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Chess news: Dancing with queens -- The Croatian chess Grandmaster Bogdan Lalic emerged as sole leader in the seventh round of the British Chess Championship taking place in the splendour of Liverpool’s St Georges Hall, one of Europe’s finest neo-classical buildings recently restored to its former glory. Lalic is notoriously hard to beat and is often content to split the point but when he achieves an advantage in the opening he is very dangerous and he proved this against Lawrence Trent. Lalic has 5.5/7 with most of his main chess rivals half a point behind. Mark Hebden fell further back to 4.5/7 after losing Andrew Ledger. Hebden lost a piece but then put up stern resistance before succumbing on ... Assertive Surtees -- Grandmaster Danny Gormally has not lost for a year and Bogdan Lalic is very solid with black so a draw on top board was no surprise in round eight of the British chess championship at St Georges Hall in Liverpool. However elsewhere chess battle was joined and with three to play, three share the lead on 6/8. Stephen Gordon took advantage of a blunder by Nigel Davies while Stuart Conquest engineered the kind of unbalanced position in which revels and overpowered Andrew Ledger and these two joined Lalic on 6/8. Yang Fan Zhou scored a wonderful win over England international GM Nick Pert, one ... Fischer Random Chess -- In July 2007, researchers announced that they had, for all intents and purposes, solved checkers. There seems to be no danger of that happening in chess, which is many orders of magnitude more complex, in the foreseeable future. (There are roughly 10 to the 120th power possible games in chess vs. 5 x 10 to the 20th power possible positions in checkers.) Computers, nevertheless, have had a profound impact on chess. In some openings, it is possible to make 20 or even 25 moves before leaving well-known theory, a development that some chess players say has sapped creativity from the game. What to do? One answer is to play Chess960. Also known as Fischer Random Chess after ... | |