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CT-216(1000) 4 th August 2003

Welcome to

CT-1000!

GM Alex Baburin ...

oday is a very

special day for

the whole Chess

Today team: it was

hard to foresee that

one day we would

publish our 1000th

issue! I would also like

to congratulate and

thank our readers -

your financial support

and moral encouragement made this

day possible!

Chess News

Victor Bologan is having the

tournament of his life in Dortmund -

in round 4 he beat Peter Leko with

Black, fortifying his lead. Leko pressed

most of the game, but erred towards

the end. In the wild game between

two juniors the older one prevailed:

Today we will talk about the history of

Chess Today, our future plans and

people working in the paper. But even

today we won't betray our format -

chess comes first! ☺

Naiditsch - Radjabov 1-0

Anand - Kramnik ôÂô

Leko - Bologan 0-1

Chess Quiz

You can see all the games in our

database.

Leko (2739) - Bologan (2650)

Dortmund (4), 03.08.2003

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Black to play (see page 2)

Leko (2739)

Bologan (2650)

Dortmund (4), 03.08.2003

Notes by GM Alexander Baburin

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Ëc3 dxe4 4.Ëxe4

Ëd7 5.¯c4 Ëgf6 6.Ëg5 e6 7.¢e2

Ëb6 8.¯d3 h6 9.Ë5f3 c5 10.¯e3

¢c7 11.Ëe5 a6 12.Ëgf3 cxd4

13.¯xd4 Ëbd5 14.0Â0 ¯c5

15.¯b5+ ¡f8 16.¯xc5+ ¢xc5

17.¯c4 ¡e7 18.¯xd5 Ëxd5 19.c4

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Ëf6 20.èfd1 ¯d7 21.b4 ¢c7

22.Ëd4 èhd8 23.èd3 ¡f8 24.èad1

¯e8 25.h3 Ëd7 (D)

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White stays better and can keep the

initiative with the simple 26.Ëxd7+!?

¯xd7 27.c5. Instead Leko sacrificed a

pawn, trying to exploit the pin on the

d-file. He got a long-term initiative,

but somehow let it fizzle out later:

26.Ëg4 ¢xc4 27.¢d2 èac8

28.Ëb3 ¢c7 29.èc1

Reducing material seems to be the

wrong idea; here worth considering

was 29.èd6!?, planning Ëg4-e5 and

Ëb3-c5.

29...¢b8 30.èxc8 ¢xc8 31.b5 ¢c4

32.bxa6 bxa6 33.èd6 ¢b5 34.Ëd4

¢b1+ 35.¡h2 èc8 36.Ëb3 Ëc5

37.Ëxc5 èxc5 38.èxa6 ¢b8+

39.¡g1?

Better was 39.f4.

39...èb5 40.Ëe3 èb1+ 41.Ëd1

¢e5 42.èa3 (D)

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42...¢g5! 43.èe3 ¯a4 44.¡h2

¢f4+ 45.g3 èxd1 46.¢d8+ èxd8

0Â1

(2470) the Russian Grandmaster is

leading 2ô-1ô.

Sunday was a day off in both Montreal

and Malmo .

Letters from Our Colleagues

In the past few days Chess

Today has received

numerous letters from

other chess publications,

congratulating us on our

coming anniversary. On behalf

of the CT team I would like to thank

all our chess friends around the world

for their support!

"Congratulations on your 1000th issue.

The only way to reach such

a milestone is one at a time and I

appreciate just how hard it is to

keep going week after week, month

after month, year after year

and try and keep the standards the

same. Chess coverage has reached its

maturity on the Internet and there is a

huge appetite for news about the great

game and Chess Today offers a unique

service to enthusiasts throughout the

World. Good luck for the next 1000!

Mark Crowther, founder and editor of

TWIC."

"One thousand issues is a great

accomplishment! Chess Today has

been a great addition to the chess

community, filling its niche admirably.

Congratulations to the people at Chess

Today, particularly Alex Baburin, for

keeping this excellent publication

running!

Peter Kurzdorfer, Editor, Chess Life

magazine"

Standings after 4 round:

1. Bologan (2650) - 3ô points;

2. Kramnik (2785) - 2ô points;

3. Naiditsch (2674) - 2 points;

4-5. Leko (2739) and Radjabov (2648)

- 1ô points;

6. Anand (2774) - 1 point.

"Congratulations to Alex Baburin and

the entire staff of Chess Today on your

1,000th issue. I wish Chess Today

continued success bringing chess

news and articles to the chess world

every day.

