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). This is the third part of Sosonko’s series on Euwe; Part 1 was covered in our October 19 episode, Part 2 on November 8. 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 would later serve as FIDE president starting in 1970. In this capacity, he presided over the famous Fischer-Spassky of 1972 and had to navigate many other chess “situations” of the time, such as the defection of Viktor Korchnoi from the USSR and attempts by Soviet175
This week’s episode of the New In Chess Podcast features an interview with Indian grandmaster Swayams Mishra. A FIDE trainer since 2018, Swayams is already a decorated chess coach, having worked with the Indian national team for several years and coaching their women’s team to gold at this year’s Olympiad. His private coaching has also been successful: having cultivated over thirty FIDE norms from his students, he was recently responsible for giving Britain its youngest ever grandmaster, when prodigy Shreyas Mishra achieved the title at 15 years and seven months. Other notable players who have achieved success under Swayam’s tutelage include five-time Indian Women’s Champion Padmini Rout and promising young talent Ethan Vaz, among many others.
Jacob Aagaard is hosting this week’s episode, and he does so with a reason; while Swayams eventually achieved great success after transitioning into coaching, he was once a promising young player with a coach of his own: Jacob Aagaard. This shorthand175
I am in Singapore for a training camp with a private student and to be part of a four-man team that will give a training camp to some of the region's biggest talents during the start of the World Championship Match. The other trainers will be long-term friends Boris Gelfand, Pavel Eljanov, and Thomas Luther.
I tend to overprepare for big group camps. I find it helpful, even if things often take a different turn once things begin. At least I am mentally prepared. So, I have been spending a lot of my time thinking about the camp and less of it thinking about the World Championship.
But everyone comes with a prediction these days, and I do not want to be different. There are only two reasonable predictions. It will be close, or Gukesh will win by a significant margin. Most have hedged their bets, saying both. I shall refrain from cowardice and predict a blowout +2 or +3 win for Gukesh that never feels competitive. I also expect Ding to retire after the match, should he lose. It has175
New In Chess recently published a new book on the Center Game by Arne Moll. The author found an original way to launch his book by organizing a thematic tournament where playing the Center Game was mandatory.Below is a short report on this event, complete with pictures and a tactical game commented on by the author himself.
On 17 November, Arne Moll’s new opening book, “The Center Game,” was launched with a blitz tournament in Amsterdam in which the moves 1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.Qxd4 were mandatory. In café Eighty-Four, located in the eastern part of the city, prominent chess players of all ages from the Amsterdam area gathered to play a thematic tournament celebrating this ancient chess opening, characterized by White’s early queen sortie.
The day started with a “crash course” in Center Game opening theory by the author himself. After that, a 3+2 blitz tournament was held in which everyone played two games, one with white and one with black, against the same opponent. As the book was for sale175
My guest in this week’s episode of the New In Chess Podcast is Peter Heine Nielsen. Peter is an international grandmaster and a five-time Danish champion, but he is primarily known for his highly successful coaching career.
From 2007 till 2023, Peter Heine Nielsen was the coach of the reigning World Champion. First he worked for Vishy Anand and next for Magnus Carlsen. In that capacity, he was a winning coach in a World Championship match a record eight times.After his match victory against Ian Nepomniachtchi, in Dubai in 2021, Magnus Carlsen decided that he would no longer defend his world title, but the Norwegian maintained the number one spot in the world rankings and continued to rely on Peter Heine Nielsen as his main coach.
It will not be easy to find someone with more world championship experience than Peter Heine Nielsen and that’s why I invited him to talk about the upcoming World Championship match between Ding Liren and Gukesh that will soon start in Singapore.The first game175
Viktor Moskalenko is one of the leading chess instructors of our time. Among the books he wrote for New In Chess are Revolutionize Your Chess, Training with Moska, and numerous inspiring opening manuals such as The Fully-Fledged French, The Wonderful Winawer and The Fabulous Budapest Gambit.
Moskalenko’s latest book is Think Like Ivanchuk, a training manual based on the games of Vasyl Ivanchuk, one of the strongest players in history not to become World Champion. The incredible talent and chess strength of Ivanchuk is on show all through the book as Moskalenko investigates ‘Chuky’s’ direct encounters with the world champions and his most brilliant contemporaries. The author argues that ‘for the period of the early 1990s to the near-present, the strongest chess player in the world was Vasyl Ivanchuk – if he was in good shape! A bold statement that is hard to argue with if you look at Ivanchuk’s many wins against the leading players in the period described.
Viktor Moskalenko was Ukrainian175
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. Subject of this week’s episode is Dutch grandmaster Max Euwe (1901-1981). This is the second part of Sosonko’s series on Euwe; Part 1 was covered in our October 19 episode.
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.
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On https://www.youtube.com/@PowerPlayChess, Grandmaster Daniel King shares his expertise and passion for chess.
He recently interviewed one of our authors - Ben Johnon - and talked extensively about his latest book, Perpetual Chess Improvement.
The complete interview, which is over an hour long, is a must-watch for all adult improvers. In the shorter clip, Daniel and Ben discuss topics like motivation, accepting risks and calculation. They will also be looking at some interesting positions.
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