The Chess Oracle

A chess master died - and after a few days, a friend of his heard a voice; it was him!
'What's it like, where you are now,' he asked.
'What do you want to hear first, the good news or the bad news?'
'Tell me the good news first.'
'Well, it's really heaven here. There are tournaments and blitz sessions going on all the time and Morphy, Alekhine, Lasker, Tal, Capablanca, Botvinnik, they're all here, and you can play them.'
'Fantastic!' the friend said, 'and what is the bad news?'
'You have Black against Capablanca on Saturday.'

NY Open----GM Smirin wins with 7½/9

Bolton 2000
Sussex fall to Warwicks
Bucks Girls Tournament
Irish Championship----IM Heidenfeld wins
Edinburgh 2000----GM Rowson wins £1000
Japfa Classic----GM Polgar wins with GM Karpov/GM Khalifman second
Redbus Knockout----GM Adams beats GM Lalic in final
Australia Fisticuffs at a tournament!
Welsh Champonship IM Leighton Williams wipes the floor
South Herts 2000
Letchworth 2000
Crotia FIDE Zonal GM Beliavsky wins with 8/11
Kasparov vs Kramnik GM Seirawan delves into the Keene/Levy controversy
Oakham - Pert wins with 6½/9 R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9
GM Norm for Luke McShane GM Jon Levitt reports
Kasparov vs Kramnik GM Einar Gausel puts forward strong views
US Chess in Decay? Problems for the USCF ...
Terence Chapman Group Grand Prix GM Summerscale leads
Reykjavik - GM Norm for McShane? Short/Miles second Table Ratings
Kasparov Yasser Seirawan gives his opinion ...
Kasparov vs Kramnik WCC Match Kramnik accepts Press Conference
Chess@Iceland Kasparov beats Anand in final
Kent and Surrey Counties to merge?
9th Amber Tournament Shirov wins then Ivanchuk/Topalov/Kramnik
Adrian Laurence Sad death of a local player at a young age
ClubKasparov Another Deep Junior fiasco - Xie Jun gets the treatment ...
Essex Chess Association Enter May Bank Holiday Congress
Blackpool Another success for Gormally ahead of 4 GM's!
Linares Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Rd 7 Rd 8 Rd 9 Rd 10
Terence Chapman Group Grand Prix Arkell leads
Yanofsky dies Obituary
Oxford - Cambridge Cambridge win ... just
Adams - Deep Junior fiasco Mickey defends himself
Norwood/Hennigan millionaires! Jon Levitt reports
Jersey 2000 Tiger Hillarp-Persson wins with 6/7 with Chris Ward second on 5½/7
16th Cappelle La Granda Kruppa/Milos win 7½/9 - Gormally/Lalic/McNab/Miles/McDonald on 6/9
KasparovChess.com Grand Prix Piket BEATS Kasparov in the final!
Adams - Seirawan Match Adams wins 5-3
Bunratty 2000 Hebden/Nunn win - Jon Levitt reports
Terence Chapman grand Prix Arkell leads
Kings Head Rapidplay ENTER!
Wydra Rapidplay - Anand wins before Gelfand/Svidler Results
2nd White Rose International Kinsman wins
Corus Wijk aan Zee - Kasparov, Anand, Kramnik, Adams, Short Kasparov wins (again) by 1½ points!
Hastings 1999-2000 - Sutovsky wins, Dreev/Speelman second Final results
Khalifman-Leko Match - Leko wins 4½-1½ ... (oops!) See games and commentary
FIDE World Top 100 Check out the unknown Burmese!
FIDE UK Top 200 See our top players