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"Sunny day, strong opponents" |
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
 Past Saturday, 17 August 2008, chess was live to see in the two-hour ZDF show “Fernsehgarten”. The three members of the German national teams, Jan Gustafsson, Klaus Bischoff and Melanie Ohme, were challenged by 32 players each at “Speed Chess”.
Photo: Jan Fischer, Frankenpost |
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We will fight - We can do it! |
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
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 Interview with Shakryar Mamedjarow, Vassily Ivantschuk and Sarunas Sulskis.
In a group of four we continue our talks with the top players of the upcoming Olympiad. Besides Vassily Ivantschuk, Ukranian number one player and recent world ranking number 4 with Elo 2781, we met Shakryar Mamedjarow (2742 / 8) and the fugleman of Vasilly, Lithuanian Sarunas Sulskis (2562). |
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
 In the Chess Olympiad from 12 to 25 November 2008 in Dresden Germany will be participating with two Open and two Women’s teams as approved by FIDE. In case of an uneven number of participants Germany is even allowed to send one third additional team per competition. For the Open it is destined to nominate players from the whole country whereas in the women’s section a Saxon equipe will get the chance to participate. |
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Chess Olympiad stopping over in Bautzen |
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
 With a variegated programm and many opportunities to play chess the Roadshow of the Chess Olympiad Dresdn 2008 – „Road to Dresden“ lured numerous visitors to the Kornmarkt shopping center in Bautzen last weekend. Tournaments for everyone animated plenty of amateur and hobby chess players to get on the boards; as many as never before at the previous promotion events. On the 30 provided boards, all of them continuously busy, whoever felt like it could indulge in the royal game. |
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Chess on Tour: by bike to Dresden |
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Friday, 01 August 2008 |
 This Saturday, the last stage of the Tour de Schach will bring the participants to Dresden – finally. They will be welcomed by Mayor Winfried Lehmann at 1:00 pm in the newly opened Café of the Dresden City Museum, “Café Krubsacius”. But there won’t be much time to rest, as shortly afterwards the bikers get together to play out the winner of the “2nd Chess Biker Cup“. Therefore, the enthusiastic sportsmen and –women are to trade their bikes off for chessboards in order to determine the victor of the most quaint tournament of the year. Rule is: Only who rode his bike in the last or any stage of the tour is allowed to participate in the tournament. |
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With the Chess Olympiad on TV! |
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Friday, 01 August 2008 |
 The Chess Olympiad will have airtime at the ZDF-Fernsehgarten TV live show Sunday, 17 August 2008, when three players of the German national Olympiad squad will play against a total of 96 voluntary players. Each Grandmaster will thereby challenge 32 opponents at a form of ‘Speed Chess’. |
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Collateral Tournaments of the Chess Olympiad 2008 |
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Friday, 01 August 2008 |
 New: The most recently released invitations to the collateral tournaments Blitz, Tandem, Family and Silent Chess are now to be found on our website at "Collateral Tournaments" and can be downloaded there! Invitations to and information on other tournaments will equally be found there. |
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 |
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 Chess Olympiad 2008: Russia sending the strongest team of all times
„Russia, lead on by world championship candidate Vladimir Kramnik, will participate in the Chess Olympiad with the strongest team ever to take part in a team competition“ announced First Mayor of the City of Dresden, Dr. Lutz Vogel, welcoming the Board of Trustees of the Chess Olympiad 2008. |
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Monday, 14 July 2008 |
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 German Olympiad squad nominated
Friday, 11 July, national head coach Uwe Bönsch announced the nominees for the four Olympiad teams. On the national team Open will play the only A-squad players…
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Jan Gustafsson and the culture of moaning |
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Thursday, 10 July 2008 |
 Jan Gustafsson is member of the German national team and has just placed shared second in the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Days with an excellent score of 4 of 7 against world stars of chess. On the occasion of the nomination of the German team for Dresden Friday, 11 July, Klaus J. Lais spoke with him in Dortmund. Hamburg-born Gustafsson envisages the coming Chess Olympiad and talks about the situation of chess in Germany. |
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