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The program includes:
- More than 1170 tactical positions classified by themes and difficulty
- Refutations of wrong moves as well as other hints to help find the correct answer
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Special offer comes into effect February 1!
On purchasing Chess Assistant 7.1 or any of its upgrades since February 1
at our online store
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- A database CD of 2 240 000 games (collected up to 01.01.2004)
- Chess Assistant Magazine 2004 (commented game service)
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Rijeka (Croatia) It(w)
Despite the general nervous atmosphere that established in the modern chess world, there is at
least one pleasant trend - the popularization of women's round-robin tournaments. Few years ago,
the fair sex could only dream about such number of competitions.
One of such tournaments (Mediterranean flowers) has been held in Rijeka, Croatia.
Among the 10 participants there were 3 grandmasters and 3 international masters including
the Russian player from St. Petersburg Irina Sudakova waiting for conferment of the grandmaster
title. The charming Russian did well in the tournament having achieved the second result with
6 points out of 9. The top seed, the Slovak player Eva Repkova sufficed with 3-4 position together
with the Croatian international master Vlasta Macek, having scored both 5.5 points.
The Hungarian grandmaster Monica Grabic won the first prize with 7 points.
Five wins and not a single defeat - this is rather an excellent performance!
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Linares (ESP), 19.02-5.03.2004
It (cat. 20) (2731)
Final standings: 1. Kramnik - 7.0; 2-3. Kasparov, Leko - 6.5; 4-5 Radjabov, Topalov - 6.0; 6-7. Shirov, Vallejo - 5.0.
An opening can partially be blamed for it - White often abstains from the Sveshnikov system in the
Sicilian defense, while the 'tasteless' positions after 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 e5 usually lead
to quick simplifications and even Kasparov himself cannot help it. I think, to make the traditional
tournament more spectacular signore Rentero, instead of imposing restrictions on the number of moves
(as he did earlier), must ban the Sveshnikov system or declare a prize for its complete refutation!
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Games annotated by GM E.GLEIZEROV and GM A.LASTIN
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Sofia (BUL), 1.01.2004
Anand - Topalov TV Blitz
A TV blitz match took place in Sofia, Bulgaria between Vishwanathan Anand and Veselin Topalov,
It was organized by a local telecommunication company. The match had an extra pretext, at least
for the spectators - if not for the players themselves. It was Veselin Topalov who delivered a single
defeat to Anand in a recent Wijk aan Zee Corus tournament. The match consisted of two 15-minutes games
and a tie-break was to be played after the drawing outcome - 5 minutes White, 4 minutes Black.
However, the tie break was not needed there.
Games annotated by IM B.SAMBUEV
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Brissago (SUI), 29.01.2004
Kramnik vs German Team Simultaneous
On the 29th of January 2004 Vladimir Kramnik won a simultaneous match against the German National
Team including grandmasters Christopher Lutz, Rustem Dautov, Klaus Bischoff and the veteran of the
German chess Dr. Robert Huebner. All four of them are quite firm grandmasters though not the elite
ones.
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Games annotated by IM A.DEVYATKIN
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Wijk aan Zee (NED), 10-25.01.2004
It, cat. XIX (2702)
The chess festival has been held in this small resort town situated on the North Sea
coast since 1938. It was a single occasion, when they failed to conduct the tournament -
in 1945, when transport in Netherlands was paralyzed due to warfare. The festival
was back already in 1946; moreover, famous foreign chess players gathered there too.
Beginning from 50s of XX century the tournament becomes one of the world's leading
competitions, and the majority of the world chess elite played there.
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Annotated Games #23
Annotated Games #22
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GM W.Anand
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Wijk aan Zee (Netherlands), 10-25.01.2004
It, cat. XIII (2561)
1. Bruzon - 9.0; 2. Dominguez - 8.5; 3. Fressinet - 8.0;
4-5. Nakamura, Granda - 7.5; 6-8. Stellwagen, Naiditsch, Tiviakov - 6.5;
9. Stefanova - 6.0; 10. Zhu Chen - 5.5; 11-13. Hamdouchi, Nijboer, Lobron - 5.0;
14. Van der Wiel - 4.5.
Games annotated by GM S.TIVIAKOV
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NAO — Chess
The NAO Chess club (France) held a match of two consultation games using SMS-messages.
Radzhabov, Pavlovich, Nataf played vs. Fressine, Lautier, Svidler. Having attracted
a major attention, the match ended in a draw 1:1.
Games commented by IM B.Sambuev
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Pamplona (ESP), 20-28.12.2003
It, cat. XV
1-3. Illescas Cordoba, McShane, Sutovsky - 4.5; 4. Bologan - 3.5;
5-6. Romero Holmes, Nakamura - 3.0; 7-8. Karjakin, Pelletier - 2.5
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19th World Computer Chess Championship 2003 (WMCCC),
Graz 22-30.11.2003
The world championship among the computer programs has been held in.
