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 [...]
Continue reading...13. October 2009
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!
Continue reading...24. September 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...26. July 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...8. June 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...19. May 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...11. May 2009
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
Continue reading...28. April 2009
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:
Continue reading...27. April 2009
Last week I posted Chess Puzzle #4. Below you will find the solution! Enjoy!
Continue reading...18. April 2009
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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25. April 2011
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