My guest in this week’s episode of the New In Chess Podcast is French grandmaster Joel Lautier. Although he was one of the world’s best players for more than a decade, his name may not automatically ring a bell with our younger listeners. Nevertheless, I am convinced that they will be as happy with today’s guest as I am. Let me first provide them with some background information. To begin with, Joel Lautier is the youngest Junior Chess World Champion in history. In 1988, at the age of 15, he won the title in Adelaide, Australia, ahead of the odds-on favourites Ivanchuk and Gelfand who were 19 and 20 at the time.Joel is also one of the few players who hold a lifetime positive score against Garry Kasparov. And, besides Vasyl Ivanchuk, he is the only grandmaster of his generation who defeated all world champions of his time, including the so-called FIDE World Champions. That’s such an impressive list that it’s worth mentioning them all: Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik, Khalifman, Anand, Ponomariov175
My guest in this week’s episode of the New In Chess Podcast is Dutch grandmaster Loek van Wely. The reason I invited Loek van Wely is the successful role he played as the captain of the winning team, the Triveni Continental Kings, at the recent Tech Mahindra Global Chess league in London.In a lively conversation, Loek talks about the innovative format of the Global Chess League and the impact it may have on the chess world. In passing he reveals his ambitions as a coach and gives his take on Vladimir Kramnik’s anti-cheating crusade that continues to fuel heated and widespread discussions online.The victory of the Triveni Continental Kings in London was extra special as they had also won the inaugural Global Chess League last year in Dubai. And that they won again with an almost completely different team. The only two members who participated in both editions were star player Wei Yi and coach Loek van Wely.Loek van Wely can look back on a rich career as a player. He won the Dutch championship175
These book reviews by Matthew Sadler were published in New In Chess magazine 2024#5
Milos Pavlovic has managed to write an interesting book full of boring openings. But luckily a massive endgame manual by Jacob Aagaard works pretty well as entertainment rather than just as instruction.
After the recent European Championship football final, The English Defence (Everyman) feels like a risky topic for Spanish Grandmaster Jose Gonzalez to put in front of an English reviewer!
In 316 pages, Gonzalez presents a complete repertoire for Black based around 1.d4 e6, which has been the perennial favourite of English free spirits such as Plaskett, Keene, Miles and Speelman (even Sadler sometimes ☺). Gonzalez also takes care to deal with all the annoying ways that White can avoid this line, most notably 2.♘f3 (recommending a lovely Rapport Stonewall Dutch line also analysed by Sedlak for Quality Chess) and 2.e4 (with a transposition back to the French).
Reading the book made me somewhat nostalgic. In175
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. Subject of this week’s episode is Dutch grandmaster Max Euwe (1901-1981).
Machgielis “Max” Euwe was a chess grandmaster, mathematician, author, and administrator who became the fifth World Chess Champion in 1935 when he defeated Alexander Alekhine. After losing the title two years later, he would continue to play with the world’s best for many more years before retiring in 1953. After retiring as a player, he served as FIDE president in 1970. In this capacity, he presided over the famous Fischer-Spassky of 1972. He had to navigate many other chess “situations” of the time, such as the defection of Viktor Korchnoi from the USSR and attempts by Soviet officials to remove him from power.
Genna, a fellow countryman, met Max Euwe around the time of the 1972 World Championship match, and the two175
My guest in this week’s episode of the New In Chess Podcast is grandmaster Alex Colovic. The reason I invited Alex is the publication of his new book Capablanca's Endgame Technique, The Astonishing Chess Logic of the Third World Champion. The book is published by New In Chess and is also available as a Chessable course.
Alex Colovic is a grandmaster from North Macedonia, who lives in Skopje, and is active in the chess world in many ways. He’s not only a player, but also a trainer, a blogger, a YouTuber, a former president of the Association of Chess Professionals, and a FIDE Fair Play Officer.
And a prolific writer. In his new book Capablanca's Endgame Technique, Alex Colovic pays tribute to one of his chess heroes, the Cuban genius who became the third World Champion and is admired by many as one of the greatest natural talents our game has ever seen.
Capablanca was famous for his impeccable endgame technique and Alex is convinced that studying his endgames is beneficial for players of175
This week’s New In Chess Podcast episode features a narration from “The Essential Sosonko”, a collection of chess portraits based on personal stories authored by chess grandmaster Genna Sosonko.
Born in Leningrad on March 21, 1931, Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi became one of the strongest players of his time. Over a three-decade span, he participated in ten Candidates tournaments and challenged world champion Karpov three times.
Anyone could sense Korchnoi’s fanaticism in chess. Only one thing counted for him, and that was to discover the truth. Chess was his life. He was brutally honest with himself in his analyses, and in his judgments about his opponents, he was equally uncompromising. Although he had strained or even hostile relationships with some of his colleagues, his spirit remained motivated to keep playing chess, which he did until a very old age.
Having helped Korchnoi on several occasions, including multiple World Championship Candidates tournaments, Sosonko can provide a first-hand175
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