Hanon W. Russell, publisher

ChessCafe.com"

In the match Vladimir Belikov (2499)

vs. 14-year old David Baramidze

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"Dear Alexander and the CT team,

When I started projecting my first

magazine IdeaScacchi , you've been a

source of inspiration to me. I liked the

way CT looked, and I liked the idea of

providing a magazine that could be

read, in most of the cases, even

without a chessboard. Apart from my

point of view as editor, I can tell you

that I consider CT a precious training

tool. Every morning I have the chance

to test my tactical skills with your quiz

section, and to learn GM ideas and

plans reading through your annotated

games. I really think that every player

can improve his play by reading

CT, and it takes a very small effort!!

(ChessToday... all my troubles seem so

far away... ;-) )

chess newspaper came to me in the

summer of 2000. I was on a plane to

Copenhagen. When I am on a plane,

ideas just come to my mind, I can't

help it. It could be the altitude, it

could be the idleness, but the most

likely cause is free alcohol! ☺

Anyway, that day I thought that there

was so much material in chess, that I

could easily write a chess column

every day. But I did not see a

newspaper, which would possibly

publish my chess stuff on a daily basis,

so I decided to start my own paper!

Pretty quickly I figured out the main

ideas: the paper won't be free, it

would be daily and not too long.

Ideally it would inform, educate and

entertain. As for the format, I settled

on PDF, which allows people to see

diagrams and figurines even if they

don't have chess fonts on their

computers. Most people use some

chess software, so PGN and CBV were

quickly added.

Keep up with the great work, and

congratulations for this first milestone!

Best regards,

Davide Cortese, Italy"

Dear Alexander,

Happy birthday toyour brainchild

Chess Today, which is enrichment for

the chess world. I wish you and your

staff all the best and am looking

forward to see another thousands of

issues!

With kind regards,

IM Otto Borik, Editor-in-chief of

Schach Magazin 64"

There was a lot of free and good chess

stuff on the Net, so Chess Today had

to offer something unique. It could not

be just chess news Â TWIC was perfect

at doing that! But not many sites gave

current annotated games, so that had

to be our selling point. It seems that

this format suits most people still, but I

am open to new ideas.

"In the first days of August, the daily

news-letter of GM Baburin reaches

the first 1000 issues. More or less 3

years. Our best wishes, with the hope

that the news and the games from Italy

- for the moment very few - will

increase! Best regards and best wishes!

Adolivio Capece, editor of

L'Italia Scacchistica"

The editorial team grew with the

paper: Jimmy Adams (editor of Chess

Monthly) recommended Graham

Brown as an editor. Graham did the

first issue and has done most of the

editing since, but I was also fortunate

to link with Ralph Marconi, our second

editor. Tim Harding also helped with

editing in the early days. Both editors,

as well as all our journalists and I,

learnt a lot as we went along.

Chess Today: Past & Future

There are not many readers who saw

all 1000 issues of Chess Today -

people come and go - this is only

natural. So, I hope that a short essay

on the history of Chess Today will be

of interest.

As for journalists, I started writing CT

during the Istanbul Chess Olympiad,

where I was playing. That was a really

crazy idea - I did not have much spare

time, Net connection in Istanbul was

slow, etc. But once I managed that, I

knew I could produce Chess Today!

The idea to start a daily Net-based

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However, I needed help, as writing for

it every day would be the shortest way

to a mental asylum. So, I asked my

friend IM Vladimir Barsky to join me.

Then GM Ruslan Scherbakov, whom I

knew from junior tournaments, joined

us. Later GM Mikhail Golubev and IM

Maxim Notkin joined the team. Max

later brought in IM Nikolai Vlassov.

Prior to that GM Kasrten Mller

(Germany) and IM John Donaldson

started sending their contributions.

Also my former student Sam Collins

(Ireland) began reviewing books in

CT. Later Andy Ansel and Don Aldrich

(both from USA) joined our list of

reviewers. Recently I got a few

reviews from other people too.

will be a piece of cake to start a daily

paper on golf or tennis! ☺

As for our plans, we hope to finish a

few things in the near future. First, we

will have more standards in our issues

- I guess that some readers already

saw changes in the past 2 months. We

will also do more planning in advance

when it comes to content. Mikhail

Golubev will soon become our

Content Editor, so he will overlook

our editorial portfolio, etc. Another

idea is to finally produce CT CDs.

There are two of them in the works -

years 2000-2001 and 2002. Each CD

will have all PDF files from that

period, one large database with

annotated games and tactical quizzes

(Chess Base format and PGN), Index,

Acrobat Reader and Chess Base Light

programs. Each CD will retail for

about $20, but will be offered to the

existing paying subscribers with a

significant (perhaps 50%) discount.

