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CT-153 (937) The First Daily Chess Newspaper on the Net CT-153 (937) 2nd June 2003 Quiz Today Chess News esterday round 3 was played at 1. 'Who is the first ever Irish GM?' the European Championship in Try solving this mystery – the answer YIstanbul. Here are results from is in at the end of this issue. ☺ the 10 top tables: 2. Shamkovich-Kremenietsky Kotronias-Beliavsky 1-0 Moscow 1963 Georgiev-Neverov ½-½ XIIIIIIIIY 9r+-+rsn-mk0 Agrest-Graf ½-½ 9+-+-sN-zpp0 Gashimov-Dautov ½-½ 9p+-+-zp-+0 Ivanisevic-Nisipeanu 0-1 9+p+L+-vL-0 Ivanchuk-Gagunashvili ½-½ 9-+-+-+l+0 9+-+-+-zP-0 Grischuk-Socko 1-0 9PzPP+-+P+0 Pavasovic-Azmaiparashvili 0-1 9+-mKR+-+R0 Malakhov-Delchev ½-½ xiiiiiiiiy Sakaev-Timofeev 1-0 White to play Standings after 3 rounds: 3. Miles-Suba 1-2. Kotronias (2597) and Nisipeanu Thessaloniki 1984 XIIIIIIIIY (2606) – 3 points; 9-vlr+r+k+0 3-23. Dautov (2611), Neverov (2583), 9+p+-+pzpp0 Graf (2630), Sakaev (2664), 9p+n+-+-wq0 Aleksandrov (2650), Tkachiev (2643), 9+-+p+-+-0 9-zP-sNn+l+0 Chuchelov (2592), Atalik (2568), Glek 9zP-+-zPNzP-0 (2551), Arlandi (2456), Grischuk 9RvL-+-zP-zP0 (2701), Bologan (2663), Tregubov 9wQ-+LtR-mK-0 xiiiiiiiiy (2632), Gagunashvili (2580), Kharlov Black to play (2581), Azmaiparashvili (2678), Damljanovic (2587), Kacheishvili 4. Short - Wang Zili (2592), Kiril Georgiev (2647), Beijing 2000 Gashimov (2579) and Agrest (2591) - XIIIIIIIIY 2½ points, etc. 9-+-+n+-mk0 9+-+l+rvlp0 As you can see, only two players still 9-sN-zpp+p+0 9+-+-zPp+-0 have a perfect score, but there are not 9-zp-zP-zP-+0 fewer than 20 GMs and one IM 9+-+-vL-zPP0 chasing them! You can find some 9PtrP+-tRL+0 games from round 3 in our database. 9+-+R+-mK-0 xiiiiiiiiy White to play ICCF Champions League 5. Ernst-Timoshenko Qualification round Tallinn 1989 by Ralph P. Marconi XIIIIIIIIY June 15th will mark 9-+-+-tr-mk0 the end of the first 9+-+-+-+p0 year of play for the ICCF’s team email 9-+-tRp+-+0 9+-+-+-+-0 chess event, Champions League 9-wQ-vlP+-+0 qualifying round. Chess Today has 3 9zP-+r+pzP-0 teams entered into this event. Below 9-+q+-zP-zP0 are the current standings of our teams. 9+N+-+RmK-0 xiiiiiiiiy Each team plays a total of 40 games; Black to play each board 10 games. There are 11 teams per group. This issue is prepared by GM Alex Baburin; technical editor Ralph Marconi Subscription is 19 Euros for 4 months. For further details please refer to http://www.chesstoday.net/ CT-153 (937) Page 1 of 5 Chess Today brings the latest chess news, annotated games and interviews directly to your mailbox, daily! Chess Today Kings shows regularly attracting audiences in Group 9 the millions. The concept behind the Bd 1 Al Fichaud (CAN) – 2½/5 (5), series, as you might know, is based Bd 2 Kerry Redinger (USA) – 2½/9 around the idea that we take (1), Bd 3 Andy Ansel (USA) - 5/10 somebody from one particular (0), Bd 4 Chris Bradley (USA) - background and way of life and place 2½/7 (3) them in a completely alien world. They then have one month to immerse Total: 12½/31 (9) themselves into this new lifestyle and learn the necessary skills involved to Chess Today Bishops then see if they can fake it in front of a Group 17 panel of judges at the end of this Bd 1 Brian Smith (USA) – 3/5 (5), month. You may have witnessed the Bd 2 Carl Hibbard (ENG) - 1/8 (2), success encountered in turning an Bd 3 Carl Heinemann (USA) - ½/8 Oxford Undergrad into a hard-knock (2), Bd 4 John J. Mackie (AUS) - 4/7 bouncer, a burger-flipper from (3) Newcastle into a top London Head Chef and more recently, an insurance Total: 8½/28 (12) salesman into a movie stuntman. I am contacting people involved in Chess Today Knights the chess world in order to put the Group 7 word around. We are currently Bd 1 Jonathan O’Connor (IRL) - 5/7 looking for our Faker, we would like (3),Bd 2 Jack Killane (USA) - 0/6 to find a UK based male chess player, (4),Bd 3 Doug Schwetke (USA) - 25-35 years of age who might be 1½/10 (0),Bd 4 Stephane Fombone interested in taking part in this hugely (FRA) - 1½/10 (0) popular life changing experience. Total: 8/33 (7) Many thanks, Jessica Versluys" For those interested in viewing the We are happy to assist RDF Media, ultimate structure of the ICCF’s but would not accept any Champions League go the following responsibility – we do not know what webpage: you might need to fake! ☺ http://www.tables.iccf.com/email/ChL FAKING IT