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- New Kasparov-Kramnik mini-site and the launch of a Fantasy Chess Competition. http://www.chesscenter.com/wcc2000/
- Malcolm Pein resigns as Technical Director of the Braingames World Chess Championships
- Najdorf Chess Festival with Karpov, Polgar, Short and others in a 9 round Cat XIV (2577) round 5 results and games.
- The match between Nicholas Pert and Murray Chandler ran September 14th-19th 2000 and was drawn 3-3. The FIDE rated match was part of Pert's Terence Chapman Award Scheme Gold award for English Juniors. Terence Chapman was himself was a strong Junior and British Under 14 champion in 1970. He instituted a number of annual awards for English Juniors this year, Pert took the 1000 pound Gold award and six others won 500 pounds. Chapman heads the IT consultancy services and software company the Terence Chapman Group which also sponsors the BCF Grand Prix. Game one was drawn, Chandler won game two. Pert leveled by winning game three. Chandler retook the lead by winning game 4. Game 5 was won by Pert. PGN Games 1-6 and View the Games 1-6 in Javascript
- Internet Book: Links wanted. I am compiling a book on internet chess. If you have a chess page or internet chess service you think should be included you can send me an E-Mail at: mdcrowth@netcomuk.co.uk Please head the mail Internet Book as I receive a lot of mail per day. A brief description of the site including the languages used would be nice. Even if you think I know about the site you can still send me a mail as I don't want to leave anything obvious out. Mark Crowther
- TWIC306 of September 18th 2000Games and results from 1st FIDE World Cup, World Championship Zonal 1.1, Harry Golombek Memorial, First Saturday September, Terence Chapman Award Pert-Chandler Match, Nordic FIDE Zonal, Nordic Net Club Cup, World Seniors, Herzeliya International, Miguel Najdorf Chess Festival, The New York State Championship, Larisa Yudina Honoured, Cesenatico Open and Shirov On-Line Simul in an issue with 989 games.
- Links to World Senior Championships
- FIDE World Cup concludes. Viswanathan Anand and Xu Yuhua are the winners .
- World Championship Zonal 1.1. With 6 qualifiers in total: Lautier on 8/11 and Speelman and Van Wely on 7.5/11 secured three of the six places. Late in the day Jeroen Piket and Igor-Alexandre Nataf took the next two places scoring 7.0/11 after all those on 6 points drew. Ten players finished on 6.5/11 and play for the final place on Friday. They are John Emms, Sergei Tiviakov, Chrstiphe Bauer, Michele Godena, Josef Dorfman, Tony Miles and Luis Comas, Oscar de la Riva, Dimitri Reinderman and Jonathan Parker. Sergei Tiviakov and Michele Godena won their playoff groups and in their playoff for the final place Godena won.
- The XXXVII Rubinstein Memorial in Polanica Zdroj Round 9 final. In round 9 Gelfand agreed a quick draw to finish 1st on 6.5/9, Loek Van Wely and Alexei Shirov could not win to join him. Pavel Eljanov won the open A.
- MSO final results and some round 1-8 games.
- Latest John Watson reviews: Review #27: Coping With the Flood, Part 1 and Review #28: MCO 14 (in part, vs. NCO)
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Latest News
Malcolm Pein resigns as Technical Director of the Braingames World Chess Championships
Malcolm Pein (he is managing director of Chess and Bridge sponsors of TWIC) was the Technical Director of the Braingames World Chess Championships which start in October in London. On Friday 22nd of September he released the following press statement:
Malcolm Pein resigns as Technical Director of the World Chess Championship
With great regret I have to announce my resignation as Technical Director of the World Chess Championship between Garry Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik to be held this October in London. This is due to serious professional differences with the management of Braingames Network PLC.
I have enjoyed working with the players. The fact that they are friends off the board has helped enormously. We have waited five years for Garry to defend his title and I am sure this contest will live up to our expectations. I am looking forward to every move.
Malcolm Pein
22nd September 2000
Najdorf Chess Festival
The Super Final of the Najdorf Chess Festival takes place September 18th-27th 2000. The favourites all won in the first round but Karpov looked in big trouble against Flores before winning. In round 2 Short and Karpov won and led with 2/2. In round 3 Karpov won against to lead with 3/3 ahead of Judit Polgar on 2.5/3 who beat Nigel Short the previous joint leader.
