KASPAROV SELF-DESTRUCTS IN DEEP BLUE REMATCH Patrick Wolff attended the Kasparov vs. Deep Blue spectacle in New York and kept a diary. Did he witness a new landmark in computer chess or did he see Kasparov succumb to the building tension and beat himself?
ANAND WINS DOS HERMANAS Kevin Spraggett visited Dos Hermanas to study the nature of the so-called `super-tournaments'. The Canadian grandmaster raises a few criticisms in an illuminating report that includes game notes by winner Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, Anatoly Karpov and Boris Gelfand.
ETIENNE BACROT YOUNGEST GM The French prodigy analyzes two key games from the Enghien tournament where at fourteen years and two months he became the youngest grandmaster in history.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK When does an 8 out of 9 score at the New York Open feel like a dream? When you keep scoring in a field of 57 grandmasters? Or when you get robbed of 7700 dollars of prize-money on your return home? A combined report by surprise winners Viktor Bologan and Michal Krasenkow.
TALKING ABOUT THE WEATHER Jonathan Tisdall adds two more chapters to his harrowing tale of the Nordic Grand Prix. Braving a wide variety of climatological hardships he travelled to Stockholm, where he too fell victim to a seemingly unavoidable flu epidemic, and to the Faroe Islands, where he experienced the fabled winds.
MASTER SECTION SPECIAL: GARRY KASPAROV! In a highly instructive analysis Garry Kasparov reveals the strategy that helped him to win his crucial game against Alexey Shirov in the penultimate round of the Linares tournament.
