Glasgow 3rd floor Chess Radio
On this week's show (9th of February) IM Aagaard and IM Shaw will take another
look at the Gibraltar tournament, where John held Alexei Shirov to a draw and
had promising positions against many stronger players. Especially Jacob would
like to know why John lost some of his games the way he did, and why Danny
Gormally did not just take the rook, but instead lost in brilliant style to
Emil Sutovsky, who took the best game prize for that game. The Scottish/Danish
pair will also look at what is going on in the rest of the chess world.
From their home studio in Glasgow, International Masters Jacob Aagaard and
John Shaw comment on recent and past chess events in a weekly Radio Show on
the Chessbase server, starting Wednesday the 17th of November at 20:30 server
time (20.30 CET, 7.30 pm GMT, 14.30 US East Coast time).
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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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 Chessbase. 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 by ten different authors and Learn
from the Legends – Chess Champions at their Best by Romanian GM Mihail
Marin.