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Among the new features introduced in Fritz11 is the “Magic Eye”, accessible in 3D board mode. What is the Magic Eye and how does it work? Learn more about it in the newest
ChessBase Workshop column.

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The first three rounds of the French Top 16 League took place from
March 21th-23th, 2008, in four seperate venues covering leagues A and B. The
teams are playing with eight players per teams and at least one French female
player. Clichy and Mulhouse are leading in Group A, with nine points each, while
Cannes leads Evry by a point in Group B. Results, games and picture gallery.

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It was as bold as brass, the intention of the Swedish organizers enter the Guinness record book with the largest women’s event ever. In attendance: 46 women grandmasters and 44 international masters (the Moscow Women Open 2008 in February had 26 WGMs and 12 WIMs). The winner in this and the Moscow Open: IM Anna Muzychuk of Slovenia. Illustrated report by Valery Golubenko.

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If you search the phrase “Iran Chess” in one of the search engines, what will appear on your monitor hardly has anything to do with chess as a sport. Most of the search results refer to the politics, the chess battle of Iran and USA, or the nuclear chess game the IAEA has accused Iran of playing. But this is not all that is happening in Iranian chess. Big pictorial report by Arash Akbarinia.

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This October there will be a World Chess Championship between Vishy Anand and Vladimir Kramnik. The event will be broadcast on the Internet by the Dutch technology company DGT, using six cameras to show the action during the games. To demonstrate the new broadcast system DGT is staging a simultaneous exhibition between Kramnik and two strong players on April 2nd. Press release.

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In our final installment of a series on Fritz11’s calculation trainer, our columnist offers suggestions on creating your own “calculation training database”, including the option to save your completed training tests. You can discover more about it in the new ChessBase Workshop.

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In the blindfold games 25-year-old Levon Aronian, Armenia’s top grandmaster, scored 6.0/11, tying with Kramnik and Morozevich. In the rapid section he had 7.5/11, ahead of four players with 5.5 points each. In the combined scores he was (logically) 2.5 points ahead of his nearest rivals, Carlsen, Kramnik, Leko and Topalov. Aronian’s performance: 2868. Illustrated report with videos.

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“I propose,” writes one reader, “that a draw proposal should reduce the time at your disposal to 30 minutes, so you receive a great penalty at the beginning of the game, decreasing to no penalty when you have only 30 minutes or less (at the end of the game).” These and many other imaginative proposals have reached us in the past weeks on a problem that is occupying the thoughts of our readers.

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Two world-class players, both chess prodigies. This year the city of Miskolc in the north-east of Hungary will host a spectacular eight-game rapid chess match between national hero Peter Leko, Hungary’s top grandmaster, and the 17-year-old Norwegian GM Magnus Carlsen. The event lasts from May 27 to June 1st and takes place in the National Theatre of Miskolc. Press release.

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Levon Aronian is on fire: in round nine of the Blindfold and Rapid event in Nice he defeated Vishy Anand 1½:½, and in round ten whitewashed Alexander Morozevich 2-0. This put the Armenian GM in a commanding lead in both categories. In the overall score he leads with 12½ points ahead of Carlsen, Kramnik and Leko, who have ten points each. Illustrated report with lots of videos.

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