1/8/2025 – Arne Kähler and Johannes Fischer start 2025 with a review of 2024. They recall the highlights of the past year, talk about the Chess Olympiad, various world championships, Freestyle Chess, the future number 1, the successes of India and consider who the male (Carlsen, Gukesh or Erigaisi) and female (Tan Zhongyi, Ju Wenjun, Divya Deshmukh or Humpy Koneru) players of the year are. And they ask which games were particularly impressive in 2024.
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Two Knights Talk
Time Stamps
0:00 - Intro 1:10 - It started with the Candidates Tournament 2024 2:45 - The Freestyle Chess Championship 4:42 - The Chess Olympiad in Budapest 6:42 - "Best of Chess Olympiad Interviews" Clips 11:16 - Why is the Olympiad such a special event? 15:38 - The World Chess Championship 16:13 - Who is the male and female player of the year? 20:21 - India's rise to number 1 in world chess! 23:55 - Women's chess fell below the radar a bit 25:04 - The worst chess incident in 2024? 27:00 - The greatest chess moment in 2024? 32:10 - The most beautiful chess game in 2024? 33:28 - The most surprising chess game in 2024? 37:50 - The three best-selling Fritztrainers in 2024? 41:12 - The two best chess books in 2024? 46:00 - Predictions for 2025!
Searching for the Game of the Year 2024
In his Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft covers chess events throughout the year, presenting interesting, original and instructive games week after week. At the turn of the year, he selected six games that particularly impressed him in 2024. Here they are:
This video course provides a comprehensive and practical White repertoire in the Ruy Lopez! Through instructive model games and in-depth theoretical explanations, you will learn how to confidently handle both main lines and sidelines.
Chess Festival Prague 2025 with analyses by Aravindh, Giri, Gurel, Navara and others. ‘Special’: 27 highly entertaining miniatures. Opening videos by Werle, King and Ris. 10 opening articles with new repertoire ideas and much more.
Experts examine the games of Max Euwe. Let them show you which openings Euwe chose to play, where his strength in middlegames were, which tactical abilities he had or how he outplayed his opponents in the endgame.
This interactive video course of over 8 hours, provides an in-depth exploration of the Pirc Defence, a favoured opening for people looking to play for the win with the black pieces.
The course is designed to provide a deep yet practical repertoire for Black, balancing solid foundations with aggressive counterplay.
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