October '00 Update
Moscow
RS291 OCT00 I tried to entice my opponent (one of the biggest experts of this opening) into the ending which we considered in RS108 NOV99 but he turned off the road first...
RS292 OCT00 Not the usual story for Alexey Dreev. One of the biggest experts of the variation is eliminated in brilliant style. A beautiful game!
QGA
RS293 OCT00 My opponent comes up with a very rare continuation. After the queen swap White has achieved small but stable advantage but soon he gets bored and decides to change the course of the game having enticed Black's King for a walk by a typical exchange sacrifice...
RS294 OCT00 In RS256 JUL00 Black was very lucky to survive a violent attack. Here is another heavy blow to the line 7 Bb3 b5. It seems that Black's approach really is as dubious as it looks.
RS295 OCT00 An interesting and exciting game. White might have been disappointed with the result but it is obviously Black who has much work to do on his opening.
RS296 OCT00 Doubt is cast upon Kramnik's 11 h4. This improvement looks really strong and only an inaccuracy at the critical moment allows White to avoid the worst.
Mainslav
RS289 OCT00 A completely new idea in a well-known position against what has recently been considered to be Black's best defence.
RS290 OCT00 In RS289 OCT00 we considered how skilfully Evgeny Bareev was defending against Vassily Ivanchuk. Very little time had passed and the same player was on the White side proving that Ivanchuk's idea really is promising.
a6 Slav
RS288 OCT00 The plan with 5 c5 has recently posed problems for Black. Here he tries to undermine White's pawn structure with all his forces but slightly forgets about development and is ruthlessly punished by an excellent positional piece sacrifice.