Glasgow 3rd Floor Chess Radio
Glasgow 3rd Floor Chess Radio Everything Except Dortmund. ChessBase Television
is providing daily coverage from Dortmund. Now ChessBase Radio will complete
the job by reviewing every other recent chess tournament in the world. IMs
Jacob Aagaard and John Shaw will cover all the best incidents and accidents
from the last two weeks. (There was no show last week because Jacob was struggling
to a disappointing 8/9 in the Scottish Championship.)
Glasgow 3rd Floor Chess Radio will start on Wednesday at 20.30 Central European
Time (that's 7.30 in the evening if you're British).
The Radio
ChessBase lectures by Aagaard and Shaw begin every Wednesday at
20:30h CEST (European Central time = server time, which translates
to 19:30h GMT, 2:30 p.m. New York, 04:30 a.m. Sydney (on Thursday).
You can use Fritz or any Fritz-compatible program (Shredder, Junior,
Tiger, Hiarcs) to follow the lectures, or download a free
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Glasgow 3rd floor Chess Radio
From a home studio in Glasgow, International Master Jacob Aagaard and IM John
Shaw will comment on recent and past chess events in a weekly Radio Show on
the ChessBase server. The show runs on Wednesdays at 20:30 server time (20.30h
CET, 18.30h GMT, 13.30 US East Coast time).
IM Jacob Aagaard is one of the best known chess writers.
His personal favourites among his own works are Excelling at Chess Calculation
and Excelling at Technical Chess, both published by Everyman Chess,
as well as Experts vs. the Sicilian by Quality Chess Europe and Attacking
Chess 1&2 (CDs) by ChessbBse. Jacob has in 2004 made three GM norms and
hopes to gain the necessary 50 Elo points for the GM title in 2005.
IM John Shaw has written two books for Everyman Chess and
co-edited Experts vs. the Sicilian. He has represented Scotland on
many occasions, recently in the Olympiad in Calvià, where he obtained his second
GM-norm. As John has once had 2500 in Elo, it is his hope that he will complete
his Grandmaster title in 2005 with a third GM-norm.
Together with Jacob, John constitutes two thirds of the new chess publisher
Quality Chess Europe which has
published Experts vs. the Sicilian (Not a good, but a very good book
with many interesting suggestions – Nigel Short and Learn from the Legends
– Chess Champions at their Best by Romanian GM Mihail Marin, of which
Jonathan Rowson wrote the following in New in Chess 1/2005. "It must be a strong
candidate for any existing book of the year award, and if it doesn't win any,
someone should create a new award so that the book's quality is properly acknowledged."
On recent training DVDs IM Jacob Aagaard uses our new Chess Media System to
teach the most important principles of positional play. His DVD lectures deal
with weak squares, good and bad pieces, prophylaxis, pawn weaknesses, and much,
much more. They are concepts which belong in the toolbox of every chess player.
The lectures are followed by exercises, in which you have to look for solutions
yourself. There are hours of high class video training on each DVD. Price:
€ 29.99.
