Budapest (Hungary) It (cat. XVII) 11th-20th April

Peter Leko is preparing for his match with Vladimir Kramnik. The Hungarian organizers decided to support their compatriot candidate by conducting a XVII category tournament in Budapest, where five native top players and five foreign ones took part. Incidentally the question about the strongest Hungarian player had been decided. However, the tournament failed to give a clear answer, since Judith Polgar had finished ahead of Peter Leko by 0.5 point but lost their personal encounter.
Nigel Short celebrated the victory in the tournament, having demonstrated his best qualities. Couple years ago, Short, the world vice champion 1993 promised not to play in the super tournaments anymore, but awoke from his everlasting slumbers in Budapest indeed and confirmed his expertise in the Sicilian defense as White.

Commented Games

Moscow championship

For the second year in a row, the knock-out system is implemented in Moscow championship. The prize fund of the tournament is as high as $10.000. The winner obtains $3.000, the second and the third players – $2.000 and $1.000 respectively. The starting list includes the grandmasters Vladimir Malakhov, Mikhail Kobalia, Evgeny Naer and Sergei Shipov. Eight former champions take part in the event.
The players of the elder generation performed brilliantly in round 1. Ratmir Kholmov beat Alexei Korotylev and Evgeny Vasiukov outplayed Evgeny Dragomaretsky. Yuri Balashov and Sergei Yuferov got their matches drawn against Vladimir Potkin and Vladimir Belov respectively. And in additional rapid games with the time control 15 minutes per game, the veterans demonstrated their class by winning 2:0 both.

Commented Games

For Chess Assistant 7.0 users attention:

Chess Assistant 7.1, build 722 is downloadable for free

New mode of obtaining new games (10,000 New Games Monthly for free) and upgrading your program.
Beginning with CA 7.1, build 721, the program features significantly improved function of upgrading your software and refreshing your game database. With the new Update functions you can download new games, as well as:
1) Perform some planned operations (scripts), for example, attach the subscription(s) to the Hugebase or some other game database;
2) Upgrade the main executable file of your program;
3) Upgrade the auxiliary files;
4) Program can execute upgrading automatically after the scheduled time intervals;
5) Using the script system, you can define what to do with downloaded files. You may either save the obtained game databases unchanged, or attach them to Hugebase or some other game database. The scripts offered are the sequences of commands performed on the game databases of Chess Assistant. You can view/assign scripts using the main menu item Tree/ Scripts/ Manager.

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