PGN Round 1-5 Games
Round 1 (September 18, 2000)
Polgar, Judit - Leitao, Rafael 1-0 41 B90 Sicilian Defence (Najdorf Variation, Deviations)
Pierrot, Facundo - Milov, Vadim 1/2 58 B42 Sicilian Defence (Paulsen Variation)
Flores, Diego - Karpov, Anatoly 0-1 42 B22 Sicilian Defence (Alapin Variation)
Ricardi, Pablo - Bologan, Viktor 0-1 54 B12 Caro Kann (Advance Variation)
Milos, Gilberto - Short, Nigel D 0-1 28 C18 French Defence (Winawer Variation)
Round 2 (September 19, 2000)
Karpov, Anatoly - Milos, Gilberto 1-0 38 E05 Catalan System
Short, Nigel D - Pierrot, Facundo 1-0 37 B31 Sicilian Defence (Rossolimo Variation)
Bologan, Viktor - Leitao, Rafael 1/2 55 B90 Sicilian Defence (Najdorf Variation, Deviations)
Milov, Vadim - Polgar, Judit 1/2 50 E49 Nimzo Indian Defence (Normal Variation)
Ricardi, Pablo - Flores, Diego 1/2 50 E60 King's Indian Defence (without Nc3)
Round 3 (September 20, 2000)
Polgar, Judit - Short, Nigel D 1-0 43 C11 French Defence
Leitao, Rafael - Milov, Vadim 1/2 22 B42 Sicilian Defence (Paulsen Variation)
Pierrot, Facundo - Karpov, Anatoly 0-1 37 B92 Sicilian Defence (Najdorf Variation with 6.Be2)
Flores, Diego - Bologan, Viktor 0-1 48 B06 Modern Defence
Milos, Gilberto - Ricardi, Pablo 0-1 36 B33 Sicilian Defence (Lasker/Pelikan/Sveshnikov Variation)
Round 4 (September 21, 2000)
Bologan, Viktor - Milov, Vadim 1-0 39 B43 Sicilian Defence (Paulsen Variation)
Karpov, Anatoly - Polgar, Judit 1/2 40 E15 Queen's Indian Defence (Main Line - Deviations)
Short, Nigel D - Leitao, Rafael 1-0 47 B92 Sicilian Defence (Najdorf Variation with 6.Be2)
Ricardi, Pablo - Pierrot, Facundo 1/2 19 B45 Sicilian Defence (Classical System)
Flores, Diego - Milos, Gilberto 0-1 22 B22 Sicilian Defence (Alapin Variation)
Round 5 (September 22, 2000)
Polgar, Judit - Ricardi, Pablo 1/2 60 B47 Sicilian Defence (Paulsen Variation)
Milov, Vadim - Short, Nigel D 1/2 58 E59 Nimzo Indian Defence (Normal Variation)
Pierrot, Facundo - Flores, Diego 1-0 68 C99 Ruy Lopez (Tchigorin Variation)
Leitao, Rafael - Karpov, Anatoly 1/2 19 B17 Caro Kann
Milos, Gilberto - Bologan, Viktor 1/2 27 C99 Ruy Lopez (Tchigorin Variation)
Round 5 Standings: 1. Bologan, Viktor g MDA 2641 4.0; 2. Karpov, Anatoly g RUS 2699 4.0; 3. Polgar, Judit g HUN 2656 3.5; 4. Short, Nigel D g ENG 2677 3.5; 5. Ricardi, Pablo g ARG 2488 2.5; 6. Milov, Vadim g SUI 2626 2.0; 7. Pierrot, Facundo m ARG 2423 2.0; 8. Leitao, Rafael g BRA 2567 1.5; 9. Milos, Gilberto g BRA 2633 1.5; 10. Flores, Diego ARG 2358 0.5;
Internet coverage: http://www.adrian.roldan.com or http://www.adrianroldan.com/
Nicholas Pert vs Murray Chandler Match Drawn
Murray Chandler vs Nicholas Pert
The match between Nicholas Pert and Murray Chandler ran September 14th-19th 2000 and was drawn 3-3. The FIDE rated match was part of Pert's Terence Chapman Award Scheme Gold award for English Juniors. Terence Chapman was himself was a strong Junior and British Under 14 champion in 1970. He instituted a number of annual awards for English Juniors this year, Pert took the 1000 pound Gold award and six others won 500 pounds. Chapman heads the IT consultancy services and software company the Terence Chapman Group which also sponsors the BCF Grand Prix.
