Archive for January 7th, 2010

Professor Kenneth Rogoff is a strong chess grandmaster, who also happens to
be one of the world’s leading economists. In a Project
Syndicate article that appeared this week Ken sees the new decade as
one in which “artificial intelligence hits escape velocity,” with
an economic impact on par with the emergence of India and China. He uses computer
chess to illustrated the point.

Did you know you can get the famous database program, that all the top professionals
use, free of charge? Immediately – like right now? Just download ChessBase
Light and start working with the latest version of our games management software.
How to use the program is explained in the latest ChessBase Workshop installment
by Steven Lopez in streaming
video.

He became a grandmaster at the age of twelve years and seven months –
the youngest in
history. Sergey Karjakin, who turns twenty next Tuesday, is ten months older
than Magnus Carlsen, the current number one in the world rankings. In the magazine
Segodnja Sport the former Ukrainian,
who is lives in and plays for Russia, tells us about his chess programme, marriage
and life in Moscow.