After the unecpected death of Mikhail Zinar, I wrote a memorial article in two parts about him. You can find it on ChessBase:
Most information in the articles is from a 2008 article by Sergey N. Tkachenko:
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Sunday, April 4, 2021
Thursday, March 26, 2020
FIDE stops Candidates 2020 (uncommented statement by President Dvorkovich)
Today, the government of the Russian Federation announced that
starting March 27, 2020, Russia interrupts air traffic with other
countries without indicating any time frames.
FIDE can not continue the tournament without guarantees for the players' and officials' safe and timely return home. In this situation and on the basis of clause 1.5. Rules of Candidates Tournament, the FIDE President decided to stop the tournament. It will be continued later, with the exact dates to be announced as soon, as the global situation related to the COVID-19 pandemic will allow. As it was stipulated by the special rules agreed with the players before the start of the event, the results of the 7 rounds played remain valid, and the tournament will be resumed in the same composition starting with the games of the 8th round. FIDE is grateful to the players, officials, volunteers and the entire team of organizers, including the Chess Federation of Russia and the main partner of the tournament - SIMA-Land.
Sincerely,
Arkady Dvorkovich,
FIDE President
(source: ChessBase)
FIDE can not continue the tournament without guarantees for the players' and officials' safe and timely return home. In this situation and on the basis of clause 1.5. Rules of Candidates Tournament, the FIDE President decided to stop the tournament. It will be continued later, with the exact dates to be announced as soon, as the global situation related to the COVID-19 pandemic will allow. As it was stipulated by the special rules agreed with the players before the start of the event, the results of the 7 rounds played remain valid, and the tournament will be resumed in the same composition starting with the games of the 8th round. FIDE is grateful to the players, officials, volunteers and the entire team of organizers, including the Chess Federation of Russia and the main partner of the tournament - SIMA-Land.
Sincerely,
Arkady Dvorkovich,
FIDE President
(source: ChessBase)
Tuesday, December 25, 2018
ChessBase Christmas Study 2018
My friend Steffen Slumstrup Nielsen has accompanied one of his 2017 studies with a nice Christmas story to make the ChessBase Christmas Study for this year.
Now I am not entirely neutral, as I mediated the contact, but personally I recommend reading it here:
https://en.chessbase.com/post/a-christmas-study
The readers named Eva Nemcova should notice the dedication is to a woman of that name in Steffen's country Denmark. So it's not the Czech basketball star.
Now I am not entirely neutral, as I mediated the contact, but personally I recommend reading it here:
https://en.chessbase.com/post/a-christmas-study
The readers named Eva Nemcova should notice the dedication is to a woman of that name in Steffen's country Denmark. So it's not the Czech basketball star.
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
About project "Study of the Month"
I have sent my annual report to the WFCC president and the president of the Subcommittee for Endgame Studies in the WFCC yesterday. I believe the project "Study of the Month", which is hosted by ChessBase, is a great success, and although not many people comment on it, I have the unofficial comments per e-mail that tell me that the chess composers are reading it, they enjoy it, and they are unfortunately too polite to tell what should be changed when it should.
For this year, i.e. 2018, we have undertaken the historical examination.We have shown several early composers, and will continue to do so. For December a special christmas issue is already in the works, but details can't be given yet.
The articles about the following main topics were published in 2018 so far:
January: Alexey Troitzky
February: Platov brothers
March: Kubbel brothers
April: Nikolay Grigoriev (extensive)
May: Chess Studies; or: Endings of Games
The following topic is scheduled for June, to be published on June 30.
Henri Rinck
So far only very famous composers have been covered, but those are incidentally the most important figures. I am worried about the new EU copyright directive, as it might prevent the re-use of still copyrighted endgame studies for educational and scientific purposes without permission of untracable heirs. History might end with the studies of people who died in 1947 then. This would be a horrible cultural holocaust. (Link in German, as there is no English article fitting.)
For this year, i.e. 2018, we have undertaken the historical examination.We have shown several early composers, and will continue to do so. For December a special christmas issue is already in the works, but details can't be given yet.
The articles about the following main topics were published in 2018 so far:
January: Alexey Troitzky
February: Platov brothers
March: Kubbel brothers
April: Nikolay Grigoriev (extensive)
May: Chess Studies; or: Endings of Games
The following topic is scheduled for June, to be published on June 30.
Henri Rinck
So far only very famous composers have been covered, but those are incidentally the most important figures. I am worried about the new EU copyright directive, as it might prevent the re-use of still copyrighted endgame studies for educational and scientific purposes without permission of untracable heirs. History might end with the studies of people who died in 1947 then. This would be a horrible cultural holocaust. (Link in German, as there is no English article fitting.)
Friday, March 9, 2018
Gisbert Jacoby (3.v.1943 - 1.iii.2018)
The former CEO of ChessBase, chess trainer from Hamburg, Gisbert Jacoby has died eight days ago. There is an obituary on ChessBase by André Schulz about him with a few photos.
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Jan Timman 65 JT - award
Friday, January 19, 2018
17 January 2008: The lone king wanders off...
Ten years ago, on 17 January 2008, Bobby Fischer has died.
I remember going into the chess club at Friday evening that week, and being told by my fellow player Uli G. whilst going into the basement room in the hotel in my home city that Bobby Fischer has died. I'm not sure if I cried that night, or if it was later. I went on to buy the New In Chess that dealt with Bobby Fischer afterwards. "The lone king has wandered off...", the title story of van Geuzendam proclaimed, detailing Fischer's life - and death - in Iceland.
Two new ChessBase articles are interesting to read now, ten years later.
ChessBase has found an interesting coincidence: 17 January 1951 was the first public appearance of a young jewish American chess prodigy. His name? Robert James Fischer. "Bobby".
https://en.chessbase.com/post/17-january-1951-bobby-fischers-first-simul
Another article on ChessBase deals with the last days of Iceland's most famous grandmaster...
https://en.chessbase.com/post/bobby-fischer-s-final-days
I remember going into the chess club at Friday evening that week, and being told by my fellow player Uli G. whilst going into the basement room in the hotel in my home city that Bobby Fischer has died. I'm not sure if I cried that night, or if it was later. I went on to buy the New In Chess that dealt with Bobby Fischer afterwards. "The lone king has wandered off...", the title story of van Geuzendam proclaimed, detailing Fischer's life - and death - in Iceland.
Two new ChessBase articles are interesting to read now, ten years later.
ChessBase has found an interesting coincidence: 17 January 1951 was the first public appearance of a young jewish American chess prodigy. His name? Robert James Fischer. "Bobby".
https://en.chessbase.com/post/17-january-1951-bobby-fischers-first-simul
Another article on ChessBase deals with the last days of Iceland's most famous grandmaster...
https://en.chessbase.com/post/bobby-fischer-s-final-days
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
ChessBase Shop Sale today, 25 percent off on everything, Fritz 16 released
As a regular ChessBase writer, I am semi-inclined to inform about the ChessBase sale today. Everything is 25 percent off at the shop until 9 AM tomorrow CEST.
Fritz 16, newly released - I personally use Deep Fritz 11 as the GUI of Fritz 13 was too horrible and I didn't try any new ones since - is 59.93€ instead of 79.90€, or 52.43€ instead of 69.90€ but contains the multiprocessor engine already.
Other products also can be found in the article or the shop itself.
Fritz 16, newly released - I personally use Deep Fritz 11 as the GUI of Fritz 13 was too horrible and I didn't try any new ones since - is 59.93€ instead of 79.90€, or 52.43€ instead of 69.90€ but contains the multiprocessor engine already.
Other products also can be found in the article or the shop itself.
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