Archive for September 16th, 2009

… for Training and Instruction in Chess. The aim is to help in the development of chess federations in Africa, in the critical areas of introducing chess in schools, raising membership, organizing tournaments, getting finances and obtaining sponsorship. The first week of lectures and activities is to be held in a somewhat controversial location: Khartoum, Sudan. Press release of the TCF.

We reported recently on the event and the results, but with a disgracefully
meager number of pictures. We just didn’t have any – until suddenly our
friend Ye Rongguang, the first
Chinese player in history to gain the GM title, sent us a huge quantity. Rongguang
is an avid photographer with professional equipment. Here is part one of a giant
pictorial: impressions of Ningbo.

We reported recently on the event and the results, but with a disgracefully
meager number of pictures. We just didn’t have any – until suddenly our
friend Ye Rongguang, the first
Chinese player in history to gain the GM title, sent us a huge quantity. Rongguang
is an avid photographer with professional equipment. Here is part one of a giant
pictorial: impressions of Yingbo.

One, the current US Champion, was born in the year the other, a former World
Championship candidate, had just won the Soviet Championship for the third time.
Their scintillating encounter, analysed by Dennis Monokroussos in his Wednesday
night Playchess lecture, took place earlier
this year at the NH Tournament in Amsterdam. Watch and learn on the server.

Some of the best Fritz11 beginner features are the ones which give us hints but require us to think for ourselves. One such feature hints at attacks and defenses but makes us figure out why they work as they do. Intrigued? Check out the latest ChessBase Workshop in which the mysteries are revealed…