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Chess Players Write New FIDE-Rating List Dear chess friends, The new FIDE rating list has brought us as many surprises as no one earlier. Four years ago the chess world was shocked by the exclusion of Kasparov and Short. Today FIDE has made another step, excluding hundreds of players of...

Chess players writeBalashov-ShirevDear Sir,In NIC 93/7 Shirov accused me of stealing his annotations. I would like to draw attention to a few things:1)Mr. Shirov seems to have forgotten that I was also in the tournament in which the game Bal-ashov-Shirov was played, and since Balashov and I are...

BeliavskyDear Editor,In August 1990, I gave an interview to Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam which was published in New in Chess 90/6.During this interview I made a number of personal comments on grandmaster Beliavsky. During my visit to the chess olympiad in Novi Sad, I had the opportunity to discuss my...

has a third possibility besides those given by you (Sf4 and Wg3), viz. 24.Sh4! (threatening to take on c8). There can follow:A)24 d6 25.1'g3 '?'hS26.