Game one was drawn, Chandler won game two. Pert leveled by winning game three. Chandler retook the lead by winning game 4 but Pert again brought the match level with one game to go with another win. The final game was drawn.PGN Games 1-6 and View the Games 1-6 in Javascript
There are regular updates from the final game 6.
Chandler,M (2526) - Pert,N (2455) - Terence Chapman Match London ENG (6), 19.09.2000
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Qa5 7.Bd2 Qa4 8.Qg4 g6 9.Qd1 b6 10.h4 Ba6 11.Bxa6 Nxa6 12.Ne2 h5 13.Bg5 Rc8 14.0-0 Ne7 15.Bf6 Rf8 16.Qd2 Nb8 17.Rfb1 Nd7 18.dxc5 Rxc5 19.Rb4 Qa6 20.Nd4 Nxf6 21.exf6 Nc6 22.Nxc6 Rxc6 23.Rd1 Kd8 24.Qf4 Kc8 25.Ra4 Qb7 26.c4 Rd8 27.cxd5 Rxd5 28.Rxd5 exd5 29.c4 Rxc4 30.Rxc4+ dxc4 31.Qxc4+ Qc7 32.Qe4 a5 33.g3 Qd7 34.Qc4+ Kd8 35.a4 Qc7 36.Qd4+ Kc8 37.Qd5 Qd7 38.Qe4 Kc7 ½-½
World Seniors
The 10th World Senior Championships are taking place September 10th-24th, 2000 in the small village of Rowy in Poland. The event is open to men born in 1939 or earlier and women in 1949 or earlier).
Internet Coverage: http://www.szachista.home.pl/. Official site: http://www.powiat.Slupsk.pl or http://www.powiat.Slupsk.pl/chess
World Junior Championships
The World Junior Championships are taking place in Yerevan, Armenia. September 18th- October 2nd 2000.
Internet Coverage: http://www.armchess.am/wjgcc2000.html
Children's Chess Olympiad
The Children's Chess Olympiad is taking place in Artek, Ukraine. September 9th-21st 2000.
Internet Coverage: http://www.artek.org.ua/
Regular Features
European Club Cup
The XVI European Club Cup takes place in Bosnia September 24th-30th 2000.
Internet Coverage: http://www.eurocup2000-bosna.com/index1.htm
Completed Chess Events
Anand and Xu Yuhua winners at the FIDE World Cup
The 1st FIDE World Cup took place in Shenyang, China 1st-13th September 2000. Viswanathan Anand and Xu Yuhua were the winners .
Finalists Anand and Bereev
Live internet coverage at: http://www.worldchesscup.com/or
http://www.sy.ln.cn/chess/applete/wcc.htm
Additional FIDE coverage at: http://www.fide.org/fide/html/review/Shenyang/index.html
PGN Knockout Games (Finals complete)
PGN Knockout Games (Semi-Finals Complete)
PGN Knockout Games (Round 1 complete)
PGN Preliminary Gamescores complete.
