Summary of recent reviews

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The tournament to produce a contender for Kramnik is underway. In
case you haven't seen it, the main address of the site is...

Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2002
http://www.chessgate.de/dortmund/e/index.html

...where details are under 'Games Archive, Results, Tables and LIVE-
Games'. The eight players were split into two four-player preliminary
groups. Topalov and Shirov finished ahead of Gelfand and Lutz in the
first group, while Bareev and Leko beat out Adams and Morozevich in
the second.

Leko beat Shirov +2-0=1 in the first semifinal, and Bareev is leading
Topalov +2-1=0 in the second. While writing this, I'm watching the
Topalov - Bareev game in a separate window. Topalov must win this
game to force a tiebreak tomorrow.

The winner of Bareev - Topalov will meet Leko in game 1 of the final
match on Thursday, 18 July. The other three final games are scheduled
for 19-21 July, while 'tiebreak games shall take place not later than
one hour after the end of the last final game'. That's a tough
schedule, especially if Bareev - Topalov goes into tiebreak.

These are the first candidate matches since the...

PCA Candidates Matches
http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/9496pcix.htm

...where Anand beat Kamsky +3-1=7 at Las Palmas in 1995, earning the
right to challenge Kasparov. That match was held shortly after the...

FIDE Candidates Matches
http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/9496fcix.htm

...where Karpov beat Gelfand +4-1=4 and Kamsky beat Salov +4-0=3 at
Sanghi Nagar in 1995 to qualify for the last FIDE match held under
the pre-knockout rules.

According to the Prague Unity Plan...

World Chess Championship : 2002-03 Unification
http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/a2a3$wix.htm

...The winner of the Kramnik match will face the winner of
Ponomariov - Kasparov to produce the first undisputed world champion
since Kasparov in 1993. One page on the Dortmund Sparkassen site
says, 'Germany's greatest chess talent [...] will play against the
Dutch star Jan Timman who once played against Anatoli Karpov in the
final of a Classical World Chess Championship.' The suggestion by any
Kramnik supporter that Karpov - Timman was a legitimate title match
would have been unthinkable just a few months ago.

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I prepared an overview of my recent articles and loaded it at
address...

http://mark_weeks.tripod.com/chw02g15/chw-2g15.htm

...This summary page covers the 25 numbers since 2001 no.13 (2001-07-
01) and has links to the original reviews as well as to the pages of
supporting material.

Bye for now,
Mark Weeks

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