Archive for April 7th, 2009

The tradition of trash talking is by no means new to chess. In 1925 Ukrainian-German
grandmaster Efim Bogoljubow wrote some fairly nasty stuff about José Raúl
Capablanca, and three years later was humiliated by the great Cuban in a highly
instructive game which our Playchess
lecturer Dennis Monokroussos will show us on Wednesday night (Thursday morning
in Europe). 9 p.m. ET.

The city of Hamburg is divided in two parts by a river and lake. Every year for the last 51 years there has been a traditional chess tournament between schools located to the left and to the right of the Alster. This year the students from the left bank won the match by just nine points. At the same time one school was playing matches against teams in Madrid and Durban.
Pictorial report.

There are numerous ways to configure your ChessBase 10’s “database desktop”, which is the first thing you see when you launch the program. It lets you navigate to a database anywhere on your computer. The latest edition of our ChessBase Workshop shows you how to find a configuration for the desktop which is exactly right for you. Steve Lopez explains.