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ICC Chess.FM is covering the World Championship match and the U.S. Championship, with the "dream team" working double shift.
The World Championship Match, after the first two games, has seen the two contestants still in a phase of study, with two interesting but rather short draws, a Grunfeld and a QGD semi-Slav. ICC asked its members to vote on who will be the new World Chess Championship, and Anand is  the favorite so far, with 71.3% of the votes.  But we all know that the Israeli "underdog" GM will fight tooth and nail, and the next games promise to be enthralling. Check below for the Chess.FM schedule. GM Alex Yermolinsky is providing analysis of all the games in the "Game Of the Day" daily video, which include the TRIVIA question, to win a 1-year subscription to the best chess magazine out there: New in Chess!

The U.S. Championship is half-way through, with GM Hikaru Nakamura imposing his superior class. In round 5 he defeated GM Gregory Kaidanov, that until then shared the lead with Hikaru. Had Gregory been able to draw Hikaru, he could have really had a shot at the US Championship Title, after his great win over Gata Kamsky in round 4.  Now, who will be able to stop CapilanoBridge? ICC Chess.FM will be on the air to comment on the games every day, and there will be TRIVIA! to win membership extensions. We are also providing the GOTD service for the U.S. Championship. If you can't be online when the games are played, don't miss your chance to watch GM Yermo's analysis of the best game of the day.

And that is not all! ICC is relaying games from the interesting Sigeman & Co 2012 Tournament. One Top 10 (Fabiano Caruana) and strong players such as Peter Leko, Anish Giri, Emanuel Berg, are playing this interesting tournament, being held in Malmo, Sweden. Caruana, after 3 rounds, is on the lead, with a convincing 2.5/3. The iron-man of modern chess keeps playing and playing, and all of us hope he won't land to the Tal Memorial in June  with a tiredness that could influence his results.

Game of the Day

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Tue., 8th US Championship: Round 1 Yermolinsky CLICK HEREFREE PREVIEW  
Wed., 9th US Championship: Round 2 Yermolinsky CLICK HEREFREE PREVIEW CLICK HEREMember-Only
Thu., 10th US Championship: Round 3 Yermolinsky CLICK HEREFREE PREVIEW CLICK HEREMember-Only
Fri., 11th WC match: Round 1 Yermolinsky CLICK HEREFREE PREVIEW CLICK HEREMember-Only
Fri., 11th US Championship: Round 4 Yermolinsky CLICK HEREFREE PREVIEW CLICK HEREMember-Only
Sat., 12th WC match: Round 2 Yermolinsky CLICK HEREFREE PREVIEW CLICK HEREMember-Only
Sat., 12th US Championship: Round 5 Yermolinsky CLICK HEREFREE PREVIEW CLICK HEREMember-Only
Sun., 13th US Championship: Round 6 Yermolinsky CLICK HEREFREE PREVIEW CLICK HEREMember-Only
Mon., 14th WC match: Round 3 Yermolinsky CLICK HEREFREE PREVIEW CLICK HEREMember-Only
Tue., 15th WC match: Round 4 Yermolinsky CLICK HEREFREE PREVIEW CLICK HEREMember-Only
Tue., 15th US Championship: Round 7 Yermolinsky CLICK HEREFREE PREVIEW CLICK HEREMember-Only
Wed., 16th US Championship: Round 8 Yermolinsky CLICK HEREFREE PREVIEW CLICK HEREMember-Only
Thu., 17th WC match: Round 5 Yermolinsky CLICK HEREFREE PREVIEW CLICK HEREMember-Only
 
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Thu., 17th 2:00 PM US Championship: Round 9 Ronen Yermo
Fri., 18th 7:00 AM WC match: Round 6 LarryC Speelman
Fri., 18th 2:00 PM US Championship: Round 10 Ronen Yermo
Sat., 19th 2:00 PM US Championship: Round 11 Ronen Yermo
Sun., 20th 7:00 AM WC match: Round 7 Suat Atalik Jon Ludvig
Sun., 20th 2:00 PM US Championship: Playoff
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Mon., 21st 7:00 AM WC match: Round 8 Ben Finegold Benjamin
Wed., 23rd 7:00 AM WC match: Round 9 Ben Finegold Var Akobian
Thu., 24th 7:00 AM WC match: Round 10 Smerdon Yermo
Sturday 26th 7:00 AM WC match: Round 11 Ronen Var Akobian
Mon., 28th 7:00 AM WC match: Round 12 Benjamin Smerdon
Wed., 30th 7:00 AM WC match: Tie-break
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Chess.FM Spotlight

   NM Dan Heisman's "Improve Your Chess IV" May 19, 2012 

 

National Master Dan Heisman is a name that is synonymous with excellence in chess coaching and teaching. Dan authors the award-winning Novice Nook column (winner of three Chess Journalists of America "Best Instruction" awards), aimed at improving adults, for chesscafe.com that are clearly written and offer very practical advice and tips on how to improve your game. More info about Dan can be found here.

In the new Improve Your Chess IV series, Dan provides instruction by reviewing amateur games played on ICC and showing where the players went wrong and how to improve.

 
Last Show20 Minute Exercise #3
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   May 2012 May 1 - 31 

 

May  2012

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
    1 2 3 4 5
   
Indian systems: Introduction
GM Larry Christiansen
Model Games: The Samish Nimzo-Indian #2
GM Boris Alterman
Rook on the 7th Rank #6
GM Joel Benjamin
IM Liu Qingnan - GM Nigel Short
CM Dan Heisman
Tabiyas 12: The Trappy Cambridge Springs Defense
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
GM Boris Alterman
The Rook: the best defender your money can buy - Part 1
GM Ronen Har-Zvi
Openings from the World Championship Matches - Part 3

Indian systems: Introduction #2
GM Larry Christiansen
Model Games: The Samish Nimzo-Indian #3
GM Boris Alterman
Opposite Side Castling Attack
GM Joel Benjamin
IM G. Petar Arnaudov - GM Ivan Cheparinov
CM Dan Heisman
King and Pawn vs. King and Pawn
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
GM Boris Alterman
The Rook: the best defender your money can buy - Part 2
GM Ronen Har-Zvi
Openings from the World Championship Matches - Part 4

Indian systems: Introduction #3
GM Larry Christiansen
Model Games: Leningrad Nimzo-Indian
GM Boris Alterman
Opposite Side Castling Attack #2
GM Joel Benjamin
GM Vassily Ivanchuk vs. GM Leinier Dominguez Perez
CM Dan Heisman
20 Minute Exercise #3

 



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