This week our GM trainer Boris Alterman is going to finish the Dragon theme
with his a last lesson on the subject of the "Yugoslav Attack".
This comes with the moves 1. e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3
g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3 Nc6 8.Qd2 0-0.
9.Bc4. This is the major line in the Yugoslav Attack and
the well known weapon of Bobby Fischer, which is without doubt the most serious
attempt to maintain the initiative in the Sicilian Dragon. Alterman will show
some wonderful games, as a fitting conclusion to the lectures about the Dragon
variation."
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.
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
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Here are the world-wide starting times for Alterman's lectures.
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