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Chess Week on Twitter
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Wednesday, 30 October 2013
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Pogonina.com offers you a selection of some of the most informative chess tweets from last week. A digest of the most important chess news in one short post:

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GM Laznicka's "Tough" Style
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Wednesday, 30 October 2013
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By GM Lars Bo Hansen, PhD, MBA

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The strong European Cup Club Championship finished with an upset victory by 5th seed G-Team Novy Bor (rating average only 2667 FIDE) ahead of favorites Malachite (average 2729) and SOCAR (average 2753). One of the big heroes of the winning team was GM Viktor Laznicka (2666) who in the 3-3 draw vs. Malachite beat Morozevich (2734) and in the penultimate round 3½-2½ upset against SOCAR defeated Kamsky (2725).

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Chess Tactics
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Tuesday, 29 October 2013

Terrieux (2415) - Balogh (2632), 2013, rapid
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European Club Cup, Final Standings
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Tuesday, 29 October 2013
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Monte-Carlo, gold: Hou Yifan, Humpy Koneru, Anna Muzychuk, Pia Cramling, Almira Skripchenko


Ugra, silver: Anna Ushenina, Natalia Pogonina, Baira Kovanova, Marina Romanko, Tatiana Shadrina


SHSM-Nashe Nasledie, bronze: Alexandra Kosteniuk, Valentina Gunina, Ekaterina Kovalevskya, Olga Girya, Anastacia Savina

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David vs. Goliath: Upsets of the Week
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Tuesday, 29 October 2013

By candidate master Peter Zhdanov, editor of Pogonina.com

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In this special weekly column we will be looking at the most unexpected upsets that happened last week. Players usually face opponents of a similar level. Considerably less frequent are situations when a significantly lower-rated player succeeds in beating a much stronger adversary.

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Computers and their all-pervading influence on modern chess
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Monday, 28 October 2013
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By GM Daniel Gormally, England, FIDE 2504

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Hal 3000- coming to a tournament near you.

Unless you've been hiding under a rock for the past twenty years or so, you wouldn't have failed to miss the huge influence that computers now hold over modern chess.

The explosion of popularity of chess programs like Rybka, Houdini and so on all really started with the very famous match of 1997, when the IBM-driven monster, Deep Blue, defeated the last bastion of mankind Garry Kasparov, in a tumultuous match.

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GM Adams - GM Aronian Annotated by GM Balogh
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Saturday, 26 October 2013
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By GM Csaba Balogh, Hungary, FIDE 2632

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The decisive game of the Bilbao Masters tournament. We are in the penultimate round, when Adams and Aronian were leading the event with the same score.

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European Club Cup, Round 6
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Saturday, 26 October 2013
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Monte-Carlo cruised through the tournament and won it with a round to go

One thing is certain in the women's tournament: Monte-Carlo repeated last year's success and won gold. Ugra is 2 MPs ahead of the nearest three rivals - SHM-Nashe Nasledie, CS Politechnica-Anabiotice Iasi and Mika Chess Club. However, according to the allegedly manually done pairings, only SHSM-Nashe Nasledie is basically guaranteed a medal due to facing the rating outsider (#11) of the tournament in the final round, while the other three teams in contention for the medals will be having really challenging match-ups...



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Natalia Pogonina: Over 100k Followers on Twitter
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Twitter is one of the best ways to chat with Natalia Pogonina. Make sure to follow her in case you aren't doing it yet

Natalia Pogonina on social networks:
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Joaquim Durao: Portuguese Chess Legend
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Friday, 25 October 2013
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By GM Kevin Spraggett, Canada, FIDE 2544
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Reaching 83 is a milestone in anyones life (one which I would also like to experience(!)) and today I would like to share with my readers some snap shots of Joaquims life in chess. Enjoy!

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