Boo! Terrifying blunders at Playchess.com
01.11.2004 Tonight's Playchess lecture by Dennis Monokroussos covers some scary blunders. You can learn from their mistakes or just feel comforted that they make them too. The lecture begins at 9pm EST. Read on for how you can watch the lecture and the starting time in your area. Don't be afraid!
So bad it's scary
In honor of Halloween, it’s time to see something that’s scary…but
in a way comforting, too. In short, it’s time to watch strong players
blunder! We’ll take a look at opening catastrophes, middlegame oversights,
time trouble horrors – the whole gamut of grandmasterly goofs. We all
know it, of course, but it’s nice to be reminded every now and then that
even the world’s best players are human, just like us…sometimes
more so. See you Monday night!
Schedule
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Dennis Monokroussos' lectures begin
on Mondays at 9 p.m. EST, which translates to 02:00h London/GMT, 03:00
Paris/Berlin, 13:00h Sydney (on Tuesday).
Other time zones can be found at the bottom of the
page. You can use Fritz or any Fritz-compatible program (Shredder,
Junior, Tiger, Hiarcs) to follow the lectures, or download a free
trial client.
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Dennis
Monokroussos is 38, lives in South Bend, IN (the site of the University
of Notre Dame), and is writing a Ph.D. dissertation in philosophy (in the philosophy
of mind) while adjuncting at the University.
He is fairly inactive as a player right now, spending most of his non-philosophy
time being a husband and teaching chess. At one time he was one of the strongest
juniors in the U.S., but quit for about eight years starting in his early 20s.
His highest rating was 2434 USCF, but he has now fallen to the low-mid 2300s
– "too much blitz, too little tournament chess", he says.
Dennis has been working as a chess teacher for seven years now, giving lessons
to adults and kids both in person and on the internet, worked for a number
of years for New York’s Chess In The Schools program, where he was
one of the coaches of the 1997-8 US K-8 championship team from the Bronx, and
was very active in working with many of CITS’s most talented juniors.
When Dennis Monokroussos presents a game, there are usually two main areas
of focus: the opening-to-middlegame transition and the key moments of the middlegame
(or endgame, when applicable). With respect to the latter, he attempts to present
some serious analysis culled from his best sources (both text and database),
which he has checked with his own efforts and then double-checked with his chess
software.
Here are the international starting times
for Dennis's lectures every Monday
| Abu Dhabi | Tue 6:00 AM | | | Halifax | Mon 10:00 PM | | | New Orleans | Mon 8:00 PM |
Addis Ababa | Tue 5:00 AM | Hanoi | Tue 9:00 AM | New York | Mon 9:00 PM |
Adelaide * | Tue 12:30 PM | Harare | Tue 4:00 AM | Odesa | Tue 4:00 AM |
Aden | Tue 5:00 AM | Havana * | Mon 10:00 PM | Oslo | Tue 3:00 AM |
Aklavik | Mon 7:00 PM | Helsinki | Tue 4:00 AM | Ottawa | Mon 9:00 PM |
Algiers | Tue 3:00 AM | Hong Kong | Tue 10:00 AM | Paris | Tue 3:00 AM |
