Garry Kasparov
Third consecutive win in Wijk aan Zee.
Mikhail Gurevich
secured promotion with superior ease.
Dmitry Yakovenko
Winner in Saint Vicent.
1...b5! - The SOS relpy.
Victor Kortchnoi:
A celebration in between tournaments.
| ContentKASPAROV AAN ZEE III
The Corus 2001 Chess Tournament saw the eagerly awaited clash between Garry Kasparov, the most successful tournament player of all time, and the two world champions we have today, Vladimir Kramnik and Vishy Anand. Certainly, even with all the best players present this was just a tournament and not a world championship. Yet, Kasparov's third consecutive win in Wijk aan Zee does serve as a reminder of the current state of affairs in the chess world. As the winner put it himself: 'We now have two players claiming the title. One has tradition on his side, the other organisation. At the same time neither of them succeeded in beating me in any tournament in the last whatever years.' An extensive report with loads of fascinating analysis. MIKHAIL GUREVICH, WHO ELSE?
In the Corus B tournament most attention focused on the d‚but of 13-year-old Teymur Radjabov and 14-year-old Pentyala Harikrishna. The aspiring youngsters duly notched up their second GM norms, but they too had to bow to the vast experience of Mikhail Gurevich, who secured promotion to next year's top section with superior ease. CHESS PILGRIMS IN SAINT VINCENT
In the mid-90s Kasparov's former trainer Alexander Nikitin announced that he had begun working with a player whom he thought might have world championship potential. For years we wondered how strong this Dmitry Yakovenko really was. In Saint Vincent the 17-year-old student at Moscow University secured his second GM norm, winning the tournament on tiebreak in the process. Ian Rogers reports. SOS: AN INTERESTING TRY AGAINST 1.Nf3
Sick and tired of opponents who open the game by cautiously bringing out their king's knight? Jeroen Bosch has a recipe you may want to try. OH CALCUTTA!
Joe Gallagher wrote history as the winner of the first really modern chess tournament, the Goodricke Open in Calcutta, but he isn't so sure if a ban on thinking heralds a radiant future. SADLER ON BOOKS PAUL KERES
Jan Timman describes the rich legacy of the Estonian legend, who might have been world champion had he lived in different times. KORTCHNOI AT 70
It is not our habit to pay tribute to chess players who reach a particular age, but yes, this is an exception. A REAL HERO
Germany honoured the memory of Emanuel Lasker with a three-day conference and a book on his contributions to many different intellectual fields. For Hans Ree, Lasker has been a hero from the time of his youth. CHESS NOTES
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