Master Class Vol.11: Vladimir Kramnik
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
In a sign of the times, the new administration of FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich announced an agreement with market research firm Nielsen in April to survey the global chess community. After months of preparation the survey is now available.
The comprehensive 60-question survey should take about 10-20 minutes to complete, but in addition to helping shape the agenda of the international chess federation, participants will also have the option of entering a raffle for one of ten spots in a two-hour "masterclass" with the former world champion Vladimir Kramnik.
The survey runs the gamut of chess subjects and should provide a wealth of data to interpret. Questions aim to tease out how often people spend time on chess, why they like it, how useful it is. There are questions about respondents online chess habits, the general perception of chess and FIDE. Where and why people watch and how they spend their chess budget, are also areas of interest.
Sliders on this question will have to questioning how you spend your chess time
On this DVD Vladimir Kramnik retraces his career from talented schoolboy to World Champion in 2006. With humour and charm he describes his first successes, what it meant to be part of the Russian Gold Medal team at the Olympiad, and how he undertook the Herculean task of beating his former mentor and teacher Garry Kasparov.
When the survey plan was initially announced in early April, it provoked an interesting discussion kicked off by another famous Nielsen, Magnus Carlsen's lead trainer GM Peter Heine Nielsen, who sceptically noted:
The Danish Chess federation did that 10-15 years ago, and got the encouraging answer that more than 100,000 played regularly online. So they made their own server, which cost like 300.000 Euro but only got us 10-50 new members.
That occasion when you’re not sure which Nielsen to trust ;-)
— Sotiris Logothetis (@middlewavemw) April 1, 2019
FIDE's new marketing and communications guru, David Llada, sought to allay those fears yesterday on the eve of the survey's release into the wild:
Recently one of our partners wrote this in an email to us, and I subscribe every word. Of course mine is just a small voice in this organisation, but I think we are all in the same line. Plus, some of us have real-world experience doing business: we have realistic goals :-) pic.twitter.com/MGnrX2oMLq
— David Llada ♞ (@davidllada) July 11, 2019
Incidentally, ChessBase has an over nine-hour video series about Kramnik on our FritzTrainer Master Class label.
Master Class Vol.11: Vladimir Kramnik
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
