Sing along in Slovenia

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11/8/2002 – While Garry Kasparov is chalking up a 3000 Elo performance on board one for the leading Russian team a Slovenian group is singing the praises of the game. Sample: "Chess! Black and White, checkered board's what we play on, your queen and my king can't meet, that's for sure. Closer and closer, your knight took my pawn..." The song and results are here.

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The song by the Slovenian group is definitely worth keeping. It is available in English Real or MP3, as well Slovenian Real or MP3. Meanwhile Garry Kasparov and his team from Russia are marching towards victory. Kasparov, who will turn 40 early next year, is displaying an incredible 3000 Elo performance on the top board. You will find links to all games and results at the bottom of this page.

Kasparov in Russia vs Hungary [Photos by Eugeny Atarov]

Top performance by individual players

Board	Player	Age	Elo	Score	Perf.
RUS 1	Kasparov Garry	39	2838	7 8	2985
TJK 1	Amonatov Farrukh		2518	9 10	2850
GEO 6	Gagunashvili Merab	17	2538	5 6	2832
RUS 3	Khalifman Alexander	36	2690	6½ 8	2827
ARM 1	Akopian Vladimir	30	2689	6½ 9	2815
POL 5	Markowski Tomasz	27	2549	7 8	2806
CHN 1	Ye Jiangchuan	41	2667	6½ 10	2778
MDA 1	Bologan Viktor	30	2627	6 8	2777
USA 2	Seirawan Yasser	42	2629	6½ 8	2776
HUN 6	Acs Peter	21	2591	6½ 8	2758
ENG 2	Short Nigel	37	2684	8 11	2757
HUN 2	Polgar Judit	26	2685	8 11	2756
AUS 1	Rogers Ian	42	2557	8 10	2747
ISR 1	Gelfand Boris	34	2704	4 6	2747

Robert Gwaze (2280) on ZIM 1 has scored 9 out of 9, for which no rating can be calculated.

Board	Player	Age	Elo	Score	Perf.
RUS 4	Kosintseva Tatiana	16	2427	8½ 9	2741
CHN 4	Zhao Xue	17	2367	8 9	2667
GEO 1	Chiburdanidze Maia	41	2497	8 10	2646
VIE 1	Hoang Thanh Trang	22	2420	8 10	2629
IND 1	Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman	23	2394	8½ 11	2612
CHN 2	Xu Yuhua	26	2473	8½ 11	2584
RUS 2	Matveeva Svetlana	33	2465	7½ 10	2580
USA 1	Krush Irina	18	2403	7½ 11	2546