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The starting time for the 'Any Questions' show with Andrew Martin is Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 21:00h CEST – which translates to 23:00h Moscow, 20:00 London, 3:00 p.m. New York, 09:00 a.m. Honolulu and 13:00h in Tegucigalpa. If you do not live in one of these time zones you can find the correct start in this table. The show takes place in the broadcast room of the Playchess server. To submit your questions use this email link.
Andrew David Martin (born 18th May 1957 in West Ham, London) is an English chess player with the title of International Master. He has won various national and international tournaments, and has been playing for years in the Four Nations Chess League. Martin received his IM title in1984 and earned his first grandmaster norm in the British Championship of 1997 in Brighton. Martin was a commentator on the chess world championship between Kasparov and Kramnik in 2000.
On the 21st February 2004 Martin set a new world record for simultaneous chess, facing 321 chess players at the same time. His result was: 294 wins, 26 draws and only one loss. Martin is known as a professional chess teacher and head trainer of the English youth team. He trains eight schools (Yateley Manor, Aldro, Millfield, Sunningdale, Waverley School, St Michael’s Sandhurst, Wellington College, Salesian College). Martin is a chess columnist, an author of chess books and the author of various instructional videos. He was the publisher of the series Trends Publications. Martin lives in Sandhurst, England, is married and the father of two daughters and two sons. His present Elo rating is 2423 (as of July 2009).
Andrew also maintains a dedicated YouTube channel, the Yateley Manor Chess Master, which is refreshed weekly with two wholly original videos on a variety of topics. Requests from subscribers are always considered. The philosophy is pretty simple: to showcase the excellence of chess. The channel is endorsed by Yateley Manor school, who sponsor the national schools championship in the UK and the ECF. Here's a sample lecture:
