LAST-ROUND CLEAN SWEEP BRINGS RUSSIANS GOLD The fourth World Team Championship in Lucerne saw an excruciatingly tight finish that delighted the successful Russians and infuriated the Americans. Peter Svidler tells the winners' tale, Alex Yermolinsky vents the Americans' indignation, and Jonathan Speelman explains why this time the English had to content themselves with individual medals only.
ANAND AND IVANCHUK TOP BELGRADE The historical winds of change have turned the Yugoslav chess paradise into a desert. However, in this chess desert, there is an oasis, writes Zoran Ilic. Its name is Investbanka and a lot of great chess was played in its sixth edition.
INTRODUCING: THE YOUNGEST GM EVER! You still think Etienne Bacrot is the youngest grandmaster on the globe? Not anymore. Ruslan Ponomaryov stopped the clocks at fourteen years and seventeen days.
LOCAL FAVOURITE WINS NORDIC GRAND PRIX FINAL Jonathan Tisdall finishes his Nordic odyssey in Reykjavik, where Johann Hjartarson dominated the Grand Prix Final.
HANS REE ON J.H. DONNER'S THE KING What is the Golden Age of Chess? Hans Ree says it's an era which is portrayed as beautifully as in The King.
