Dennis Monokroussos writes:
It's
well known that Albert Einstein was a friend of former world chess champion
(and mathematician) Emanuel Lasker. It's also known that Einstein could play
chess, though he reportedly disliked the competitive aspect. That said, he was
a great player, even though he never really pursued the game.
The physics world's gain was our loss; as you'll see tonight, his abilities were remarkable. Just tune in tonight at 9 p.m. ET (that's 3 a.m. Thursday morning, CEST) and see for yourself! The show is free; all you have to do is log on to the Playchess.com server, go to the Broadcasts room, look under the Games tab for Einstein, double-click, sit back and enjoy. (It takes longer to read the directions than to follow them.)
There's a wonderful family named Stein,
There's Ep, there's Gert, and there's Ein.
Ep's statues are crazy,
Gert's poems are hazy,
And nobody understands Ein.
Anonymous
limerick
Dennis Monokroussos' Radio ChessBase lectures begin on Wednesdays at 9 p.m. EST, which translates to 02:00h GMT, 03:00 Paris/Berlin, 13:00h Sydney (on Thursday). Other time zones can be found at the bottom of this page. You can use Fritz or any Fritz-compatible program (Shredder, Junior, Tiger, Hiarcs) to follow the lectures, or download a free trial client. |
You can find the exact times for different locations in the world at World Time and Date. Exact times for most larger cities are here. And you can watch older lectures by Dennis Monokroussos offline in the Chess Media System room of Playchess:
Enter the above archive room and click on "Games" to see the lectures. The lectures, which can go for an hour or more, will cost you between one and two ducats. That is the equivalent of 10-20 Euro cents (14-28 US cents).
 Monokroussos in Mexico: World Championship 2007 |
Dennis Monokroussos is 41, lives in South Bend, IN, where he teaches chess and occasionally works as an adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and Indiana University-South Bend.
At one time he was one of the strongest juniors in the U.S. and has reached a peak rating of 2434 USCF, but several long breaks from tournament play have made him rusty. He is now resuming tournament chess in earnest, hoping to reach new heights.
Dennis has been working as a chess teacher for ten 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.