Amman | Tue 4:00 AM | Honolulu | Mon 4:00 PM | Perth | Tue 10:00 AM |
Amsterdam | Tue 3:00 AM | Houston | Mon 8:00 PM | Philadelphia | Mon 9:00 PM |
Anadyr | Tue 2:00 PM | Indianapolis | Mon 9:00 PM | Phoenix | Mon 7:00 PM |
Anchorage | Mon 5:00 PM | Islamabad | Tue 7:00 AM | Prague | Tue 3:00 AM |
Ankara | Tue 4:00 AM | Istanbul | Tue 4:00 AM | Reykjavik | Tue 2:00 AM |
Antananarivo | Tue 5:00 AM | Jakarta | Tue 9:00 AM | Rio de Janeiro | Mon 11:00 PM |
Asuncion * | Mon 11:00 PM | Jerusalem | Tue 4:00 AM | Riyadh | Tue 5:00 AM |
Athens | Tue 4:00 AM | Johannesburg | Tue 4:00 AM | Rome | Tue 3:00 AM |
Atlanta | Mon 9:00 PM | Kabul | Tue 6:30 AM | San Francisco | Mon 6:00 PM |
Baghdad | Tue 5:00 AM | Kamchatka | Tue 2:00 PM | San Juan | Mon 10:00 PM |
Bangkok | Tue 9:00 AM | Karachi | Tue 7:00 AM | San Salvador | Mon 8:00 PM |
Barcelona | Tue 3:00 AM | Kathmandu | Tue 7:45 AM | Santiago * | Mon 11:00 PM |
Beijing | Tue 10:00 AM | Khartoum | Tue 5:00 AM | Santo Domingo | Mon 10:00 PM |
Beirut | Tue 4:00 AM | Kingston | Mon 9:00 PM | Sao Paulo | Mon 11:00 PM |
Belgrade | Tue 3:00 AM | Kiritimati | Tue 4:00 PM | Seattle | Mon 6:00 PM |
Berlin | Tue 3:00 AM | Kolkata | Tue 7:30 AM | Seoul | Tue 11:00 AM |
Bogota | Mon 9:00 PM | Kuala Lumpur | Tue 10:00 AM | Shanghai | Tue 10:00 AM |
Boston | Mon 9:00 PM | Kuwait City | Tue 5:00 AM | Singapore | Tue 10:00 AM |
Brasilia | Mon 11:00 PM | Kyiv | Tue 4:00 AM | Sofia | Tue 4:00 AM |
Brisbane | Tue Noon | La Paz | Mon 10:00 PM | St. John's | Mon 10:30 PM |
Brussels | Tue 3:00 AM | Lagos | Tue 3:00 AM | St. Paul | Mon 8:00 PM |
Bucharest | Tue 4:00 AM | Lahore | Tue 7:00 AM | Stockholm | Tue 3:00 AM |
Budapest | Tue 3:00 AM | Lima | Mon 9:00 PM | Suva | Tue 2:00 PM |
Buenos Aires | Mon 11:00 PM | Lisbon | Tue 2:00 AM | Sydney * | Tue 1:00 PM |
Cairo | Tue 4:00 AM | London | Tue 2:00 AM | Taipei | Tue 10:00 AM |
Canberra * | Tue 1:00 PM | Los Angeles | Mon 6:00 PM | Tallinn | Tue 4:00 AM |
Cape Town | Tue 4:00 AM | Madrid | Tue 3:00 AM | Tashkent | Tue 7:00 AM |
Caracas | Mon 10:00 PM | Managua | Mon 8:00 PM | Tegucigalpa | Mon 8:00 PM |
Casablanca | Tue 2:00 AM | Manila | Tue 10:00 AM | Tehran | Tue 5:30 AM |
Chatham Island * | Tue 3:45 PM | Melbourne * | Tue 1:00 PM | Tokyo | Tue 11:00 AM |
Chicago | Mon 8:00 PM | Mexico City | Mon 8:00 PM | Toronto | Mon 9:00 PM |
Copenhagen | Tue 3:00 AM | Minneapolis | Mon 8:00 PM | Vancouver | Mon 6:00 PM |
Darwin | Tue 11:30 AM | Minsk | Tue 4:00 AM | Vienna | Tue 3:00 AM |
Denver | Mon 7:00 PM | Montevideo * | Tue Midnight | Vladivostok | Tue Noon |
Detroit | Mon 9:00 PM | Montgomery | Mon 8:00 PM | Warsaw | Tue 3:00 AM |
Dhaka | Tue 8:00 AM | Montreal | Mon 9:00 PM | Washington DC | Mon 9:00 PM |
Dublin | Tue 2:00 AM | Moscow | Tue 5:00 AM | Wellington * | Tue 3:00 PM |
Edmonton | Mon 7:00 PM | Mumbai | Tue 7:30 AM | Winnipeg | Mon 8:00 PM |
Frankfurt | Tue 3:00 AM | Nairobi | Tue 5:00 AM | Yangon | Tue 8:30 AM |
Geneva | Tue 3:00 AM | Nassau | Mon 9:00 PM | Zagreb | Tue 3:00 AM |
Guatemala | Mon 8:00 PM | New Delhi | Tue 7:30 AM | Zürich | Tue 3:00 AM |
* indicates that the place is currently observing daylight saving time (DST)
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