Chess Today ... information and downloads

For a long time I have been a fan of GM Alexander Baburin's fabulous daily chess newsletter Chess Today. For a modest subscription fee you can get (delivered to your email inbox) daily news from the chess world, annotated games, chess problems, coverage of current events and some editorial content on the critical issues facing today's chess players. Below is a statement by GM Baburin about his newsletter, followed by downloads of sample issues and databases. Check out these issues and see for yourself. Then subscribe and support this outstanding chess publication. Tell Alex that Franklin Campbell sent you.

Unlike so many OTB publications, Chess Today often covers the correspondence chess scene with news, games and commentary. Check out CT-1912 below for an example of the kind of coverage that appears from time to time. One of the technical editors of Chess Today is the well known cc personality Ralph Marconi. In my opinion the chess player of today should subscribe to at least these two superb publications ... the print magazine New in Chess and the electronic chess newsletter Chess Today.

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Improve Your Chess with Chess Today Newspaper! Chess Today is the first daily electronic newspaper on chess. It is delivered via e-mail, providing chess fans around the world with fresh tournament news, stories and annotated games. Each issue comes in 3 formats - in PDF (3-6 pages), PGN and CBV. Most issues have one well-annotated game and 1-2 tactical puzzles, as well as latest chess news. Many issues also contain letters from our readers, reviews, instructional materials, interviews and cartoons. Our main contributors are IMs Vladimir Barsky, Maxim Notkin and Nikolai Vlassov and GMs Ruslan Scherbakov, Mikhail Golubev and Alexander Baburin. Chess Today started in November 2000 and now we have readers all around the world, including more than 80 GMs. Among them are Anand, Svidler, Ivanchuk, Ju. Polgar, Shirov and Gelfand, as well as the rising chess stars Teimour Radjabov and Sergei Karjakin. We have over 1900 readers on our Free Trial list, where people receive one issue a month. Subscription price is 15 for 3 months, 25 for 6 months and 45 for a year. Subscribing is easy - you can pay by credit card, cheque, PayPal, bank transfer or cash posted in a registered letter. Subscribers need to provide their name and e-mail address to which they wish to receive Chess Today. For more information please visit www.chesstoday.net. If you like Chess Today, please tell your friends about it - we'll appreciate your help! Subscription is free for GMs and WGMs, so if you are lucky to be one and wish to receive the paper, please contact me at baburin@hotmail.com *[Note: GM Baburin clarified to me that this includes the ICCF GM and WGM cc titles. -- JFC]* GM Alexander Baburin
Following are links to download the sample newsletters in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat Reader format) followed by the associated database files.

CT-1914.pdf	Friday, 3 February 2006, CT-1914 - Georgiev wins Gibtelecom, Yasser Seirawan on FIDE, Chess for Peace by Irwin Fisk, AF4C Wildcards by John B. Henderson, Today's game is S. Karjakin (2660) vs V. Anand (2792) annotated by GM Mikhail Golubev
CT-1914.cbv CT-1914.pgn	The CBV file is a Chess Base archive and should be opened with Chess Base PGN file

CT-1913.pdf	Thursday, 2 February 2006, CT-1913 - Georgiev leads Gibtelecom, On FIDE President and Forthcoming Elections by GM Alex Baburin Today's game is S. Karjakin (2660) vs V. Topalov (2801) annotated by GM Mikhail Golubev
CT-1913.cbv CT-1913.pgn	The CBV file is a Chess Base archive and should be opened with Chess Base PGN file

CT-1912.pdf	Wednesday, 1 February 2006, CT-1912 - Georgiev leads Gibtelecom, Letters to the Editor, Correspondence Chess Today by ICCF Senior IM Junior Tay
CT-1912.cbv CT-1912.pgn	The CBV file is a Chess Base archive and should be opened with Chess Base PGN file