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Monday, November 22, 2010

Watching World Chess Blitz Championship

The world blitz championship 2010 was won by Levon Aronian, and for a chess fan – the greatest attraction of this event was the amount of video materials available with the coverage of the games. I’d like to point out three sources that I was following:

  1. The official site, which also includes the coverage of the Tal memorial itself – in Russian, but some post-mortem with Nakamura was in English - http://video.russiachess.org/ – in Russian
  2. Multiple YouTube video channels – bumblebee1607, SergeySorokhtin, EugenePotemkin and probably a few more. Chessbase has posted pgn games next to some of the videos – to make it more convenient to replay:
    1. http://www.chessbase.com/news/2010/games/sorokhtin01.htm
    2. http://www.chessbase.com/news/2010/games/sorokhtin02.htm
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  3. Sergei Shipov’s analysis – on http://www.crestbook.com/ – in Russian. The synchronization suffers a bit, but I like the way Shipov explains the essence of every position within 5 seconds.

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