5/10/2023 – After Sagar Shah, founder and driving force behind Chessbase India, spoke to former World Champion Vishy Anand about the dramatic World Championship match between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren, Sagar also interviewed former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik on the same subject. As a supporter of "Team Nepo" Kramnik was directly involved in the World Championship match. In the interview, Kramnik talked about his work with Nepomniachtchi, the critical moments of the match, opening preparation, nervousness in World Championship matches and much more.
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Timestamps
0:00 - Introduction 0:46 - Hello and welcome! 1:33 - Kramnik in Team Nepomniachtchi 2:23 - Kramnik's predictions on the match and Ding's style 4:52 - Why were there so many decisive games? 6:22 - What went wrong with Nepomniachtchi? 10:16 - What was 4. h3? | Ding vs Nepo game 2 12:12 - Nepo's brilliant h4-h5 and Re2 | Nepo vs Ding game 5 14:46 - Kramnik on Ding Liren's second, Richard Rapport 16:35 - French Defense in a WC Match | Nepo vs Ding game 7 18:56 - Ding's cannonball preparation | Ding vs Nepo game 8 19:50 - Impressive opening prep | Ding vs Nepo game 10 21:38 - The colle system on the board | Ding vs Nepo game 12 26:45 - The final classical encounter | Ding vs Nepo game 14 28:45 - The tiebreaks were amazing! 29:29 - Ding's courageous ...Rg6 | Nepo vs Ding, tiebreaks game 4 32:13 - Ding Liren in the press conferences 34:42 - Ian's tweet after the match 38:25 - Thoughts on the Magnus Carlsen situation 41:33 - The differences between Magnus' WC matches and the WC 2023 46:32 - What causes nervousness in a WC Match? 50:46 - Kramnik on the tradition of World Championship matches 58:27 - Indian Youngsters moving up the ranks 1:04:23 - Kramnik's latest project - a mobile app called "Chess Legends"! 1:09:49 - Future events coming up for Kramnik 1:11:01 - Thank you and Goodbye!
This DVD allows you to learn from the example of one of the best players in the history of chess and from the explanations of the authors (Pelletier, Marin, Müller and Reeh) how to successfully organise your games strategically, consequently how to keep y
Sagar ShahSagar is an International Master from India with two GM norms. He loves to cover chess tournaments, as that helps him understand and improve at the game he loves so much. He is the co-founder and CEO of ChessBase India, the biggest chess news portal in the country. His YouTube channel has over a million subscribers, and to date close to a billion views. ChessBase India is the sole distributor of ChessBase products in India and seven adjoining countries, where the software is available at a 60% discount. compared to International prices.
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