ELISTA, Russia The future of the world chess championship was in question Friday when a player did not show up for the fifth game and threatened to withdraw from the match after he was accused of cheating and locked out of his private bathroom. Vladimir Kramnik, a Russian, was accused by the manager for his opponent, Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, of taking too many bathroom breaks an apparent suggestion that he was secretly using a technical device or a computer program to help him with his moves. Kramnik, the Classical World Champion, had been leading Topalov, the World Chess Champion, 3-1 after four games in the 12-game match the sixth attempt to reunify the chess world since then-world champion Garry Kasparov broke away from the FIDE chess governing body in 1993.

Personal Chess Trainer is a chess training software that is based on the concept of memorizing tactics, strategies and endgames by (repeatedly) solving specific chess situations, and determining the....

The future of the world chess championship was in question Friday when a player did not show up for the fifth game and threatened to withdraw from the match after he was accused of cheating and locked out of his private bathroom.

I remember reading somewhere (probably Gdel Escher Bach) that most pro chess players remember groups of chess pieces rather than individual pieces. That is, a good chess player is far more likely to remember the positions of the pieces of an actual game than a novice, whereas both the pro and novice are equally likely to remember the positions of individual pieces added to a board at random.

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