7/12/2011 – He's a chess expert and a very proficient teacher, trainer, author of over twenty ChessBase training DVDs. On Wednesday IM Andrew Martin will face the Playchess crowd for an exclusive Q&A session. You can send him questions by email and he will try to answer as many as he can manage. The show is free for all premium members. Be there at 21:00h CEST.
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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:
GM Blohberger presents a complete two-part repertoire for Black: practical, clear, and flexible – instead of endless theory, you’ll get straightforward concepts and strategies that are easy to learn and apply.
GM Blohberger presents a complete two-part repertoire for Black: practical, clear, and flexible – instead of endless theory, you’ll get straightforward concepts and strategies that are easy to learn and apply.
GM Blohberger presents a complete two-part repertoire for Black: practical, clear, and flexible – instead of endless theory, you’ll get straightforward concepts and strategies that are easy to learn and apply.
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In this video course, Grandmaster Ivan Sokolov explores the fascinating world of King’s Indian and Pirc structures with colours reversed, often arising from the French or Sicilian.
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