1/15/2015 – Chess talent and a love for the game are fine things to have. However, many good chessplayers also had and have other passions. Emanuel Lasker held a PhD in Mathematics and liked to play Bridge and Go, Paul Keres was an excellent tennis player, and Anatoly Karpov owns an exquisite collection of stamps. Top players often reveal surprising skills.
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Your key to fresh ideas, precise analyses and targeted training! Everyone uses ChessBase, from the World Champion to the amateur next door. It is the program of choice for anyone who loves the game and wants to know more about it. Start your personal success story with ChessBase and enjoy the game even more.
Enjoy the best moments of recent top tournaments (World Cup, Isle of Man Open) with analysis of top players. In addition you'll get lots of training material. For example 10 new suggestions for your opening repertoire.
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For years now Elisabeth Pähtz, 2002 Youth World Champion U18, 2004 Junior World Champion U20, has been Germany's number one women player. She is very active and claims to be "at home when at chess tournaments". Hovever, on the occasion of her 30th birthday on January 2015 she revealed to the German newspaper Thüringer Allgemeine other passions apart from chess. As she said, if not for her chess career, she would have liked to study voice.
Elisabeth Pähtz visiting Hamburg
Not without reason. As the following performance at the Chess Olympiad 2014 in Tromso showed.
The song "Can't help falling in a love again" has been a favorite of many interpreters, the most famous one was arguably Elvis Presley - who, incidentally, was also born on January 8 1935, on the day 50 years before Elisabeth Pähtz.
And did you recognize the man on guitar accompanying Elisabeth Pähtz? It is no other than outspoken columnist, eloquent commentator and former World Championship challenger Nigel Short. In fact, Short not only knows how to put pawns and pieces on the right squares and to explain chess but also knows how attractive a guitar can be.
His ironic, sometimes acerbic wit, and his extensive knowledge of the game and its history also make the two ChessBase DVDs, on which he retells his career, entertaining and a pleasure to watch. No wonder he called them "Greatest Hits 1" and "Greatest Hits 2".
Johannes FischerJohannes Fischer was born in 1963 in Hamburg and studied English and German literature in Frankfurt. He now lives as a writer and translator in Nürnberg. He is a FIDE-Master and regularly writes for KARL, a German chess magazine focusing on the links between culture and chess. On his own blog he regularly publishes notes on "Film, Literature and Chess".
In this opening Black opts for active piece play and is not afraid to fight for the initiative from an early stage. One of the many good features of this opening is that Black is often the side which controls the pace of the game.
The French Defence Powerbase 2021 is a database and contains 9839 games from the Mega 2021 and the Correspondence Database 2020, 644 of which are annotated.
The main part of the material on which the French Powerbook 2021 is based comes from the playchess.com engine room: 637,000 games. An impressive number to which 80,000 games from correspondence chess and the Mega were added.
Looking for a surprise weapon against 1.e4? Try the Stafford Gambit! After the moves 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5, rather than following the solid lines of the Petroff after 3...d6, Black prefers to sacrifice a pawn with 3...Nc6 4.Nxc6 dxc6.
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