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     This month the featured game is from the 1995 Donner Memorial. The players, 19 year old Judit Polgar and the creative and innovative Alexei Shirov, both played to win as a draw was never considered. Shirov plays a little too unsound and Polgar takes full advantage, forcing him to forego castling and struggle to hold the position. However, it is not to be for Shirov as he goes down in flames.
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Judit Polgar vs Alexei Shirov

2nd Donner Memorial (Round 6), 1995 
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Caro Kann Defense (By Transposition)


Position After 19. ...Rd7+

1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. Nc3 c6 4. Bc4 d6 5. Qf3 e6 6. Nge2 b5 7. Bb3 a5 8. a3 Ba6 9. d5 cxd5 10. exd5 e5 11. Ne4 Qc7 12. c4 bxc4 13. Ba4+ Nd7 14. N2c3 Ke7 15. Nxd6 Qxd6 16. Ne4 Qxd5 17. Bg5+ Ndf6 18. Rd1 Qb7 19. Rd7+ Qxd7 20. Bxd7 h6 21. Qd1 1-0

 

 

 

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Graphical Interfaces for Online Chess Servers: FICS, EICS, ICC

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CClient 1.41 The Cadillac of chess interfaces. A cornucopia of features includes: games sought graph, customizable wave file sound for many events; fully sizeable, true 3D board and pieces with customizable perspective and colors, real-time, customizable lists for things like games played, players available, games, etc. There are really too many features to list here. The only drawback is the playing board may be too small for some. But it is beautiful and the pieces are nice. My recommendation: 5

Winboard 4.0.2 This is an excellent chess interface. Comes with almost all the features of CClient. Also included is the GNU chess engine. Has ablility to replay .pgn files. Fully customizable. The board is not the best looking and it requires more memory to run than the other programs (the pieces tend to move slowly) but these are very minor complaints. My recommendation: 4
SLICS 2.5p AKA Chessbd. One of the first and best chess interfaces. A multitude of useful features. All windows are resizable. You can edit the logon scripts, select different piece configurations, configure or add new command buttons. This one's more for the advanced computer user who wants an interface styled specifically to their demands. My recommendation: 4
Thief Excellent program with all the necessary features. Also includes a large selection of boards and pieces. 4
BlitzIn 2.31 This is the ICC chess interface. Really the best for the ICC. If you only play there (and you shouldn't) this is the best. Beautiful board and piece set. Chat windows, telnet screen, etc. Main drawback is it only runs on ICC. I won't offer a recommendation here, its up to you. Unfortunately, the ICC is now proprietary and no other programs but BlitzIn can be used on the site. An unfortunate occurrence.
 
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