eague/structur1.htm CHANNEL 4's BAFTA AWARD Chess Today received a pretty curious WINNING SERIES IS LOOKING FOR letter, which might be interesting for MALE CHESS PLAYER (ALL LEVELS) our UK readers: Are you a UK-based 25-35 year old "Dear Chess Today, male chess player? Would you like to be taken into a new and exciting I am writing from RDF Media, world for just one month? If interested London, England. We are an or would like more information, independent television production please call Jessica on: 020 7751 7383 company responsible for programmes OR e-mail such as Faking it, Perfect Match, Wife [email protected] (sorry, Swap, Shipwrecked, Eden and many only UK applicants to apply) more exciting programmes. I am currently working on Faking It, which is a hugely successful format, having ¤¤¤ won various awards, including a BAFTA, and is one of Channel 4's flagship This issue is prepared by GM Alex Baburin; technical editor Ralph Marconi Subscription is 19 Euros for 4 months. For further details please refer to http://www.chesstoday.net/ CT-153 (937) Page 5 of 5 Chess Today brings the latest chess news, annotated games and interviews directly to your mailbox, daily! Cotswold Congress Web Watch by Graham Brown Today we continue observing various chess websites. The 36th Cotswold Congress was One of my favourite site is Chess played on 24th to 26th May 2003 and I Café, which always has interesting helped with the organising, mostly to chess stuff. Today I found there that avoid damaging my grading in an 1st of June was a birthday for not few open tournament that was a little too than four Grandmasters – Leonid strong for me! Last year I played John Shamkovich (1923), Mihai Suba Pigott in the first round and did as well (1947), Nigel Short (1965) and Georgy as his opponents this year!☺ Timoshenko (1966). This gave me an 1 J. Pigott (220) 5½/6 idea to show tactical positions from 2= C. Crouch (218) 4½/6 their games in our today quiz. 2= S. Berry (208) 4½/6 GM Timoshenko (Ukraine) should 2= N. Moyse (194) 4½/6 not be confused with former second of Kasparov GM Timoschenko, who now Although we had no expert to do it, resides in Slovakia. By the way, I think we decided to try to create a it was Nigel Short who gave me that commentary room anyway! We were 'Who is the first Irish GM?' puzzle. not as strong as many of the players Anyway, a new feature on the Chess we were commentating on but Café website is a column by Mig everything was taken in a good- (Michael Greengard), who talks on natured way and players came in and how best use Chess Base and Fritz. helped out when they had finished One of most entertaining chess their games. Even when we used Fritz writers on the Internet is undoubtedly to find mistakes, the victims took it in Tim Krabbe. He keeps Open Chess good spirits! Diary on his Chess Curiosities website. There was an interesting finish to the The latest entry (of May 30) is called tournament involving IM Sherwin who 'Chess and Go' – well-worth a visit! once played a certain Bobby Fischer On the Chess Base website you can and I quote from the tournament read more about Tim himself, who report: recently turned 60. "The final burst of excitement in the Open section was provided by Chess FM website is certainly the most Sherwin and Beaumont. Beaumont's interesting of the chess sites which time trouble prevented him from fully appeared recently. One of its regular exploiting a better position and features is Chess & Books talk show eventually resulted in him swapping with Fred Wilson, who also has his off into an endgame with Pawn own website. Fred's next guest on against Bishop. When Beaumont Tuesday June 3rd. will be Dr. Frank finally ran out of time, Sherwin looked Brady, who was the first editor of for a win in jest on the grounds that he Chess Life magazine, and the creator, could set up a mating net, if the pawn editor and publisher of the highly- was promoted to a Bishop - which the regarded and much sought-after players did not find but the brief-lived ChessWorld magazine. He commentary team did over the board is also, famously, the author of "Profile without Fritz!! In the end a draw was of a Prodigy", a biography of Bobby rightfully agreed with good humour all Fischer. Tune-in to the live broadcast round." Tuesday at 9:00pm ET and replays on Also check out Moyes-Curnow at Tue. at 11:00pm ET and Wed.
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