This week’s episode of the New In Chess Podcast features the second part of a narration from “The Essential Sosonko”, a collection of chess portraits and stories authored by chess grandmaster Genna Sosonko. The subject of this week’s episode is Ukrainian grandmaster Efim Geller.
Efim Petrovich Geller (1925-1988) was a two-time Soviet chess champion and a six-time Candidate for the World Chess Championship. During the twenty-year period in which he was recognized as being a world top ten player, he faced ten different world champions, scoring victories against eight of them and even coming out with a positive overall score (+39-36=131). A natural attacking player who became more well-rounded as his career progressed, Geller was also known as an opening expert, contributing significantly to the emergence of the King's Indian Defence in top-level play. He was active as a coach, aiding future world champions Boris Spassky and Anatoly Karpov in their respective world championship match preparations175
In modern times, many games end up in phases in which there is little time on the clock to make quick decisions. Not infrequently, these are endgames in which a winning position must be converted into a win, or a bad/lost position can sometimes still be kept as a draw. For many tournament foxes, the study of endgames is not high on their wish list, but in doing so, they regularly do themselves wrong.
It is sometimes said that pawn endgames are the basis of every other endgame. Because almost always the opportunity arises to convert one endgame into another, and of course that can end up in a pawn endgame. Then you have to assess the evaluation of that remaining endgame. In addition to the necessary basic knowledge, a certain insight is needed to evaluate a pawn endgame properly. And if a player is in a winning position, he also needs to find during the game sometimes the only line (occasionally even the only move!) that will give him victory in which every choice listens very closely. It175
This week’s episode of the New In Chess Podcast features a narration from “The Essential Sosonko”, a collection of chess portraits and stories authored by chess grandmaster Genna Sosonko. The subject of this week’s episode is Latvian grandmaster Mikhail Tal.
This week's narration, which is the final part of a six-part series, examines the final phase of Tal's life. As his physical ailments mounted, Tal never "slowed down" his hedonistic lifestyle. Money was tight in his final years, but he never stopped relying on chess for his income, ultimately living off simuls and exhibitions. However, this did not diminish the legendary, near-mythical status that he achieved during his heyday.
Narrated by professional voice actor Nick Murphy, this week’s episode about Mikhail Tal is different from the two-part “My Misha” series from May of last year. Instead of an active participant, Genna is more of a background figure this time. However, this does not make his retelling of Tal’s stories any less175
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