Dennis Monokroussos writes: "This Thursday, Tigran Petrosian, the
9th World Chess Champion, would have been 75. In Armenia, his home country,
a match between those with a connection to Armenia or Petrosian against a Rest
of the World team is taking place to commemorate the occasion, and we’ll
use this week’s show to commemorate it in our own way. In particular,
we’ll look at his distinctive way of meeting the King’s Indian
Defense and some of its most notable successes over the years (its victims
include Fischer and Kasparov!). So please join us tonight, especially if you
would like to add a new anti-King’s Indian weapon to your repertoire,
as well as to take a look at one of the great geniuses of positional chess
of all time."
Dennis
Monokroussos is 37, lives in South Bend, IN (the site of the University
of Notre Dame), and is writing a Ph.D. dissertation in philosophy (in the philosophy
of mind) while adjuncting at the University.
He is fairly inactive as a player right now, spending most of his non-philosophy
time being a husband and teaching chess. At one time he was one of the strongest
juniors in the U.S., but quit for about eight years starting in his early 20s.
His highest rating was 2434 USCF, but he has now fallen to the low-mid 2300s
– "too much blitz, too little tournament chess", he says.
Dennis has been working as a chess teacher for seven years now, giving lessons
to adults and kids both in person and on the internet, worked for a number
of years for New York’s Chess In The Schools program, where he was
one of the coaches of the 1997-8 US K-8 championship team from the Bronx, and
was very active in working with many of CITS’s most talented juniors.
When Dennis Monokroussos presents a game, there are usually two main areas
of focus: the opening-to-middlegame transition and the key moments of the middlegame
(or endgame, when applicable). With respect to the latter, he attempts to present
some serious analysis culled from his best sources (both text and database),
which he has checked with his own efforts and then double-checked with his
chess software.
Dennis Monokroussos' Radio
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