This Sunday's lecture is on the Danish Gambit 1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3.c3 dxc3 4.
Bc4 cxb2 5. Bxb2. Tomorrow, Monday, GM Alterman will hold his weekly simultaneous
exhibition. For a price of 20 Ducats you can play against the former advisor
to Garry Kasparov. That translates to a little over two dollars – quite
reasonable for the opportunity to play a strong grandmaster.
GM Boris Alterman's Radio
ChessBase lectures begin at 21:00h CEST (European Central time =
server time, which translates to 17:00h GMT, 3:00 p.m. New York, 05:00
a.m. Sydney (on Monday). Other time zones can be found at the bottom
of the page. You can use Fritz or any Fritz-compatible
program (Shredder, Junior, Tiger, Hiarcs) to follow the lectures, or
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GM
Boris Alterman is 34, and lives in Israel. He was born in Kharkov,
Ukraine, where he started playing chess at the age of 7. His career highlights
include earning the IM title in 1991 and the GM title in 1992.He is the winner
of the following Open and GM tournaments: Haifa 1993; Bad Homburg 1996; Rishon
LeZion 1996; Beijing 1995 and 1997; Munchen 1992. His hobbies include computers
and swimming, his favourite food is Chinese, he speaks fluent Russian, Hebrew
and English.
Boris has worked for and against Garry Kasparov. In 1999 he assisted the world
champion in his spectacular Microsoft match Kasparov vs The World, and was
also part of the team that built up the web portal Kasparov Chess. In 2003,
on the other hand, he was part of the Deep Junior team that gave Kasparov a
run for his money in the New
York match.
Boris Alterman will hold his lectures on Sundays at 21:00h Server time (in the "Training and Teaching" room)
and a simultaneous exhibition on Mondays at 21:00h server time (in the "Simultaneous
Exhibitions" room).
Here are the world-wide starting times for Alterman's lectures.
The simuls are at the same times one day later.