Now Chess Today has a very strong

panel of journalists. It is likely that we

will have more guest writers soon Â

the paper is growing and I want to

diversify the content. What we really

need is more readers! ☺ When CT first

started, its readership quickly rose to

400, then members began to climb

more steadily. I also began offering CT

subs as prizes at ICC and Fritz server.

GMs can receive our paper for free

and currently we have about 40 such

readers. Among them are such top

players as Shirov, Gelfand, Svidler,

Lautier, van Wely and Radjabov.

Moving away from Yahoo is our other

priority. This is not that easy as many

web hosts do not allow the use of

mailing software. But we have done

some research and testing, so soon we

might be able to depart from Yahoo,

which has been quite unreliable.

Finally, I am still thinking about the

best format for Chess Today. I reckon

that there is a problem (mostly

psychological, but no less important

because of that!) with daily issues. I'd

like to explain this in more detail.

Imagine me, an ordinary customer,

who buys a CT subscription. It is not

too expensive and generally is a very

good value for money. It comes to me

every day, but I don't read it every

day. Not a big deal - CT is still rather

inexpensive. But after a while I get the

impression that I am not getting full

value - CT is not for me! And I

terminate my subscription...

At the moment we have about 650

readers and the figure seems to have

been frozen for quite some time. I

even begin to suspect that there are

only about 500 people on the whole

Internet willing to pay for chess and

that I found them all! ☺ But the

experience of ICC tells otherwise, so I

remain hopeful. The next year will be

critical for the future of our paper - if

the readership does not grow, I will

have to think carefully about the

vitality of the whole idea. But with

more people coming to the Net, things

should get better. And services

charging for their stuff on the Net are

becoming more accepted by the

public too. The general chess public is

notorious for not willing to pay for

their hobby, but when CT succeeds, it

I bet that such thinking is quite

common, particularly among those

who do not sign up for CT in the first

place because they cannot read it

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every day! Of course, when I asked CT

readers if they would prefer to receive

CT twice a week, almost all voted for

daily delivery! But I asked the

audience, which already voted for that

option. So, my idea is to offer a

choice: we will produce daily CT (as

before) and also special issues twice a

week, for those who will prefer this

option. Those issues will have all

annotated games and quizzes in our

database, some annotated games and

tactical positions in PDF, all book

reviews in PDF and a digest of chess

news. I hope that offering this option

will make CT more attractive to a

wider chess audience! If you have a

comment or suggestion regarding this

idea, please send me a note .

chess club!) and also the Stroud Chess

Club website . I run a UK specific

webzine and directory called

www.easytorecall.com and am a self-

employed web-designer.

When I edited CT-1 my BCF grade

was 139. Now I am 169 (about 1950

Elo, I guess). I really enjoy editing CT

and I'm sure my jump in grade is

down to having to regularly prepare

an annotated game from our experts

for sending out to the CT group. When

I click that send button I often think

about all the homes CT is being read

in. I can just imagine people reading it

over their breakfast (or coffee break,

depending on time zone!) in say,

Japan or America or Russia and all the

many other places where we have

subscribers. The thing I've most

enjoyed about the evolution of CT-1

to CT-1000 is seeing more and more

letters - with games, encouragement,

comments, errors exposed, etc, from

more and more of those breakfast

tables! Here's to the next 1000!

Summing up, I hope that in the next

few months Chess Today will become

an even better and more professional

publication. We hope that our readers

will stay with us and that new people

will join us soon - your help in

promoting Chess Today is always

appreciated!

Ralph Marconi

(49)

I am originally

from the USA

(Bronx, NYC;

born in 1954),

but I have been

living and

working in Joliette, Qubec, Canada

since 1981. Joliette, is a medium size

town of about 50,000 and about 50

miles northeast of Montral. My wife,

Thrse, is from Qubec and is a

radiologist. We have two daughters,

Elaine (20) and Jennifer (19), sadly

neither of whom have an interest in

chess.

People behind Chess Today

When you receive our issues, you see

some text and 3 attached files - PDF,

PGN and CBV. But we hope that you

also see people behind this work -

those who prepare chess news and

annotated games for you every day!

We have a small 'Who is Who' section

on our website, but today I would like

to use this opportunity and tell you

more about our team. In some cases I

will talk about them, while in others

I'll use their own words. Let's start with

our editors.

Graham Brown (43)

I'm British and I live in

Stroud, which is a

town in the west of

England. I moved from

London 3 years ago.

Chess in London is

very exciting but it is here also, with a

competitive league. I still run the

Kings Head website (a great London

I am primarily a CC player and have

been playing for 28 years in both USA

and Canadian events and in ICCF

(International Correspondence Chess

Federation) international events. I

have thoroughly enjoyed the

experience, especially meeting many

interesting people over the years,

some of whom I have become good

friends with. I haven't had much

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