ARTICLES
06.04.2007
M.Notkin. Who’s Afraid Of The Queens Exchange?
All the games that won the highest degree of approval from the experts had already been discussed in the Web. As usual it fell to my lot to go into the works of the "lighter entertainment" nature. Let's begin with a long and elegant combination carried out by the youngest GM in the world.
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22.03.2007
M.Notkin. The best game of February
The columnist IM Maxim Notkin presents the best games of February
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01.03.2007
Best game of January - Shirov-Radjabov
International master Maxim Notkin concludes the expert voting for the best game of January.
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17.02.2007
M.Notkin. The best game of January
International master Maxim Notkin concludes the expert voting for the best game of January
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31.01.2007
The best games of December
M.Notkin : The best games of December
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18.12.2006
14 best creative achievements of November
The columnist IM Maxim Notkin presents 14 best creative achievements of November to the experts and readers’ estimate.
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27.11.2006
M.Notkin. The best game of October
The best games of October
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17.10.2006
M.Notkin. The best game of September
The columnist IM Maxim Notkin presents The best game of September
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30.09.2006
The best game of August: Zvjaginsev – Zhang Pengxiang
International master Maxim Notkin concludes the expert voting for the best game of August..
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08.09.2006
M.Notkin. Unbearable Heaviness of Rook
Hot guys fought hard in the heat of July. And, to be accurate and consistent, hot girls fought, too. Some experts noted that the selection is generally not very impressive, but I will try to annotate it to reverse that impression. There is something curious in each of the encounters above.
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31.08.2006
The best game of July: Pelletier - Volokitin
International master Maxim Notkin concludes the expert voting for the best game of July.
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03.08.2006
MAXIM NOTKIN. HEAT IT UP
International master Maxim NOTKIN comments selected games played in June.
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02.06.2006
Maxim Notkin. Treasures of the Island of Freedom
As usual, my review features games that are not very well known to the Russian-speaking reader. Strangely, the encounter Morozevich-Moiseenko, which won our April contest, also falls under this category. As far as I concerned, it hasn`t been deeply analyzed neither in chess magazines and newspapers nor on the Internet. However, I consider it wrong placing the masterpiece among lighter works. Maybe one of our experts will take the responsibility of discovering all the subtleties of that game. And so far I am pleased to present you a mixture of foreign melodies.
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25.05.2006
Topalov-Anand becomes the best game of the year!
The voting for the best game of the year 2005 by the e3e5 website version is now concluded. We nominated the games that had taken top three positions is our monthly lists. Some experts decided to mention other games, which in their opinion deserved being included in top 36 at least, for instance, Ponomariov’s win over Topalov in Sofia or a glorious draw Anand-Topalov from the same tournament. Maybe we will change the regulations in future, although each of the nominated games entered the top 10 of at least one expert.
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08.05.2006
Tigran Petrosian and Evgeny Bareev become the March laureates
International Master Maxim Notkin concludes the March best games voting.
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29.03.2006
Alexander Motylev annotates the game Vallejo - Dominguez
Grandmaster Alexander Motylev annotates one of the best games of February.
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27.03.2006
Maxim Notkin. Two February laureates
International Master Maxim Notkin concludes the expert voting in February.
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07.03.2006
Maxim Notkin. Spicy dessert
International Master Maxim Notkin reviews the best games played in January.
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01.03.2006
M.Notkin. Topalov-Aronian becomes the best game of January
For a second year in a row I realize that carrying out a January best game contest is not an easy task. In February most regular members of our expert committee participate in the Aeroflot open, then travel to Cappelle la Grande, and so on. I did not want to disturb participants of the coming Women’s World Championship on such an unimportant although pleasing occasion, too. Finally, my call was heard by Evgeny Gleizerov, Alexander Motylev, Emil Sutovsky, Mikhail Kobalia, Evgeny Najer, Sergey Soloviov, Ilya Odessky and Vladimir Barsky. Legitimacy of voting of this jury is doubtless.
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01.02.2006
Beyond comparison in December: Motylev – Bareev
Alexandra Kosteniuk, Evgeny Gleizerov, Mikhail Kobalia, Emil Sutovsky, Sergei Soloviov, Ilya Odessky and also Sergei Ivanov and Sergei Klimov, whose eloquence will relieve me of the duty of presenting encounters-nominees by myself, participated in the summing up the last month of the passed year’s results.
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