How I became World Champion Vol.1 1973-1985
Garry Kasparov's rise to the top was meteoric and at his very first attempt he managed to become World Champion, the youngest of all time. In over six hours of video, he gives a first hand account of crucial events from recent chess history, you can improve your chess understanding and enjoy explanations and comments from a unique and outstanding personality on and off the chess board.
Five matches will be held in Chess960 (a.k.a. Fischer Random Chess), where the starting position will be drawn at random from 960 possibilities. The prize fund is USD $250,000.
Games are played with a "delay" — if the players make their moves within the delay time, no time is deducted from their clock. If they exceed the delay, the clock begins counting down.
| Player | URS™ Rating | Player | URS™ Rating | |
| 2734 | vs | Veselin Topalov | 2722 | |
| Hikaru Nakamura | 2812 | vs | 2758 | |
| Wesley So | 2794 | vs | 2763 | |
| 2695 | vs | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 2796 | |
| Levon Aronian | 2794 | vs | 2754 |
Master Class Vol.7: Garry Kasparov
On this DVD a team of experts gets to the bottom of Kasparov's play. In over 8 hours of video running time the authors Rogozenko, Marin, Reeh and Müller cast light on four important aspects of Kasparov's play: opening, strategy, tactics and endgame.
Commentary by GM Yasser Seirawan, GM Maurice Ashley and WGM Jennifer Shahade
Opening package: 1.b3 and Black Secrets in the Modern Italian
Wesley So published two new opening DVDs: 1.b3, the so called Nimzo-Larsen-Attack, for White and his black secrets in the modern Italian. Get them in a package and save money!
Six rapid chess games will be played with 30 minutes per player and a 10-second delay per move. The rapid games are counted double (two points for a win, one point for a draw). Fourteen blitz games will be played with 5 minutes per player plus 5 seconds delay per move. The blitz matches use traditional scoring.
September 11th
| 19:00 | Drawing of the starting position |
| 20:00 | Rapid game 1 |
| 21:30 | Rapid game 2 |
| 23:00 | Blitz game 1 |
| 23:30 | Blitz game 2 |
September 12th
| 19:00 | Drawing of the starting position |
| 20:00 | Rapid game 3 |
| 21:30 | Rapid game 4 |
| 23:00 | Blitz game 3 |
| 23:30 | Blitz game 4 |
September 13th
| 19:00 | Drawing of the starting position |
| 20:00 | Rapid game 5 |
| 21:30 | Rapid game 6 |
| 23:00 | Blitz game 5 |
| 23:30 | Blitz game 6 |
September 14th
| 19:30 | Drawing of the starting position |
| 20:00 | Blitz game 7 |
| 20:30 | Blitz game 8 |
| 21:00 | Blitz game 9 |
| 21:30 | Blitz game 10 |
| 22:00 | Drawing of the starting position |
| 22:30 | Blitz game 11 |
| 23:00 | Blitz game 12 |
| 23:30 | Blitz game 13 |
| 24.00 | Blitz game 14 |
