Archive for March 9th, 2010

After three rounds in the European Championship Dieter-Liviu Nisipeanu was in the lead. The Romanian GM scored three consecutive wins, including one against Dimitri
Reindermann. Perhaps he was helped in his efforts by an article in ChessBase
Magazine, because in
CBM 132
his compatriot Mihail Marin examined in detail a variation of the Alekhine
Defence, which then was up for discussion in the game. The Dutch player chose a
line which our author had rejected and received the ultimate punishment for
doing so. Marin has provided a few notes on the game, and a thorough analysis
will follow in CBM 136. Here is
Nisipeanu –
Reindermann

We long ago abandoned the practice of sending our readers to every article
or international news report that contains the word “chess”. But when
a Euronews story contains video footage of a world class grandmaster (Boris
Gelfand) playing the Deputy Prime Minister of his country (Natan Sharansky),
who is assisted by the current PM (Benjamin Netanyahu), we make
an exception.