This week’s episode of the New In Chess podcast features an interview with Dutch grandmaster Anish Giri, one of the strongest and most popular chess players in the world.
A prodigy, Anish achieved the grandmaster title at the age of 14 and steadily grew into one the world’s leading players, eventually joining the select group of grandmasters to have breached the 2800-barrier. Among his finest victories is last year’s Tata Steel tournament in Wijk aan Zee.Anish is also one of the most many-sided players around. His online presence has brought him hundreds of thousands of followers, he has produced highly successful Chessable courses and he is, of course, a contributing editor to New In Chess magazine.Interviewed by Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam, Anish looks ahead to the Candidates tournament that will kick off on April 3rd in Toronto. Providing great insights, he assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the eight Candidates and speaks openly about his expectations and personal favourites. Anish’s175
This week's episode of the New In Chess Podcast features an interview with International Master Thomas Willemze.
Thomas is one of New In Chess’s most prolific authors, with a varied body of work that includes opening books, puzzle books, endgame books, and strategy books. His two latest works, “What Would You Play” and “World Chess Champion Strategy for Club Players”, have received positive reviews for their high-quality analysis and educational approach, which aims to simulate over-the-board situations as much as possible.
In addition to his authorship, Thomas has had 30 years of experience as a coach and draws heavily from his coaching experience when structuring his material. Perhaps surprisingly, he has found that a game does not have to be played at grandmaster level to be educational. “What Would You Play” draws lessons from games played at all levels, including by a very young Magnus Carlsen, popular online streamer and influencer Alexandra Botez, and Thomas himself.
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This week’s episode of the New In Chess Podcast features an interview with Dutch grandmaster Loek van Wely.
During the peak years of his career, “King Loek” boasted a FIDE rating of 2714, won six Dutch national championships in a row, and reached the quarterfinals of the Candidates tournament. Now in his fifties, he continues to play at a healthy 2600-level and has expanded his work as a trainer and second, working with world-class players like Gata Kamsky and Vladimir Kramnik early on. In 2019, Loek embarked on a political career in The Netherlands, becoming a senator for the alt-right Forum For Democracy party.
Together with Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam, Loek looks back on his careers in chess and politics and gives his two cents on the upcoming Candidates tournament, among many other things!
Timestamps00:00 – 01:15 Intro01:16 – 01:40 Being excited about the podcast01:41 – 02:52 Playing in the German cup, experiencing some fatigue02:53 – 04:40 His fondest (chess) career memories04:41 – 05:24175
On the eve of the Tata Steel tournament, all eyes were on World Champion Ding Liren, as he re-entered the chess arena after a six-month break. And on Women’s World Champion Ju Wenjun, who made her debut in the Masters. But it was the third Chinese ace, 24-year-old former prodigy Wei Yi, who stole the show as he claimed the winner’s trophy ahead of all the top favourites.
[The complete interview with Tata Steel Chess winner Wei Yi can be found in New In Chess magazine 2024#1. Get access to this issue!]
Brilliant gamesThe winner of the Tata Steel Masters played several impressive games. Below Wei Yi annotates his spectacular win against Max Warmerdam. You don’t often see a rook sacrifice on move 9 in a grandmaster game.
Wei YiMax WarmerdamWijk aan Zee Tata Steel 2024 (11)Bishop’s Opening C27
This game was played in Round 11, when my score was only plus-1. The only chance for me to fight for first place was to win my last three games. So I chose to play something that is not so popular, 2.♗c4175
This week's episode of the New In Chess Podcast features a narration of a chapter from The Essential Sosonko, a collection of chess portraits written by legendary grandmaster and chess author Genna Sosonko. Sosonko's chess writings, rather than being technical, chronicle the lives of the former and current top players with whom he has crossed paths.
In today's episode, Sosonko takes us along the path of his own personal history against the background of the geopolitical situation in Europe and Russia in the second half of the 20th century, and provides insight into why he took up the pen to write his chronicles.
Enjoy the stories in today's reading, narrated by professional voice actor Nick Murphy, from The Essential Sosonko Chapter 1: 'A Vanished Age'.
Timestamps:00:00 - Intro01:10 - The similarities and differences between Saint Petersburg and Amsterdam03:16 - Sosonko's childhood connections with the Netherlands04:58 - The influences of the Netherlands on Tsar Peter the Great, founder175
The advise is quite simple. Learn from your mistakes, and identify your mistakes by reviewing your games. But how do you do that? These five steps will help: start writing, zoom in, zoom out, consult a friend or coach, and only then start the engines.
by Nate Solon
*** This column appeared in New In Chess magazine 2024#1. Please let us know what you think of this new column. ***
Chess is hard. It’s hard to find the best moves with your clock ticking and your opponent breathing down your neck. It’s also hard to find the best moves at home, with a coffee, with unlimited time. Maybe not quite as hard, but still really hard!
For this reason the age-old advice to review your games, while undoubtedly good, could also use some elaboration. How, exactly, should you approach the review process to get as much as you can out of it?
Start by recording your thoughtsThis is my first suggestion because it’s something players of all levels can do. You don’t need to correctly analyze every possibility175
This week's episode of the New In Chess Podcast features an interview with Dutch grandmaster Sergey Tiviakov.
A talented player in his youth, Sergey studied under former World Champion Vasily Smyslov along the likes of Vladimir Kramnik. After the fall of the Soviet Union, he won the U-18 world title and later emigrated to the Netherlands, where he would win multiple national championships as well as a European Championship in 2008. Sergey's dominance in tournament play culminated in a baffling 110-game unbeaten streak, a feat surpassed by only some of the greatest players of all time.
Sergey's book, “Rock Solid Chess”, has received unanimous praise from critics, including the very best players in the world, for its novel insights. Sergey describes his chapter on opposite-coloured bishops as a personal favourite. Additionally, the book takes a different approach to engine analysis: where some annotators would be happy to call a -0.05 evaluation a dead draw, “Rock Solid Chess” tries to look175
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