Archive for August 28th, 2009

The recently improved “Reference” function of ChessBase Light 2009 is useful for more than just work on the opening. It is a powerful tool to use to prepare for a specific opponent. You can access and evaluate the relevant games quickly and simply, e.g. with a click of the mouse in the player index. This is vitally important for tournament and correspondence players. Take a look…

This event is not just about the hundred or so players who compete for the $30,000 prize money. It gives the participants an opportunity to get a feel for the Arabian culture, to meet the people and see their way of life. Fortunately we have a diligent reporter with a good camera and a great eye for visuals, who sent us this massive pictorial report. Impressions by Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh.

The Berlin Defence keeps on going and going and going. Many players avoid it,
but those who accept the challenge find themselves, after only nine moves, in
a position from which it is extremely difficult to win the game. Yet, GM Vugar
Gashimov of Azerbaijan won the said endgame twice in the 10th Poikovsky tournament,
one of the top events you will finde in
the latest CBM 131 – and here is one of the two games with his own
annotations, which you can replay on our JavaScript board: Gashimov
– Naiditsch.