Grischuk to take the lead away from the Russian player. He joined Wang Yue of China in the lead. Magnus Carlsen defeated Michael Adams to join the pursuers half a point behind. Peter Svidler and David Navara won their black games against Gata Kamsky and Teimour Radjabov. Full report with analysis, pictures and videos.
 

GM Nigel's Radio Revs – here to answer your questions
05.05.2008 – Once a week grandmaster Nigel Davies gives live online training on the Playchess server, from 11 p.m. to 12 a.m. UK time. That means it starts at midnight CEST, 6 p.m. New York or 08:00 a.m. Sidney. This time, due to team commitment, the show will be on Tuesday, May 6th. Send in your questions.
 

Plovdiv: Playoffs of the European Individual Championships
04.05.2008 – Sergey Tiviakov and Kateryna Lahno won their titles outright, but there were a number of playoffs for the medals and places in the FIDE World Cup. Reconstruction everything was not easy, but we have tried to prepare a clear overview of the games, results, medal winners and qualifiers. We bring you these together with a big pictorial report from Plovdiv.