Alterman on the Danish Gambit
5/2/2004 – "Do not forget that it is the spirit of the player with the initiative that fulfills this promise, or does not," writes our Playchess trainer GM Boris Alterman. "Opening with an attacking gambit system
and then playing cowardly moves is a sure recipe for disaster." More...
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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 download a free trial client. |
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.
| Abu Dhabi | Sun 23:00 | Halifax * | Sun 16:00 | New Orleans * | Sun 14:00 | ||
| Addis Ababa | Sun 22:00 | Hanoi | Mon 02:00 | New York * | Sun 15:00 | ||
| Adelaide | Mon 04:30 | Harare | Sun 21:00 | Odesa * | Sun 22:00 | ||
| Aden | Sun 22:00 | Havana * | Sun 15:00 | Oslo * | Sun 21:00 | ||
| Aklavik * | Sun 13:00 | Helsinki * | Sun 22:00 | Ottawa * | Sun 15:00 | ||
| Algiers | Sun 20:00 | Hong Kong | Mon 03:00 | Paris * | Sun 21:00 | ||
| Amman * | Sun 22:00 | Honolulu | Sun 09:00 | Perth | Mon 03:00 | ||
| Amsterdam * | Sun 21:00 | Houston * | Sun 14:00 | Philadelphia * | Sun 15:00 | ||
| Anadyr * | Mon 08:00 | Indianapolis | Sun 14:00 | Phoenix | Sun 12:00 | ||
| Anchorage * | Sun 11:00 | Islamabad | Mon 00:00 | Prague * | Sun 21:00 | ||
| Ankara * | Sun 22:00 | Istanbul * | Sun 22:00 | Rangoon | Mon 01:30 | ||
| Antananarivo | Sun 22:00 | Jakarta | Mon 02:00 | Reykjavik | Sun 19:00 | ||
| Asuncion | Sun 15:00 | Jerusalem * | Sun 22:00 | Rio de Janeiro | Sun 16:00 | ||
| Athens * | Sun 22:00 | Johannesburg | Sun 21:00 | Riyadh | Sun 22:00 | ||
| Atlanta * | Sun 15:00 | Kabul | Sun 23:30 | Rome * | Sun 21:00 | ||
| Baghdad * | Sun 23:00 | Kamchatka * | Mon 08:00 | San Francisco * | Sun 12:00 | ||
| Bangkok | Mon 02:00 | Karachi | Mon 00:00 | San Juan | Sun 15:00 | ||
| Barcelona * | Sun 21:00 | Kathmandu | Mon 00:45 | San Salvador | Sun 13:00 | ||
| Beijing | Mon 03:00 | Khartoum | Sun 22:00 | Santiago | Sun 15:00 | ||
| Beirut * | Sun 22:00 | Kingston | Sun 14:00 | Santo Domingo | Sun 15:00 | ||
| Belgrade * | Sun 21:00 | Kiritimati | Mon 09:00 | Sao Paulo | Sun 16:00 | ||
| Berlin * | Sun 21:00 | Kolkata | Mon 00:30 | Seattle * | Sun 12:00 | ||
| Bogota | Sun 14:00 | Kuala Lumpur | Mon 03:00 | Seoul | Mon 04:00 | ||
| Boston * | Sun 15:00 | Kuwait City | Sun 22:00 | Shanghai | Mon 03:00 | ||
| Brasilia | Sun 16:00 | Kyiv * | Sun 22:00 | Singapore | Mon 03:00 | ||
| Brisbane | Mon 05:00 | La Paz | Sun 15:00 | Sofia * | Sun 22:00 | ||
| Brussels * | Sun 21:00 | Lagos | Sun 20:00 | St. John's * | Sun 16:30 | ||
| Bucharest * | Sun 22:00 | Lahore | Mon 00:00 | St. Paul * | Sun 14:00 | ||
| Budapest * | Sun 21:00 | Lima | Sun 14:00 | Stockholm * | Sun 21:00 | ||
| Buenos Aires | Sun 16:00 | Lisbon * | Sun 20:00 | Suva | Mon 07:00 | ||
| Cairo | Sun 21:00 | London * | Sun 20:00 | Sydney | Mon 05:00 | ||
| Canberra | Mon 05:00 | Los Angeles * | Sun 12:00 | Taipei | Mon 03:00 | ||
| Cape Town | Sun 21:00 | Madrid * | Sun 21:00 | Tallinn * | Sun 22:00 | ||
| Caracas | Sun 15:00 | Managua | Sun 13:00 | Tashkent | Mon 00:00 | ||
| Casablanca | Sun 19:00 | Manila | Mon 03:00 | Tegucigalpa | Sun 13:00 | ||
| Chatham Island | Mon 07:45 | Melbourne | Mon 05:00 | Tehran * | Sun 23:30 | ||
| Chicago * | Sun 14:00 | Mexico City * | Sun 14:00 | Tokyo | Mon 04:00 | ||
| Copenhagen * | Sun 21:00 | Minneapolis * | Sun 14:00 | Toronto * | Sun 15:00 | ||
| Darwin | Mon 04:30 | Minsk * | Sun 22:00 | Vancouver * | Sun 12:00 | ||
| Denver * | Sun 13:00 | Montevideo | Sun 16:00 | Vienna * | Sun 21:00 | ||
| Detroit * | Sun 15:00 | Montgomery * | Sun 14:00 | Vladivostok * | Mon 06:00 | ||
| Dhaka | Mon 01:00 | Montreal * | Sun 15:00 | Warsaw * | Sun 21:00 | ||
| Dublin * | Sun 20:00 | Moscow * | Sun 23:00 | Washington DC * | Sun 15:00 | ||
| Edmonton * | Sun 13:00 | Mumbai | Mon 00:30 | Wellington | Mon 07:00 | ||
| Frankfurt * | Sun 21:00 | Nairobi | Sun 22:00 | Winnipeg * | Sun 14:00 | ||
| Geneva * | Sun 21:00 | Nassau * | Sun 15:00 | Zagreb * | Sun 21:00 | ||
| Guatemala | Sun 13:00 | New Delhi | Mon 00:30 | Zürich * | Sun 21:00 |
