| Aagaard & Shaw: current events in chess
07.12.2004 On the Wednesday evening lecture live on Playchess.com in our Glasgow Chess Radio, IMs Jacob Aagaard & John Shaw will again discuss current events in chess. This includes the events at the recently completed US Championship 2005.
Glasgow 3rd floor Chess Radio
From a home studio in Glasgow, International Masters Jacob Aagaard and John
Shaw will comment on recent and past chess events in a weekly Radio Show on
the Chessbase server, starting Wednesday the 17th of November at 20:30 server
time (20.30 CET, 7.30 pm GMT, 14.30 US East Coast time).
On this week's show (8th of December) IM Aagaard and IM Shaw will again
discuss current events in chess. The main focus of this show will be the 2005
(!) American Championship, but with their usual scrutiny they will keep their
eyes on all current event and games. All games will have been played within
the last ten days, and the show there tries to present the best Chess from
the last week.
IM Jacob Aagaard is one of the best known chess writers.
His personal favourites among his own works are Excelling at Chess Calculation
and Excelling at Technical Chess, both published by Everyman Chess, as well
as Experts vs. the Sicilian by Quality Chess Europe and Attacking Chess 1&2
(CDs) by Chessbase. Jacob has in 2004 made three
GM norms and hopes to gain the necessary 50 Elo points for the GM title in
2005.
IM John Shaw has written two books for Everyman Chess and
co-edited Experts vs. the Sicilian. He has represented Scotland on many occasions,
recently in the Olympiad in Calvià, where he obtained his second GM-norm. As
John has once had 2500 in Elo, it is his hope that he will complete his Grandmaster
title in 2005 with a third GM-norm.
Together with Jacob, John constitutes two thirds of the new chess publisher
Quality Chess Europe which has
published Experts vs. the Sicilian by ten different authors and Learn
from the Legends – Chess Champions at their Best by Romanian GM
Mihail Marin.
The Radio
ChessBase lectures by Aagaard and Shaw begin every Wednesday at 20:30h
CEST (European Central time = server time, which translates to 19:30h
GMT, 2:30 p.m. New York, 04:30 a.m. Sydney (on Thursday). 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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