A propos of this event, there is a splendid Freudian slip on the blog of "Ctrl-V", aka Susan Polgar. She entitles her report "Lassies (sic) and Old Timers". Presumably she means lasses, unless she is trying to imply that the female players involved are all old dogs!!

A new high in awful haircuts...

So nice to see the veterans in action

@Michael: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/lassies

@Bootvis: Now who exactly would you have in mind? ;)

Bootvis probably means Huebner and Korchnoi - or himself??

"She entitles her report “Lassies (sic) and Old Timers”. Presumably she means lasses, unless she is trying to imply that the female players involved are all old dogs!!"

Maybe she refers to this:

"The Polgar phenomenon is well recorded. The youngest of three Hungarian sisters (all chess masters), Judit, like Zsuzsa and Sofia, was taught at home by their psychologist father, Laszlo (and mother, Klara), who planned their entire family as an experiment to test his controversial theory that geniuses are made, not born, which led to Dominic Lawson in his controversial book, The Inner Game, to cruelly (and unfairly) christen her “Lassie”, because she was no more than just a trained dog"

http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/event/linares2001/r04lin.html

At the tournament's official site (http://www.praguechess.cz/en/index.php) it says "Lassies and Old Timers" in several places as well. So in any case Susan Polgar is not to blame for the introduction of the term "lassies", lads...

@TeresaZ: Ah, so it is just Ctrl V living up to her nickname!

@Michael:
After looking more closely at the relevant web pages, I'm afraid I must agree with you: Susan Polgar's "blog" at http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2009/12/lassies-and-old-timers.html is (as far as I have checked) a total copy of the text at http://www.praguechess.cz/en/index.php.

However, it seems that Susan is not alone in her use of Ctrl+V: compare the following passage from the official site with the 3rd paragraph of this very ChessVibes article:

Last year the Lassies versus Old Timers tournament was very even leveled , nevertheless it was won by the quartet of men (Anatolij Karpov, Vlastimil Hort, Fridrik Olafsson a Wolfgang Uhlmann). Out of the four Lasses ( Viktorije Cmilyte, Anna Ushenina, Jana Jackova a Katerina Nemcova) it was the Czech number one, Jan Jackova, who was perhaps the most successful. She managed to brought down in the first round of mini game the former world champion Anatolij Karpov.
(http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2009/12/lassies-and-old-timers.html)

Interestingly similar, I'd say, haha! But unlike Susan, ChessVibes has at least cleaned up the English a bit...

Oops: the last hyperlink in my previous comment should of course mention the official site, not Susan's blog (although the content is the same anyway!). It seems that I at least am not very good at using Ctrl+V yet...

I admire Viktor Korchnoi for still playing at a high level at the age of 78, but I don't like his personality.
Refusing to sign the score sheet or shaking hands after losing on time.
See video from Europe Echecs Rondes 3&4: Analyses des victoires féminines.

Victor is an old grumpy man, he should play in the Old people's home and not in tournements. He's absolute not a nice person. Hope the girls beat the shit out of him :-)