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Chess News #41: Robert Hess & Sam Shankland at the U.S. Chess Championships, St. Louis 2011

25. April 2011

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Hi all, At the moment the U.S. Chess Championships are being held in St. Louis, Missouri. Two 19-year olds have claimed all the attention, IGM Robert Hess and IGM-elect Sam Shankland. They have been cruising through to the semi-finales which are coming to an end this Easter weekend. In the video below two wins, one of [...]

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Chess News #40: Carlsen’s Performance In Nanjing 2009

13. October 2009

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Hi all, In the video below I discuss highlights from Magnus Carlsen’s wins played during the Pearl Spring Tournament in Nanjing 2009 recently. Enjoy!

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Chess News #39: Karpov - Kasparov, Video Analysis Rapid Match Valencia 2009

24. September 2009

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Hi all, The rapid match between Karpov and Kasparov in Valencia has come to an end. Kasparov has won it 3-1. Even though Karpov won the arguably best third game of the match, he suffered from a serious lack of proper time management in the other games. At times it seemed as if he was approaching [...]

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Interview With IGM Karel Van Der Weide

26. July 2009

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Press play to begin streaming the audio or right click the download text link and choose save as or save link. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download the MP3 [44 minutes - 41 MB] In this interview Karel and I talk about… chess! We discuss what it is like to be a chess grandmaster, how Karel has [...]

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[video] Chess News #37: Carlsen - Topalov

8. June 2009

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During the recent Super GM Tournament in Sofia - Bulgaria, Magnus Carlsen was on the verge of winning it. In the last round however he played to sharply against Alexei Shirov who beat him after tremendous complications in a Sveshnikov. This meant that Shirov won the tournament and that Magnus came second. Below Carlsen’s game from [...]

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[video] Chess News #36: Shirov Tricks Ivanchuk!

19. May 2009

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In a 3.Bb5+ Sicilian, Ivanchuk aimed for a Maroczy Bind. Shirov obliged and fianchettoed his dragon bishop. Shirov aimed for the freeing d6-d5 break and achieved it. Probably in trying to prevent a simplification of the position Ivanchuk pushed his luck a little bit too far. After a nice tactical intermezzo by Shirov he soon [...]

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[video] The World’s Most Famous Chess Combinations #12: Anand - Lautier, Biel 1997

11. May 2009

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In 1997 Anand managed to execute a nice and deadly combination against French top player Joel Lautier. In a messy Scandinavian middlegame one of Lautier’s bishops got trapped. This proved to be decisive in the end. Enjoy the video! Waldemar

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Experiment! Live Commentary On Harikrishna - Morozevich v.v., Odessa 2007

28. April 2009

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Hi all, Today I did an experiment live commenting two blitz games from the 2007 Pivdenny Bank Chess Cup in Odessa. It concerns Harikrishna - Morozevich & Morozevich - Harikrishna. The first video is of bad quality, the second one is already better ;-) Enjoy! Waldemar Experimenting Game #1: Harikrishna - Morozevich : Game #2: Morozevich - Harikrishna:

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[video] Chess Puzzle #4: Solution!

27. April 2009

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Last week I posted Chess Puzzle #4. Below you will find the solution! Enjoy!

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[video] Chess News #35: Karjakin - Aronian, Nalchyk 2009 (playing time: 9 min.)

18. April 2009

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Hi all, Yesterday Sergey Karjakin managed to win an interesting game against big gun Levon Aronian. Normally Aronian is very solid, but this time he was a bit too vulnerable and must have been baffled by the young Ukrainian’s play. Download PGN-file.

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