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Chess news: Fischer’s Friends -- After the chess champion Bobby Fischer settled in Iceland, he spent much of his time with a small group of people that he trusted. Though he died more than two years ago, that small group of confidants remain loyal and protective of him and his legacy. All of them are unhappy about the fight over his estate and about the recent procedure to extract D.N.A. from his remains to perform a test to determine if he is the father of a nine-year-old Filipino girl. To the outside world, Fischer in his later years seemed eccentric, even ghastly, spouting antisemitic comments and celebrating the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. But his friends say that image was misleading and even ... The endgame, part 2: a knockout blow -- How does white get a win from this position? RB Is there anything more headache-inducing in chess than an endgame study? And the simpler the position, the more intense the pain. I think, after almost an hour, that I've found the first three moves of the winning sequence, but I can't seem to find the knockout blow. 1 Kf6 seems obvious and good – go for the diagonal opposition! Since 1...g5 loses immediately to 2 Kg6, Black's only move is 1...Kh7. Now 2 g4 is equally obvious (after 2 h4 h5 White can make no further progress). Black has only two options, and since 2...h5 allows 3 g5, when the black king will be forced to retreat to the back rank and White will gobble up ... Ponomariov Victorious in Dortmund -- Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine only needed a draw on Sunday to win the Sparkassen Chess-Meeting tournament in Dortmund. He accomplished that without too much difficulty against Le Quang Liem of Vietnam and finished with a score of 6.5 points. The result should put Ponomariov in the top 10 in the world, according to Live Top List, an unofficial ranking site that has proved accurate in the past. Le Quang, 19, the lowest-ranked competitor in the field, who was playing in his first elite chess tournament, performed far better than expected and was second with 5.5 points. Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, the top seed, who has won Sparkassen nine times, had a disappointing ... | |