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30.12.2004 What will the coming year bring?
On the eve of the coming of the 2005 year we acquaint our readers with nearest publications that will appear in the beginning of the New Year. The first publication will appear on the 4th of January.
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27.12.2004 Half a century of «Vecherka»
Championships of the city in blitz chess celebrated a jubilee this year – they are 50 years old! The first champion in 1954 was V.Korchnoi, who then for eight times more won such competitions, which were invariably held under the aegis of the newspaper "Vecherniy Petersburg". GM A.Kochiev has still more victories – ten. The last tournament was the first one, at which there was no G.Chepukaitis, the legendary master of blitz. From his six victories Genrikh Mikhailovich gained the first one in 1965 and the last one – in 2002. And it's no wonder that organizers (during the whole half a century the main of them is a sports reporter, veteran of sports journalism V.Semenov) devoted the competition to memory of Chepukaitis.
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27.12.2004 V.Nevzorov "Past, present and future of rating"
The article of the professor of the St.Petersburg State University Valery Nevzorov, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Science, deals with ratings of chess players. As the Elo-system ignores the colour of pieces and, to some extent, a possibility of a drawn result, the author proposes within the limits of existing principles of chess players ranging to make certain changes, directed to more exact and fair calculation of the expected results of chess players. Read the article in the section "Competition" in Russian.
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24.12.2004 S.Dolmatov: "It's not a tragedy!"
On completion of the Coach's Council of the RCF the Head Coach of the man's combined team of Russia GM Sergei Dolmatov gave an exclusive interview to our correspondent Ilya Odessky (in Russian).
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24.12.2004 Bless Alexandra!
Yesterday in the fourth series of the telefilm of S.Govorukhin "Bless a woman" at the first television channel, there appeared on the screen a star of world chess Alexandra Kosteniuk in the role of little Vera and didn't faded even in comparison with famous I.Churikova. Especially successful were the words of the grand master: "The position is drawn". Before the Moscower famous Cuban J.R.Capablanca and our fellow countrymen V.Korchnoi successfully acted in films. By singular coincidence there was going a serial about bandits under the name "Chess player" at other television channel, the Russian channel.
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23.12.2004 Creative results of the World Chess Olympiad
Read the summary of the work of S.Klimov "Chess Olympiad: episodes of the struggle" in English.
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23.12.2004 S.Klimov"Chess Olympiad: episodes of the struggle"
IM S.Klimov reviews the World Chess Olympiad in Calvia. Read the closing part of the work in the section "Competitions" in Russian.

20.12.2004 We recommend you to read!
Today at the website dachess.ru I.Odessky has an interview with the chief executive of the Russian Chess Federation A.Bakh, in which the latter makes an appraisal of the activity of the Federation and its executive directorate in 2004, analyzes the actual state of affairs in Russian chess.

20.12.2004 S.Klimov"Chess Olympiad: episodes of the struggle"
IM S.Klimov reviews the World Chess Olympiad in Calvia. Read the first part of the work in the section "Competitions" in Russian. The ending will appear in the next few days.

16.12.2004 A.F.Ilin-Zhenevsky (28.11.1894 – 3.09.1941)
On the 28th of November there was 110th birthday anniversary of an outstanding chess player and public figure, Petersburger Alexander Fiodorovich Ilin-Zhenevsky. The materials, prepared by candidate of historical sciences S.A.Morozov, are devoted to the anniversary of the Master. Read in the section "History".

16.12.2004 A.Kentler "Sad 100s anniversary of E.Schieffers"
On the 12th of December there was the 100s anniversary of the death of the second-strong chess player in Russia of the XIX century, a brilliant propagandist of chess art, native Petersburger Emanuel Karl Georg (Emmanuel Stepanovich) Schieffers (1850-1904). The material of the web-site editor is devoted to this date. Read in the section "History" in Russian.

16.12.2004 Internet-tournament "In memory of Petrosian".
Teams of four countries (Russia, China, France and Armenia) will took part in the Memorial Internet-tournament in memory of the ninth world chess champion T.Petrosian, who would be 75 years old this year. Each team will play at home. The combined team of Russia consisting of Petersburgers P.Svidler, A.Khalifman, Moscowers A.Dreev and V.Zvjaginsev will be situated in the round restaurant of the hotel "Sankt-Peterburg". The competition will take place on the 18 – 23 of December, rounds will begin at 14 o'clock and will be finished at 21 o'clock. A press-conference will be carried out on Saturday at 13 o'clock. Admission to the competition will be free. The games will be shown online at the web-site petrosian2004.com and at the playing server Internet Chess Club.

14.12.2004 "Portrait of a chess player" – R.Kasimdzhanov
IGM Alexei Bezgodov paints a creative portrait of the FIDE world champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov. Read the article in the section "Creativity" in Russian.

10.12.2004 Sad 100s anniversary of E.Schieffers
On the 12th of December will be the 100s anniversary of the death of the second-strong chess player of Russia in the XIX century Emanuel Karl Georg (Emmanuel Stepanovich) Schieffers (1850-1904). Next week read the material concerned with the Master.

10.12.2004 S.Ivanov "Openings of the super final" (Part II)
The second and concluding part of the work of IGM Sergei Ivanov deals with closed openings, which can be found in the games of the super final of the Chess Championship of Russia of 2004. Read the article in the section "Competitions" in Russian.

06.12.2004 The tournament in memory of K.Aseev
The charity tournament consecrated to memory of early died excellent GM and man Konstantin Aseev took place yesterday in the Chigorin's chess club . At the rapid chess tournament (15 minutes per game to each player) there were a lot of chess players ranged from eight GMs, headed by Peter Svidler, to young champions. Both GMs E.Alekseev and P.Svidler scored 6 points out of 7. Alekseev was awarded the prize of K.Aseev's memory. Third place took N.Vitiugov, who surpassed V.Loginov (5,5 poins each) also in the cumulative sum. GMs S.Ivanov, S.Ionov, M.Novik, master G.Mukhin and candidate master A.Lanin took from V to IX place accordingly. All the participants of the tournament - 63 chess players were awarded special commemoratives.

06.12.2004 S.Ivanov "Openings of the super final"
The first part of the work of IGM Sergei Ivanov deals with open and semi-open openings, which can be found in the games of the super final of the Chess Championship of Russia of 2004. Read the article in the section "Competitions" in Russian. The second part will appear in the next few days.

03.12.2004 A.Bezgodov. "Chigorin's" stories (Part II)
IGM A.Bezgodov - the second best of the XI Tournament in memory of Chigorin - familiarizes the readers with the most interesting fragments of the chess creativity of the fair sex at the tournament. Read the second and the last part of the work in the section "Creativity" (in Russian).

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