ContentBORIS GELFAND WINS VIENNA MILLENIUM FESTIVAL
The Millenium Chess Festival, part of the festivities in honour of one thousand years of Austria, filled the magnificent Vienna Town Hall with eight hundred chess players. Boris Gelfand describes how the category 18 main tournament ended in a three-way tie. Gelfand was declared winner on tie-break, ahead of Anatoly Karpov and Veselin Topalov. Fortunately all three of them contributed to the analysis section! VESELIN TOPALOV NOTHES UP NOVGOROD AS WELL
With another six-player category 19 event the Novgorod tournament well established its name in the top chess circuit. Veselin Topalov collected another great victory in what most certainly is his Magical Year. Report by Christophe Bouton. Game notes by Topalov, Ivanchuk, Gelfand, Kramnik and Judit Polgar! EXPERIENCE AND YOUTH TRIUMPH IN BIEL
Vladimir Tukmakov celebrates a solid fixture on the chess calendar in these difficult times when many splendid undertakings fade away after hardly managing to get under way. The 29th Biel Chess Festival was won by Anatoly Karpov (experience) and Vadim Milov (youth). Karpov's analysis of his flashy win over Portisch is quite an experience. RUDOLF SPIELMANN, AN AUSTRIAN TRAGEDY
Michael Ehn paints a gripping picture of the troubled final years of the great Austrian master. A WINNER'S TALE FROM BUENOS AIRES
A happy Sergey Tiviakov walked the streets of Buenos Aires before he set off to win the seventh Miguel Najdorf tournament. In his exclusive report the winner tells it all. MORE CRITICAL MOMENTS FROM ELISTA
Jan Timman is still fascinated by a number of critical positions from the FIDE world championship match between Karpov and Kamsky. THE I-FILES
Fred Waitzkin, the acclaimed chess writer, speaks about his PLUS: Chess Players Write, The Groningen Staunton Tournament Fifty Years On, The Asian Cities Team Championships in Dubai, Haifa, The World Open in Philadelphia, and a Special Report by Jonathan Tisdall from Copenhagen. | 
