8/3/2014 – ChessBase is covering the Olympiad with a big daily report, and with special GM analysis of selected games. We also bring you live coverage during the games, and ChessBase TV broadcasts from Tromsø, where we have set up a studio. Our main anchor is GM Daniel King, who interviews players, analyses games and provides a unique two-minute midnight wrap-up.
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Olympiad in Tromsø – where and how to watch it
Before we start we bring you a summary of round one by our main commentator
Daniel King, directly from the Olympiad in Tromsø. The video was recorded
in the midnight sun – well, the midnight dusk, since we are now past
the solstice and the period of the year when the sun doesn't set at all.
The reason is that Tromsø lies withing the Arctic Circle, one of
the major circles of latitude, running 66.56° north of the Equator. It marks
the southern extremity of the "polar day", which is when the sun is visible
for 24 hours (usually referred to as the "midnight sun") at least once per
year, and polar night, when the sun does not appear above the horizon for
24 hours. The midnight sun can be seen in summer for many days, weeks or
months, depending on how far north of the arctic circle a place is located.
The Arctic Circle [Graphic by Swinburne
University]
The places where people can see the midnight sun are Alaska, northern Canada,
Greenland, Iceland, northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and some extremities
of Russia. At Finland's northernmost point, the sun does not set for 73
days during summer.
Now to the two-minute summary by our main commentator GM Daniel King:
Olympiad Tromsø 2014 - Round 1 Report. Daniel will be providing
these short summaries after each round, and they will be added to our main
report shortly after midnight local time – which is nicely placed
in the evening in the US and early morning of the next day in the Far East.
On the next morning you can expect to see Daniel's Play of the Day embedded
in the report. Here it is for round one:
During the games we have live broadcast on Playchess
by expert commentators, with post-game interviews and analysis directly
from the venue. Here is what the live audio commentary during the games
looks like.
As the players emerge from the main hall we invite them to our Playchess
studio to conduct interviews with them. Two notable interviews on Saturday
were with former World Championship Challenger Peter Leko and with Indian
star Parimarjan Negi.
Top Hungarian GM Peter Leko being interviews
by André Schulz of the ChessBase team
Parimarjan Negi, rated 2645, on board one for
India
Pari, who is studying in California, analyses
his game with Daniel King
Danny analyses with the US team trainer Wesley
So, who also studies in the US
Interviewing GM Harika Dronavalli, 2521, board
one of the Indian women's team
You can have it in Spanish as well: above Leontxo
Garcia interviews Anna Madnadze...
... who is a Georgian WGM living in Barcelona
and fluent in Spanish
Our photographer and Internet expert Pascal
Simon (left) and GM Viktor Bologan wait
for the head of the ChessBase technical department to set up the Playchess
broadcast
Where and how to watch: log into Playchess.com and watch all the games
in progress. Analyse with the built-in engine, chat with other spectators.
And if you are a premium member you can watch all the lectures, interviews
and analysis free of charge. And it isn't at all expensive. Prices
for a full year's membership are given in the table below.
Playchess.com
is Europe’s largest chess server, as well as being the official server
of the German Chess Federation. More than 4,000 players are logged on every
evening and you can play, chat, watch grandmaster games or take part in
free chess training with friends from anywhere in the world. There is even
a special room for beginners and hobby players where you can play games
without a clock.
Full
information on the games, the venue, the atmosphere and what's
happening on and off the chessboard – 68 pages in PDF, 45 MB in
size.
All
practical details you need to know before and after your
arrival, including information about money, the climate, arriving at Oslo
and Tromsø Airports, lost or delayed luggage, check-in at the hotels,
the accreditation desk, information offices and the opening ceremony.
Frederic FriedelEditor-in-Chief emeritus of the ChessBase News page. Studied Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Hamburg and Oxford, graduating with a thesis on speech act theory and moral language. He started a university career but switched to science journalism, producing documentaries for German TV. In 1986 he co-founded ChessBase.
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