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Dennis Monokroussos writes: This past Saturday would have been the 70th birthday of the great Russian super-GM Lev Polugaevsky. A very decent man by all accounts and several-time Candidate for the world championship, he was renowned for his incredibly deep opening preparation, most dramatically exemplified in the insane variation of the Najdorf that bears his name. In this week’s show, we’ll take a look at and talk about his trials and joys with the Polugaevsky Variation, taking a particularly close look at his game with Yehuda Gruenfeld from the 1979 Interzonal in Riga. I hope you’ll join us as we check out some amazing opening theory, look at a very impressive game, but perhaps even more than that as we “meet” a chessplayer whose love for the game was truly contagious. Enjoy!
Dennis Monokroussos' Radio ChessBase lectures begin on Mondays at 9 p.m. EDT, which translates to 02:00h GMT, 03:00 Paris/Berlin, 13:00h Sydney (on Tuesday). Other time zones can be found at the bottom of this page. You can use Fritz or any Fritz-compatible program (Shredder, Junior, Tiger, Hiarcs) to follow the lectures, or download a free trial client. |
Dennis
Monokroussos is 38, 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.
Here are the exact times for different locations in the world
| Addis Ababa | Tue 05:00 | Hanoi | Tue 09:00 | New York | Mon 21:00 | ||
| Adelaide * | Tue 12:30 | Harare | Tue 04:00 | Odesa | Tue 04:00 | ||
| Aden | Tue 05:00 | Havana | Mon 21:00 | Oslo | Tue 03:00 | ||
| Aklavik | Mon 19:00 | Helsinki | Tue 04:00 | Ottawa | Mon 21:00 | ||
| Algiers | Tue 03:00 | Hong Kong | Tue 10:00 | Paris | Tue 03:00 | ||
| Amman | Tue 04:00 | Honolulu | Mon 16:00 | Perth | Tue 10:00 | ||
| Amsterdam | Tue 03:00 | Houston | Mon 20:00 | Philadelphia | Mon 21:00 | ||
| Anadyr | Tue 14:00 | Indianapolis | Mon 21:00 | Phoenix | Mon 19:00 | ||
| Anchorage | Mon 17:00 | Islamabad | Tue 07:00 | Prague | Tue 03:00 | ||
| Ankara | Tue 04:00 | Istanbul | Tue 04:00 | Rangoon | Tue 08:30 | ||
| Antananarivo | Tue 05:00 | Jakarta | Tue 09:00 | Reykjavik | Tue 02:00 | ||
| Asuncion * | Mon 23:00 | Jerusalem | Tue 04:00 | Rio de Janeiro * | Tue 00:00 | ||
| Athens | Tue 04:00 | Johannesburg | Tue 04:00 | Riyadh | Tue 05:00 | ||
| Atlanta | Mon 21:00 | Kabul | Tue 06:30 | Rome | Tue 03:00 | ||
| Baghdad | Tue 05:00 | Kamchatka | Tue 14:00 | San Francisco | Mon 18:00 | ||
| Bangkok | Tue 09:00 | Karachi | Tue 07:00 | San Juan | Mon 22:00 | ||
| Barcelona | Tue 03:00 | Kathmandu | Tue 07:45 | San Salvador | Mon 20:00 | ||
| Beijing | Tue 10:00 | Khartoum | Tue 05:00 | Santiago * | Mon 23:00 | ||
| Beirut | Tue 04:00 | Kingston | Mon 21:00 | Santo Domingo | Mon 22:00 | ||
| Belgrade | Tue 03:00 | Kiritimati | Tue 16:00 | Sao Paulo * | Tue 00:00 | ||
| Berlin | Tue 03:00 | Kolkata | Tue 07:30 | Seattle | Mon 18:00 | ||
| Bogota | Mon 21:00 | Kuala Lumpur | Tue 10:00 | Seoul | Tue 11:00 | ||
| Boston | Mon 21:00 | Kuwait City | Tue 05:00 | Shanghai | Tue 10:00 | ||
| Brasilia * | Tue 00:00 | Kyiv | Tue 04:00 | Singapore | Tue 10:00 | ||
| Brisbane | Tue 12:00 | La Paz | Mon 22:00 | Sofia | Tue 04:00 | ||
| Brussels | Tue 03:00 | Lagos | Tue 03:00 | St. John's | Mon 22:30 | ||
| Bucharest | Tue 04:00 | Lahore | Tue 07:00 | St. Paul | Mon 20:00 | ||
| Budapest | Tue 03:00 | Lima | Mon 21:00 | Stockholm | Tue 03:00 | ||
| Buenos Aires | Mon 23:00 | Lisbon | Tue 02:00 | Suva | Tue 14:00 | ||
| Cairo | Tue 04:00 | London | Tue 02:00 | Sydney * | Tue 13:00 | ||
| Canberra * | Tue 13:00 | Los Angeles | Mon 18:00 | Taipei | Tue 10:00 | ||
| Cape Town | Tue 04:00 | Madrid | Tue 03:00 | Tallinn | Tue 04:00 | ||
| Caracas | Mon 22:00 | Managua | Mon 20:00 | Tashkent | Tue 07:00 | ||
| Casablanca | Tue 02:00 | Manila | Tue 10:00 | Tegucigalpa | Mon 20:00 | ||
| Chatham Island * | Tue 15:45 | Melbourne * | Tue 13:00 | Tehran | Tue 05:30 | ||
| Chicago | Mon 20:00 | Mexico City | Mon 20:00 | Tokyo | Tue 11:00 | ||
| Copenhagen | Tue 03:00 | Minneapolis | Mon 20:00 | Toronto | Mon 21:00 | ||
| Darwin | Tue 11:30 | Minsk | Tue 04:00 | Vancouver | Mon 18:00 | ||
| Denver | Mon 19:00 | Montevideo | Mon 23:00 | Vienna | Tue 03:00 | ||
| Detroit | Mon 21:00 | Montgomery | Mon 20:00 | Vladivostok | Tue 12:00 | ||
| Dhaka | Tue 08:00 | Montreal | Mon 21:00 | Warsaw | Tue 03:00 | ||
| Dublin | Tue 02:00 | Moscow | Tue 05:00 | Washington DC | Mon 21:00 | ||
| Edmonton | Mon 19:00 | Mumbai | Tue 07:30 | Wellington * | Tue 15:00 | ||
| Frankfurt | Tue 03:00 | Nairobi | Tue 05:00 | Winnipeg | Mon 20:00 | ||
| Geneva | Tue 03:00 | Nassau | Mon 21:00 | Zagreb | Tue 03:00 | ||
| Guatemala | Mon 20:00 | New Delhi | Tue 07:30 | Zürich | Tue 03:00 | ||
| Halifax | Mon 22:00 | New Orleans | Mon 20:00 |
