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Fritz 12 (Chess) 2009 | Puzzle games | PC | Excalibur | En | 3.8 GB About: If you need to prepare for a serious meeting at the chessboard, Fritz 12 can help you train with a real master! Fritz provides over 12 hours video lessons for each level of the game, where you will see a detailed analysis of game masters, discussions about the types of traps or the stunning debut of the winning combinations....
Joe Weisenthal, Deputy Editor, The Business Insider Your Questions (8 min): How long can the Fed keep inflating the current bubble? They look to me quite breathless, recently. - Sir Lorenz Do you think the Republicans will win or lose net seats in Congress in the mid-term elections? Do you think Obama will win re-election? - Gordon Do you think the stock market will have an up or down year in 2010?...
CHECK MAGNUS November 16, 2009 The chess world has a new No.1 player, Magnus Carlsen of Norway, and he is only 18 years old - the youngest No.1 ever. On Saturday, Carlsen beat No.11 Peter Leko of Hungary in the final round of a tournament in Moscow. Although Carlsen only tied for second in the tournament, it was enough for him to edge out Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria for the top world ranking. Topalov,...
A few years ago I got a great deal for a set of wireless mouse and keyboard (less than $40 CAD in total). And it’s been serving me great because cables annoy me (there is already too many of them around my desk). The only times the wireless mouse bothered me was when replacing batteries, and when playing blitz games: the control over the cursor is just not as tight as with a regular mouse. Recently...
Ten of the world elite are competing at Moscow's Tal Memorial, which ends today and is one of the strongest tournaments in chess history. But the winner in the event's first half was a flu virus which affected several grandmasters and encouraged a minimalist, cautious approach. Ukraine's Vasily Ivanchuk wore a face mask, and a high 80 per cent of the first five round games were drawn. The sickest...
2009 marks the 13th anniversary for a slew of seminal tech industry events, so here on Friday the 13th, is a brief look back at developments both lucky and unlucky. (For our annual Geekiest 25th Anniversaries, click here ) 1. Motorola introduces the StarTAC Wearable Cellular Telephone , the smallest and lightest mobile phone at the time at 3.1 ounces. 2. IBM's Deep Blue chess computer beats world...
For immediate release November 7th 2009 London Chess Classic The London Chess Classic is delighted to announce that Viktor Korchnoi, one of the all time greats of world chess has agreed to be the tournament’s Guest of Honour. Korchnoi still plays high level chess at the age of 78 and recently played on board one for Switzerland at the European Team Championship. Korchnoi fought two world title...
Armenia and Azerbaijan vie for supremacy at Russia's expense Leonard Barden The Guardian, Saturday 7 November 2009 More than 150 nations are affiliated to the global chess body Fide, yet team supremacy on the board is currently being fought out by two small Caucasian republics. In the process the pair have humilated their big neighbour Russia, for long the undisputed No1. When Armenia won the 2006...
Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam, interviewing Garry Kasparov in the latest New In Chess : At a certain point I saw you almost visibly enjoying this. Dirk, yesterday
Studying Sharansky By Larry Gordon Published on Thursday, November 05, 2009 He blazed a trail that simply made things possible. He was just one man almost crushed by seemingly insurmountable odds. But he pushed back stubbornly and perhaps just a little harder than others, and that served as a catalyst for what would become a revolution. I’ve followed the fashion in which Natan Sharansky has...
On October 13th, for the third time in a row Garry Kasparov gave a simul in Antwerp, Belgium against a number of CEO’s, politicians and children. Nigel Short was there as well to give live commentary, and everything was set in a studio and filmed with different cameras by a professional TV crew. The result: [...]
Anand takes early lead against Karpov PTI 1 November 2009, 07:39pm IST BASTIA (France): World Champion Viswanathan Anand took an early lead by winning the first game of the rapid match against former world champion Anatoly Karpov of Russia. Anand played it safe and got an easy draw with black pieces in the second game to lead the four-game match 1.5-0.5. The remaining two games of the match will be...
Moscow - Special units of Russian police arrested a number of protesters including writer Eduard Limonov at an unauthorized demonstration by government opponents on Saturday, according to a report on the website of opposition leader Garry Kasparov. A...
Like a comic book superhero, mild-mannered Boris Gulko turns into The Incredible Gulko at the chessboard. Not only does the grandmaster from Fair Lawn NJ boast a lifetime plus score against Garry Kasparov, Gulko has also posted a combined record of 8-0-0 in the United States Chess League. His latest victim was FM Tommy Bartell whose Philadelphia Inventors were outsmarted by the New Jersey Knockouts...
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