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Written by John Knightly
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Thursday, 19 October 2006 |
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The children have been invited by the USCF to compete in the 2006 youth world chess championships and will play a 11 round tournament. The children receive financial help in fling to the tournament and once child from each category will play against the official USCF representative. The games begin on Wednesday 25th October in Batumi on the shores of the black sea. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 23 October 2006 )
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Written by John Knightly
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Thursday, 19 October 2006 |
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The BBC (Bacolod Christian Center School) chess players have brought medals in various categories of the 2006 competitions organized by the Negros Occidental Private Schools Sports Cultural & Educational Association (Nopsscea), among others is swimming, taekwondo, table tennis, lawn tennis and chess. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 23 October 2006 )
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Written by John Knightly
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Wednesday, 20 September 2006 |
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So what to do in order to make chess a bit more dangerous and exciting? Horst Unger's answer is to have people play not only against each other but also against the incoming tide. How to do that? Read more below. |
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Written by John Knightly
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Tuesday, 19 September 2006 |
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2003 was hailed as the starting point of a new era in chess competition. Never before has an official chess body endorsed a computer program.
In January 2003 this happened for the first time: The world's then best player, Gary Kasparov, competed against the world best chess software: Deep Junior".
Although Kasparov played against "Deep Blue" already in 1997 and Victor Kramnik played against "Deep Fritz" in Oct 2002, the January 2003 competition was the first endorsed by the world chess federation. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 20 September 2006 )
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Written by John Knightly
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Tuesday, 19 September 2006 |
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Haridrishna, India's number two chess player and top seed in this tournament, won the György Marx Memorial a full point ahead of Zahar Efimenko, the Ukrainian runner up. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 20 September 2006 )
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