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Speed Chess
Superblitz Knockout Championship
Qualifying Stage (DVD)

Four of the hottest grandmasters in the United States battle for supremacy in a fast paced and exciting competition. Legendary attacking player Larry Christiansen, strategic genius Joel Benjamin, daring tactician Alexander Shabalov, and the young phenom Hikaru Nakamura test their will, speed and determination in a deadly race against the clock.

With dynamic and instructive commentary by world class chess announcer GM Maurice Ashley, get inside the minds of the GM's as games full of drama and tension unfold before your eyes. With only ten minutes on the clock, anything can happen!

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Finally Somebody Gets it Right!

Host/Commentator: GM Maurice Ashley
Generation Chess, 2005
Running Time: 1 hr. 40 minutes

Finally Somebody Gets it Right!

The Bottom Line

"All I can tell you is that I thoroughly enjoyed watching this DVD (and I even invited a few of my chess buddies to come over and watch it as well). It is professionally done and is one of the few chess DVDs that is definitely worth the money. Not only is it highly entertaining, but you may even learn a few things as well."

"In match one, fearless attacker GM Larry Christiansen takes on strategic virtuoso GM Joel Benjamin. In match two, young prodigy GM Hikaru Nakamura (the current US Champion) takes on the always dangerous GM Alexander Shabalov...the very first game between Benjamin and Christiansen features a blistering attack that is simply an awesome sight to behold. And just when it looks like the defending side has things covered, blamo!, the attacker comes back with yet another shot. Although I hate cliché’s, this one game alone really is worth the price of the entire DVD.

The second match features Nakamura against Shabalov, and surprisingly one of them commits a horrific blunder and hangs a rook! Suffice it to say that the match ends in a tie and they go to what Ashley calls the “Armageddon tiebreak” where one of them prevails.

I should mention that the technical features of the DVD are quite good. The picture is clear and you can follow all the action quite easily (although I would have liked to see the clock times super-imposed on the screen, rather than cutaways to the DGT clock every now and then). At the beginning of the game, the camera starts out on the players and then cuts away to a two dimensional DGT electronic brown and white chess board (think Fritz) so you can easily follow the action. And, of course, all the while GM Ashley is commentating in his inimitable and enthusiastic style. At the end of each match he does a brief interview with both the winner and the loser." - from the review by Michael Jeffreys

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