Today’s episode of the New In Chess podcast features an interview with Grandmaster Ramachandran Ramesh, also known as Ramesh RB or simply Ramesh. Ramesh is an award-winning chess coach, with pupils all around the world. He is also a popular chess author. His most recent title, Improve Your Chess Calculation, was published by New In Chess in 2022.
Ramesh is best known as the trainer of Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, popularly known as Pragg, and his sister Vaishali. Under Ramesh’s guidance, Pragg would eventually become, for a time, the highest-rated Indian player in the world, a position previously occupied by Vishy Anand for over three decades. But Ramesh’s influence on Indian chess extends beyond the performances of one player. As its number of grandmasters has grown from 1 in 1988 to 84 in 2024, Ramesh has played a continuous role in chess’s incredible rise in India.
Ramesh talks to Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam about Pragg’s win over World Champion Ding Liren in Wijk aan Zee, his relationship175
Today’s podcast features an interview with Croatian GM Davorin Kuljasevic. In addition to his accomplishments as a player, Davorin has achieved notable success as a chess trainer, having developed the talents of several grandmasters in his 16-year coaching career. He has also authored several bestselling books, including "Beyond Material" and "How to Study Chess on Your Own".
Together with Remmelt Otten, Davorin discusses his latest book, "Ding Liren's Best Games: A Chess Biography of the World Champion". He also goes into detail about his career as a player and coach, and talks about his future projects.Â
Timestamps:0:00 Intro2:37 What sparked Davorin’s interest in Ding Liren?3:58 Was Davorin surprised by Ding’s lack of activity after winning the world title?6:20 How Davorin started following 16-year old Ding in 20088:20 Ad break8:56 What makes Ding special?11:00 Ding’s active king play, famous king walks13:14 Can fearless play be taught?15:00 Ding’s immortal game16:28 What did Davorin175
When you see the two names Viktor Moskalenko and Matthew Sadler together in one chess article, you know you’re in for a treat. These two strong grandmasters are also two of the most infectious chess authors around.
When I first got in contact with Viktor, it must have been in 2006, I knew he was a strong grandmaster and a former champion of Ukraine. When this renowned player told me he wanted to publish a book on the obscure (but Fabulous!) Budapest Gambit with New In Chess, I nearly fell off my chair. Its first edition appeared in 2007, it was a great success, and it was the start of a whole series of ‘Moska’ books that were stunning due to Viktor’s countless creative findings, the humorous way in which he presents them with a myriad of gadgets and surprising illustrations, and his all-encompassing enthusiasm. As Viktor puts it in the preface to his latest book, the updated The Perfect Pirc-Modern, ‘the path to success can only be found through creativity’.
Well, these books are not only175
Today's podcast features an interview with Grandmaster Peter Svidler. Peter is a three-time Candidate for the World Championship, a World Cup winner and eight-time Russian Chess Champion. Besides his accomplishments as a world-class player, Peter is one of the most respected and popular chess commentators on the planet.
Interviewed by Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam, Peter looks ahead to the upcoming Tata Steel Chess Tournament, while also sharing his thoughts on the recent developments in the Candidates' cycle, Chess960, and the next generation of superstars.
Dit is de eerste aflevering van de New In Chess Podcast. Gast van vandaag is grootmeester Paul van der Sterren. Paul heeft een indrukwekkende carrière als profschaker achter de rug. Zo won hij tweemaal het Nederlands kampioenschap, plaatste zich voor het kandidatentoernooi van 1994, en vocht schaakgevechten uit met de grootste namen van zijn tijd, onder wie Karpov, Timman, Korchnoi en Najdorf.
Het schaken is Paul altijd blijven boeien. Na zijn actieve carrière als speler bracht Paul meerdere boeken uit, waaronder zijn autobiografie, "In Black and White", en "Mindful Chess: The Spiritual Journey of a Professional Chess Player", waarin Paul verder ingaat op zijn spirituele zoektocht op en naast het schaakbord.
In the summer of 2021, at the height of the Covid pandemic, Abhimanyu Mishra became the youngest chess Grandmaster in the world. The American prodigy stopped the clocks at 12 years, 4 months and 25 days. His passionate quest for the GM title and the tough challenges he and his father Hermant had to overcome, ‘Abhi’ described in an evocative manner in his book The Youngest Chess Grandmaster in the World (New In Chess, 2022).The grandmaster title was to be a stepping stone to even higher goals and bigger dreams. Over the past two years Mishra duly continued to improve. In the January 2024 FIDE rankings his rating had risen to 2627. His New Year’s wish to his fans and followers on X read: ‘2023 was a good year. I managed to become the highest rated American junior and get into top 10 juniors in the world list at the age of 14.’
Mishra’s best memory of the Grand Swiss was his victory, full of tactics, against legend Vasyl Ivanchuk
The last classical event Mishra played in 2023 was the FIDE175
This book review by Matthew Sadler was published in New In Chess magazine 2023#8
I confess that when I saw the title of Jan Timman’s new book The Art of the Endgame. My Journeys in the Magical World of Endgame Studies (New In Chess) I expected this to be largely a collection of Jan’s favourite endgame studies by other composers, with a few of his own studies sprinkled into the text. I had simply no idea that Jan’s compositional output is so vast that it can fill the lion’s share of this 256-page book, nor that my jaw would drop so often to the floor in awe and wonder at what he has created during his life!This is a revised edition of a book that first came out in 2011 but I guess I missed it at the time – very happy to have caught it the second time around! The book is divided into 14 chapters, with themes such as ‘Rook against Bishop’, ‘Knight promotions’, ‘Mutual Zugzwang’ and ‘Building a Fortress’.
It’s hard to give you my favourite example from the book, as this keeps changing every175
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