The winners were all the same - Shredder, Deep Fritz, Deep Junior.
They demonstrated the same 'computer' play though some games produced
impression that they were played by human players.
1-2. Shredder, Fritz - 9.5 из 11; 3. DEEP Junior - 9.0; 4. Brutus - 8.5;
5-6. Green Light, DIEP - 6.0; 7-8. CHINITO, PARSOS - 5.0;
9-11. QUARK, FALCON, DEEP SJENG - 4.5; 12-13. LIST, JONNY - 4.0;
14. NEXUS - 3.5; 15. HOSSA - 2.5; 16. RUY LOPEZ - 2.0.
Games commented by IM B.Sambuev
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San Salvador, It (open)
An open tournament has completed in San Salvador, the capitol of Salvador in the Central America.
The Israeli GM Viktor Mikhalevsky won it scoring 7.5 points out of 9. The experts noted successful
performance of participants from the Latin America - Sergio Minero from Costa Rica won the second
prize yielding to the winner of competition only in additional coefficients. Carlos Juares from
Guatemala was the fifth in the tournament table, scoring equal number of points with the Russian
GM Kiriakov. However, the tournament was not uniform in its competition and the winner won
a lot of games thanks to his obviously superior class.
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GM Kiriakov
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MODERN CHESS OPENINGS
Sicilian Defense
French Defense
The series of programs called "Modern Chess Openings" is aimed at a wide range of players,
from club level upwards, and consists of a number of volumes on the most popular modern
openings. We hope that these programs will help our users to play their favorite openings
well, while eliminating the danger of "drowning" in the flood of opening information.
"Modern Chess Openings" has the aim of revealing to its users the conceptual sense of the openings
and their inseparable links with the middlegame, demonstrating typical plans, procedures,
and tactical subtleties characteristic of the opening in question. At the same time,
the user will gain a complete impression of the modern theoretical situation. For this purpose,
"Modern Chess Openings" contains complete games played in the last ten years, thus combining
recent achievements in theory with examples of middlegame strategy. This approach enables
the series to be used in several ways: as a reference program on opening theory, as a source
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Encyclopedia of Middlegame III
This course was composed by GM Kalinin. It is aimed at teaching a student much of the
middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes over
520 games/lectures, each of them illustrating typical plans and methods in the following
openings: Petroff's defense, Ruy Lopez (Marshall var.), Sicilian defense
(Closed System and 3.  b5 var),
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Kasparov vs. Fritz X3D match, New York (USA),
11-18.11.2003
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| X3D FRITZ | ---- | = | 1 | 0 | = | 2.0 |
| Kasparov Garry | 2830 | = | 0 | 1 | = | 2.0 |
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Games commented by IM B.Sambuev
Games commented by IM B.Sambuev
On 11th of November the match X3D Fritz - Kasparov started. For the first time,
the 13th world champion plays inside the virtual reality using the special glasses.
The leading sporting channel of the USA relays the encounter of man and computer
in real time.
According to the developers of the computer program, their creature has good chances for a win.
They put it in a rather straight way: 'If a board lays on the ground, then the task is simple,
but when it is higher for a 100 meters, then you grow nervous before each next step.
If Gary tames his nerves, then he wins; if he is nervous, then the computer wins.'
Kasparov compares his encounter with Star Wars' subject. People managed to find a vulnerable
spot in a seemingly impregnable Death Start and destroyed it.
We shall find out, how this battle of man and computer ends on the 19th of November, when game
4 of the match will be over.
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Bastia (France),
28.10-3.11.2003
Amongst the all traditional French tournaments, the Bastia (Corsica) open tournament
is definitely one of the major events. So far as the Corsicans consider themselves
not quite the Frenchmen, perhaps, they would like to stand slightly apart in the chess too.
The strongest players are attracted there by a nice prize fund. The entire higher half
of the rating list played there!
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GM Topalov — GM Shirov
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Selfoss (ISL),
29.10-7.11.2003, It(cat. 15)
The second "Milk" tournament has been held in Iceland. It is rather a serious competition
of XV category, where only one native grandmaster had rating below 2500. Apart from
the two 'hosting' grandmaster, the eight other ones came from eight different countries.
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Annotated Games
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Curasao (AHO),
25.10-3.11.2003
A rather strong tournament has been held on the Curasao island. An interest for chess was
evoked at Curasao after the last year tournament that was dedicated to a famous candidate
tournament's 40th anniversary.
There were two veterans among the grandmasters who shared 1-4 places, the players who were
born in 40s (the American Boris Gulko and the German Robert Huebner). In Curasao-62 the fourth
place was conquered by Robert Fischer, who just had spread his wings being born in the same decade.
Together with Gulko and Huebner, Alexander Shabalov (USA) and Alon Greenfeld (Israel) scored
6.5 points out of 9 possible. According to the system of coefficients, Boris Gulko has been
declared a winner.
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f5??
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d4 3.
g7 4.
