Archive for August 31st, 2009

World Champion Viswanathan Anand in Botswana

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Whenever Sheela Raja Ram looks out of her office window in Gaborone she sees students playing chess during class breaks. This made the Botswana managing director of the Indian technology company NIIT decide to bring over the their spokesperson on a goodwill tour. Vishy Anand received a warm welcome, especially since he is the first World Champion to visit the country.

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Minimize your errors

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Sometimes it is soothing to see even top players err in
calculation. But that is cold comfort when you are faced with
your own failures over the board. We mortals can only try to minimize them. Steve Goldberg from
chesscafe.com
has
reviewed Danny King’s new DVD “Calculation” and found it a very well suited tool for
this purpose.
Buy
Powerplay 10 now
or read more.

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