This week’s episode of the New In Chess Podcast features a narration from “The Essential Sosonko”, a collection of chess portraits based on personal stories authored by chess grandmaster Genna Sosonko.
This episode is the second of a two-part story about the sixth World Chess Champion Mikhail Botvinnik (you can find the first part here). Following his defeat against Petrosian in 1963, he played on for seven more years until he retired from competitive chess in 1970.
The previous episode ended with Botvinnik sharing his own view on several of his competitors and contemporaries. In this episode, we continue where we left off, starting with Botvinnik’s views on Karpov and Kasparov, respectively, and proceeding to have Botvinnik shed light on the careers of those with whom he has crossed swords at the highest level.
Sosonko relays his experiences with Botvinnik, whom he met on multiple occasions throughout the years, both in the Netherlands and in Moscow. The audience gets a unique glimpse175
This week’s New In Chess Podcast guest is English chess writer and editor Jimmy Adams.
Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam talks to Jimmy Adams about his latest chess historical gem, an impressive four-volume set dedicated to the splendid career of Paul Keres, according to many, the strongest chess grandmaster in history never to become world champion.
To this day, Keres remains a hero in his native Estonia. When he died in 1975, a crowd of 100,000 Estonians turned out for his funeral in Tallinn.
Jimmy Adams has a rich career in chess publishing, both as an editor (CHESS magazine, Batsford and others) and as a writer and compiler of literally countless books.
Among his best-known books published by New In Chess are impressive tomes on Breyer, Chigorin and Zukertort.
The Keres books can safely be called Jimmy Adams’s magnum opus:
4,000 pages
550 Keres games in volumes 1 & 2 annotated by his contemporaries
Many more annotated by Keres himself in volumes 3 & 4
Hardcover edition
Two slipcases
A biography175
This week’s episode of the New In Chess Podcast features a narration from “The Essential Sosonko”, a collection of chess portraits based on personal stories authored by chess grandmaster Genna Sosonko.
This episode is the first of a two-part story about Mikhail Botvinnik. He won the 1948 World Chess Championship tournament and thus became the sixth World Chess Champion, thereby succeeding Alekhine who had died two years prior. He lost and regained the title twice – to Smyslov and Tal respectively – before he was ultimately dethroned by Petrosian in 1963.
In that same year, Botvinnik founded his own chess school, which ensured that the Soviet Union dominated the world of chess for many years to come. The “Soviet School of Chess” has world champions such as Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, and Vladimir Kramnik among its graduates, as well as many other Grandmasters.
In addition to his chess career, Botvinnik was very interested in engineering. He sought to combine the two and became one of175
American grandmaster Robert Hess is this week’s guest on the New In Chess Podcast. In the second half, he speaks to Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam about his work as a highly popular star commentator for Chess.com, but before they get there, Robert talks passionately about a book that just appeared, and that is very close to his heart.
The book Dream Moves, published by New In Chess, was written by Miron Sher, the only trainer Robert Hess ever worked with. Miron Sher was a legendary coach who was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the United States in 1997. Other prominent players that he worked with include Fabiano Caruana and Peter Heine Nielsen.
Robert Hess wrote an introduction to the book, and the first sentence reads: ‘I would not be where – or who – I am without Miron Sher.’
In fact, Dream Moves, Eye-Opening Chess Lessons for Improvers, was primarily inspired by Robert.
When he was working with Sher, Robert at some point asked him from which book he took all the fabulous games that175
These book reviews by Matthew Sadler were published in New In Chess magazine 2024#3
Books dedicated to adult improvement can have long-lasting value. Especially the human thought process around the moves (below elite level) hasn’t changed as much in the past thirty years as you would think.by Matthew Sadler
We start this month’s reviews with some books dedicated to (adult) improvement, starting with Perpetual Chess Improvement by Ben Johnson (New In Chess). Over the last few years, Ben Johnson’s Perpetual Chess Podcast has become a haven for intelligent conversation about chess, covering a wide range of topics such as elite chess and chess books! One popular series within the podcast is dedicated to ‘Adult Improvers’, where amateurs with varied chess backgrounds explain how they train and try to improve. This series – running now since 2017 – was the inspiration for Perpetual Chess Improvement, with 41 interviews providing a host of tips, tricks and discussion material!
The book is divided175
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