Archive for March 23rd, 2009

Last Saturday there was a press meeting of the Dutch Chess Federation to launch
a new Internet chess project, in partnership with Playchess.
We used the opportunity to visit the Hypercube Blitz tournament, which is held
in Utrecht every year. As chance would have it we barged into a controversy
on how many hands you can legally use in speed chess. Here are the graphic details.

Do you have too many icons in your ChessBase 10’s database window? Is there so much clutter that it’s becoming hard to see the woods for the trees? ChessBase Workshop columnist Steve Lopez just might have the answer for you with an often-overlooked and certainly underused ChessBase 10 feature. You can learn more about it in the latest Workshop.

In round seven of the Blindfold and Rapid Tournament World Champion Vishy Anand and Vladimir Kramnik overtook Levon Aronian to take the shared lead. Magnus Carlsen had no mercy with out-of-form Wang Yue, winning 2-0 and moved up to third place. In the key encounter of round eight Anand defeated Kramnik to take the sole lead, ahead of Aronian and Carlsen. New pictures by John Nunn.