Individual Results and Standings for the Preliminary Groups
The event was in the following format: The 24 entrants were initially split into four groups of six players for the all-play-all preliminary sections which took place September 1st-5th 2000. The top two players in each group went forward to the knockout stages (ties were resolved via playoffs on September 5th). Knockout stages: Quarter Finals 7th-8th September, Semi-Finals 9th-10th September, Finals 12th-13th September. Each knockout match was over two games with ties being resolved by playoff games at faster timerates. [Link to the regulations on FIDE's site]
Men's and Women's Finals
Day 1 (September 12, 2000)
Bareev, Evgeny - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 0-1
Zhukova, Natalia - Xu Yuhua 1/2 0-1
Semi-Final Results Men:
Day 2 (September 10, 2000)
Anand, Viswanathan - Gelfand, Boris 1/2 1/2 Anand won the Playoff 2.5-1.5
Milos, Gilberto - Bareev, Evgeny 1/2 1/2 Bareev won the Playoff 1.5-0.5
Semi-Final Results Women:
Zhukova, Natalia - Hoang Thanh Trang 1/2 1-0
Cramling, Pia - Xu Yuhua 1-0 0-1 Xu Yuhua won the Playoff 2-1
Quarter Final Results Men:
Day 2 (September 7, 2000)
Top Half
Milos, Gilberto - Movsesian, Sergei 1/2 1/2 Milos won the Playoff 2-1
Bareev, Evgeny - Azmaiparashvili, Zurab 0-1 1-0 Bareev won the Playoff 1.5-0.5
Bottom Half
Gelfand, Boris - Ye Jiangchuan 1-0 0-1 Gelfand won the Playoff 1.5-0.5
Ivanchuk, Vassily - Anand, Viswanathan 0-1 1/2
Quarter Final Results Women:
Day 2 (September 7, 2000)
Top Half
Cramling, Pia - Zhu Chen 1-0 1/2
Wang Yu - Xu Yuhua 1/2 0-1
Bottom Half
Wang Pin - Zhukova, Natalia 0-1 1/2
Hoang Thanh Trang - Qin Kanying 1/2 1-0
Preliminary Groups Final Standings
See TWIC306 of September 18th 2000
World Championship Zonal 1.1
World Championship Zonal 1.1 took place in Mondariz, Spain September 3rd-15th 2000. The event is an 11 round Swiss. There were six places in the FIDE Championships available. Federations involved Spain, England, France, Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Scotland, Luxembourg, Andorra, Ireland, Wales, Guernsey, Jersey, Monaco and San Marino.Players from this Zone who had already qualified to play in the FIDE World Championships by rating or performance in the last FIDE event were Michael Adams and Nigel Short (ENG) Alexei Shirov (ESP), Mikhail Gurevich (BEL) and Etienne Bacrot (FRA). As a result of the Zonal Joel Lautier (FRA), Loek Van Wely (NED), Jon Speelman (ENG), Jeroen Piket (NED), Igor-Alexandre Nataf (FRA) and Michele Godena (ITA).
Final Round in brief: Early result were Lautier 1/2 Van Wely, Speelman 1/2 Piket. With 6 qualifiers in total: Lautier on 8/11 and Speelman and Van Wely on 7.5/11 secured three of the six places. Late in the day Jeroen Piket and Igor-Alexandre Nataf took the next two places scoring 7.0/11 after all those on 6 points drew. Ten players finished on 6.5/11 and play for the final place on Friday. They are John Emms, Sergei Tiviakov, Chrstiphe Bauer, Michele Godena, Josef Dorfman, Tony Miles and Luis Comas, Oscar de la Riva, Dimitri Reinderman and Jonathan Parker.
Sergei Tiviakov and Michele Godena won their playoff groups and in the playoff for the final place Godena won.
