Archive for November 4th, 2009

It was a very fateful final day at the World Junior in Argentina. French GM and top seed Maxime Vachier-Lagrave worked hard to win his final game and catch the leading Sergei Zhigalko from Belarus to take Gold and the title on tiebreak. In the women’s section there was even greater drama. One player missed a special $33,000 prize by a few tiebreak points. Final round report.

How do you create a new database, how do you copy new material into it –
e.g. all Caro-Kann Advanced Variation games from Mega Database – and how
do you correct a database that has become corrupted? These are questions that
are answered by Steven Lopez, who has been providing written ChessBase Workshop
installments for the last twelve years, in his second streaming
video lecture.

At 20:00h CET, IM Merijn van Delft holds his lecture on recent grandmaster
games on the Playchess server. At 9 p.m.
ET (03:00 a.m. CET) FM Dennis Monokroussos talks about the start of the Tal
Memorial in Moscow on Thursday, about chess prodigies in general and Bobby Fischer
in particular, with an instructive 1960 game. Free for Premium members.

It was a very fateful final day at the World Junior in Argentina. French GM and top seed Maxime Vachier-Lagrave worked hard to win his final game and catch the leading Sergei Zhigalko from Belarus to take Gold and the title on tiebreak. In the women’s section there was even greater drama. One player missed a special $33,000 prize by a few tiebreak points. Final round report.