Archive for July, 2005
Do players still fight for honor, and not prize money?
This still happens in a country like the Philippines, whose national championship for men and women, are being held without prize money.
Philippine chess federation officials made this radical decision to solve game-fixing, which unofficial sources claimed to have worsened in the last few years.
Federation president Go Teng Kok says the main reason is that the [...]
Liviu Dieter Nisipeanu stands out at the European tournament circuit
He is tall, wears his hair in a pony tail, and plays a distinctive brand of chess where he enters risky lines and wrings out victory or draw.
He won the European championship in Warsaw last weekend, beating Alexander Beliavsky in the last round, to score 10 points out 13 rounds. Teimour Radjabov came in second [...]
Supercomputer slays U.K.’s top chess player
U.K. chess grandmaster Michael Adams has been soundly beaten in his titanic struggle against Hydra, a supercomputer.
Adams, the U.K.’s top chess player, lost five out of six games, and only managed a single draw at London’s Wembley Centre.
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