Games from rounds 1-11 in PGN
Games from playoffs in PGN
Final Standings: 1. Lautier, Joel g FRA 2648 8.0; 2. Van Wely, Loek g NED 2643 7.5; 3. Speelman, Jonathan S g ENG 2623 7.5; 4. Nataf, Igor-Alexandre g FRA 2526 7.0; 5. Piket, Jeroen g NED 2649 7.0; 6. Godena, Michele g ITA 2485 6.5; 7. Tiviakov, Sergei g NED 2608 6.5; 8. Reinderman, Dimitri g NED 2551 6.5; 9. Bauer, Christian g FRA 2562 6.5; 10. Dorfman, Josif D g FRA 2600 6.5; 11. Miles, Anthony J g ENG 2584 6.5; 12. Parker, Jonathan m ENG 2539 6.5; 13. De la Riva Aguado, Oscar m AND 2462 6.5; 14. Emms, John M g ENG 2527 6.5; 15. Comas Fabrego, Luis g ESP 2516 6.5; 16. Nijboer, Friso g NED 2537 6.0; 17. Chuchelov, Vladimir g BEL 2535 6.0; 18. Hauchard, Arnaud m FRA 2539 6.0; 19. Fressinet, Laurent m FRA 2536 6.0; 20. Van den Doel, Erik g NED 2547 6.0; 21. Arlandi, Ennio m ITA 2437 5.5; 22. Vallejo Pons, Francisco g ESP 2554 5.5; 23. David, Alberto g LUX 2487 5.5; 24. Degraeve, Jean-Marc g FRA 2540 5.5; 25. Narciso Dublan, Marc m ESP 2507 5.5; 26. Conquest, Stuart g ENG 2529 5.5; 27. San Segundo Carrillo, Pablo g ESP 2500 5.5; 28. Hodgson, Julian M g ENG 2640 5.5; 29. Magem Badals, Jordi g ESP 2482 5.0; 30. Dutreeuw, Marc m BEL 2402 5.0; 31. Bellini, Fabio m ITA 2484 5.0; 32. Efimov, Igor g ITA 2520 5.0; 33. Reinaldo Castineira, Roi f ESP 2416 5.0; 34. Moreno, Javier m ESP 2515 4.5; 35. Fernando, Diogo POR 2257 4.5; 36. Galego, Luis m POR 2419 4.5; 37. Jonkman, Harmen m NED 2424 4.5; 38. Plaskett, Jim g ENG 2525 4.5; 39. Claesen, Pieter m BEL 2416 4.5; 40. Ryan, Joseph IRL 2291 4.5; 41. Norris, Alan J f SCO 2299 4.0; 42. Grant, Jonathan SCO 2208 3.5; 43. McMahon, Daire IRL 2246 2.0;
Live internet coverage: http://www.ajedrez21.com additional coverage and photos http://www.infoxadrez.com/
Kramnik-Leko TV Game
Vladimir Kramnik beat Peter Leko in the WDR TV Match in Koeln, Germany. Kramnik had white but had to beat Leko to play in next years event which he did in only 32 moves of this g/60 live TV game. Game in PGN
Future Events
The Week in Chess Founded and edited by Mark Crowther.
TWIC digest brings together reports of the week's chess news along with a computer readable games section in multiple formats. The latest issueTWIC306 of September 18th 2000Games and results from 1st FIDE World Cup, World Championship Zonal 1.1, Harry Golombek Memorial, First Saturday September, Terence Chapman Award Pert-Chandler Match, Nordic FIDE Zonal, Nordic Net Club Cup, World Seniors, Herzeliya International, Miguel Najdorf Chess Festival, The New York State Championship, Larisa Yudina Honoured, Cesenatico Open and Shirov On-Line Simul in an issue with 989 games.
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TWIC TV
TWIC TV in English One hour of Chess on TV every week with Diagonale. This week: Monday 2nd July 16.30 CET 15.30 BST 10.30 EST or any time from the archives. With GM Eloi Relange and IM Malcolm Pein More detailed coverage of the world's top ten at the Frankfurt Chess Classic with analysis of two great games by Anand as he makes the French Defence look like a forced loss !. We look at Anand 1-0 Morozevich and Anand 1-0 Shirov. Plus the week's other chess headlines.
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Book Reviews by John Watson
John Watson returns after a break due to illness with a new set of book reviews, see his 17th review on books on the English and the Sicilian. Watson is a respected writer whose last book "Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy" [GAMBIT] won BCF book of the year.
Review #15: Review of Kings, Commoners, and Knaves by Edward Winter.
Review #16: Stories, Training, and Data.
Review #17: Dance of the c-pawns.
Review #18: A New Approach to Internet Chess Study (a review of ChessPublishing.com).
Review #19: 8 Recent Books and CDs
Review #20: The Road to Chess Improvement by Alex Yermolinsky
Review #21: Electronic Instruction and an Excursion into History
Review #22: The Complex Benko/Benoni Complex
Review #23: Looking Back, Part 1
Review #24: Looking Back, Part 2
Review #25: Openings, High Level and Club
Review #26: Endings, endings, endings
Review #27: Coping With the Flood, Part 1
Review #28: MCO 14 (in part, vs. NCO)
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