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09.03.2005
Sveshnikov answers the ACP questions
During the Aeroflot open 2005 the ACP representative interviewed several well-known chess players on major problems linked with organization of chess competitions. Read the answers given by Evgeny Sveshnikov.
We would also like to inform our readers that the ACP and CJSC "Intellectual Games" signed a contract, according to which the technical and creative support of the ACP website chess-players.org becomes our responsibility. We will do all depending on us to provide the ACP website with interesting materials. During the Aeroflot open we interviewed a number of chess professionals, including Ponomariov, Kosteniuk, Radjabov, Tregubov, Bologan and others. Their answers are given without any editorial cuts: the truth could only be found in a debate...
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09.03.2005
A.Lukin, P.Malysheva – "16 is everywhere!"
16-year-old Polina Malysheva celebrated a victory in 73rd St.Petersburg women championship, a Swiss-system event with only 16 participants. Our new champion and her trainer IM Lukin discuss the championship's results. Read the article in the section "Competitions" in Russian.
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09.03.2005
PEN OF A WUNDERKIND: 11-year-old Nikita Vitiugov
Nikita Vitiugov presents his view on his won game against Muscovite Alexey Kim (a grandmaster now) that took place at the Russian under 12 championship in 1998. Vitiugov made his final grandmaster norm at the Chigorine's Memorial in 2004. Read the article in the section "Creativity" in Russian.
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09.03.2005
Dvoretsky answers the ACP questions
During the Aeroflot open 2005 the ACP representative interviewed several well-known chess players on major problems linked with organization of chess competitions. Read the answers given by Mark Dvoretsky.
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09.03.2005
Korchnoi and Lautier answer the ACP questions
During the Aeroflot open 2005 the ACP representative interviewed several well-known chess players on major problems linked with organization of chess competitions. Read the answers given by Viktor Korchnoi and Joel Lautier.
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09.03.2005
January winners: Anand – Adams and Leko – Svidler
Grandmasters Alexey Bezgodov and Evgeny Najer annotate the best games of January according to our experts. Read the article in the section "Creativity" in Russian.
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09.03.2005
The announcement of our publications
February passed so quickly that we did not have time to publish all materials announced a month ago. We are planning to post an article "Calculating troubles", written by IM Sergey Klimov, in the nearest future, and we already obtained two recent theoretical works by famous analyst Mark Dvoretsky. Also grandmaster Sergey Ionov portrays one of the brightest modern players – Alexey Shirov.
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05.03.2005
PEN OF A WUNDERKIND: 11 years old A.KASHLINSKAYA
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02.03.2005
M.Notkin. "Passing over January"
We managed to publish a review of the best games, played in January, on the last day of February: the month turned out to be too short and the flights of "Aeroflot-open" diverted our columnist - IM Maxim Notkin - from his work. In the nearest future we'll get our readers acquainted with the games V.Anand - M.Adams and P.Leko - P.Svidler with the comments of GMs A.Bezgodov and E.Naer. And somewhere on the holidays, presented to us by women, we'll publish a February list.
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02.03.2005
FIDE Unification Proposal
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has given an interview to Yuri Vasiliev of Sport Express with a World Championship Unification proposal. The decision was taken at the FIDE Presidential meeting in Tbilisi 26th-27th February 2005.
Eight players will be invited: Rustam Kasimdzanov (Fide champion), Michael Adams (Fide runner-up), Vladimir Kramnik (Braingames champion, a very interesting use of terminology), Peter Leko (Braingames runner-up), Garry Kasparov, Viswanathan Anand, Vaselin Topalov and Alexander Morozevich (the four top rated players).
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02.03.2005
N.Vituigov. "Linares. The past"
On the eve of the opening of the 22nd super tournament in Linares, we are publishing an article of Nikita Vitiugov, in which the most interesting fragments of competitions that were carried out in this Spanish town in 1978 - 2004, are collected. Read the article in the section "Creativity" in Russian.
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02.03.2005
"Portrait of a chess player" - Vishi Anand
IGM A.Lugovoi paint at our website an original portrait of the world's most successful chess-player of the last two years. Read in the section "Creativity".
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02.03.2005
PEN OF A WUNDERKIND: 11 years old A.KASHLINSKAYA
Moscower Alina Kashlinskaya, 11 years old, who already was a vice-champion of Europe and a champion of Russian among 10-years-old girls, comments a game, which was played in the first league of the Championship of Russia. It should be added that Alina tied with P.Malysheva for the 17th - 29th places (there were 57 participants at that) with the result 5 points of 9 and left behind many of the famous chess players.
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02.03.2005
Ponomariov-Kramnik is the best game in January
IM Maxim Notkin sums up the results of the experts' polling for the purpose to determine the best games, played in the chess world in January 2005. Until the end of February our readers will acquaint themselves with an analysis of the best works and also with a thorough review of all of the games-pretenders of the month. And already in the first ten days of March a new February list will be published and such a scheme will be held to constantly, every month.
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02.03.2005
S.Ivanov. "The lessons of Wijk aan Zee 2005"
Read the article of the GM Sergei Ivanov, provided with the secondary name "February theses", which sums up the results of the super-tournament in Wijk aan Zee, in the section "Competitions" (in Russian).
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02.03.2005
The fair sex in the "Closed world"
Today the first in the history video-match between chess players of Moscow and St.Petrsburg begins, which will be carried out with the help of technologies, worked out in the company "Intellectual games". Such titled persons as GMs Ludmila Zaitseva (Moscow) and Irina Sudakova (Petersburg), IMs Radmila Popivoda (Moscow) and Nina Sirotkina (Petersburg)…The chess players will play every Monday and every Wednesday during six months: in micro- and macro-matches the players of different generations. There are rewards for the best participants. We will constantly inform our readers about the course of the competition.
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02.03.2005
"Portrait of a chess player" - Evgeny Bareev
IGM Denis Evseev paints a creative portrait of one of the strongest grand masters of Russia and of the world. Read the article in the section "Creativity"
02.03.2005
Mark DVORETSKY. EXCHANGE OF QUEENS. Part 3
Read the third and the concluding part of the new investigative work of Mark Dvoretsky in the section "Creativity".
02.03.2005
Korchnoi in the "Closed world".
Yesterday V.Korchnoi, who came with his wife in his native city, took part in a demonstration of new technologies, worked up by the company "Intellectual games" specially for realization of the program "Closed world".
Viktor Lvovich was present at the practice games between GMs M.Taimanov and S.Smagin. Our GM played in St.Petrsburg, and the Head of the Petrosian's Chess club - in Moscow.
See the photos, taken during this event, in the Russian section under the heading of "Closed world".
02.03.2005
V.Korchnoi. "The USA". A chapter from the book.
Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi has kindly let our website issue a chapter from his autobiographical book that is being prepared for the press and is going to be published this year in AST publishing house. Read it in the section "Creativity" in Russian.
