THREE RUSSIANS TAKE TILBURG Three Russians came to play in the second Fontys Tilburg Chess Tournament and all three of them claimed first prize! Admitted ly, a tight race between Garry Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik had been on the cards, but they, too, looked up in slight baf flement when Peter Svidler joined in.
TWO LETTERS FROM BEIJING Former women's world champion Xie Jun explains why Suat Atalik should not have taken the desserts from the table of the gods during his visit to Beijing. Sergey Tiviakov also broadened his culinary horizon, as he vivdly describes in his report from the Chinese capital.
INTERVIEW: ALEXANDER ONISCHUK `That moment when Kasparov walked up to the board meant more to me than the moment I got my grandmaster title', says Alexander Onischuk, the Ukraine's coming man.
THE US CHAMPIONSHIP ACCORDING TO BENJAMIN Joel Benjamin propagated a different format for the US Championship and duly became the new champion.
THE FASCINATION OF MIKHAIL TAL A new edition of The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal in cited Roberto Cifuentes and Maarten de Zeeuw to write a eulogy on the attacking genius.
