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Chess news: Money talks at the leisurely but rewarding Amber chess tournament -- Nice's annual Amber chess tournament is a semi-vacation in a luxurious ambience for the elite grandmaster corps. Its leisurely schedule requires half rapid chess, about one hour per game, and half blindfold chess, where the GMs sit in front of computers which each screen just an empty chessboard. Crucially, neither variant counts for the ranking list, the barometer which influences how much a GM can earn in chess tournament and exhibition appearance fees. But Amber (named after its computer billionaire sponsor Joop van Oosterom's daughter) has a €216,000 prize fund, and over the years it has become increasingly competitive. The last two world chess champions ... Humpy Koneru wins Women's Chess Grand Prix -- Humpy Koneru of India won the Women's Chess Grand Prix, which concluded March 19 in Istanbul. Koneru scored an impressive 8 1/2 -2 1/2 in the 12-player round robin. The average rating of 2481 made it the strongest women's chess tournament ever. Koneru is the second-highest-rated woman in chess history, behind Judit Polgar of Hungary. In Istanbul, her chief rival was 15-year-old Hou Yifan of China, who had defeated her in the semifinals of the 2008 world chess championship. Hou won their seventh-round showdown and took the lead with 6 1/2 - 1/2 . Later Koneru admitted, "Once I lost to Hou Yifan, I lost my hope to win the title." But she finished with three wins ... Bennett and King on chess: Ghaem Maghami-Karpov, Tehran 2009 -- Over the last few weeks we have been looking at the process of elimination as a way of finding the correct continuation. Is it appropriate to use that method here? In short, no. The process of elimination is mainly used in situations where there is a clear chess problem that needs solving - one side might be trying to force a pawn through in an endgame, or stave off mate when the king is under attack. Typically, there would be a limited number of moves to consider, and a systematic look at the options is required - just like a chess computer. In this position White does not have a clear goal and there are so many plausible continuations that you'd lose ... | |