Chess of the Grandmasters

Chess Grand Master is a former German television show. The program was designed by Claus Spahn, editorially supervised and moderated.

History

It aired from 1983 to 2005 once a year on television in the West German Radio (WDR). The concept of the program was that two chess grandmasters were playing a game of chess against each other and this is commented by the two grandmasters Helmut Pfleger and Vlastimil Hort, and later by the chess program Fritz and was analyzed. The winner received the prize of the WDR television chess and could in fact defend this title against a new challenger.

The invited players included, among other things, Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Viswanathan Anand, Péter Lékó and Jan Timman. The first batch in 1983 denied Anatoly Karpov and then the strongest German player Robert Hübner. In the last event of 2005, the two commentators nurses and Hort even met each other.

In 1995, Kasparov won in two games against the chess program Genius 3 with 1.5-0.5. Since he had recently lost at a rapid chess tournament in London against this program, this competition was a greater attention in the media given.

Game examples

Among the notable games of the series included the victory, the then four -year-old Judit Polgár against the experienced German Grandmaster Rainer Knaak 1990 and the defeat Huebner against Kasparov in 1992 in only 15 moves.

Judit Polgár - Rainer Knaak, Chess Grand Master in 1990

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3 6.bxc3 Se7 ( The Winawer Variation of the French Defense, ECO code C18) 7.Qg4 Qc7 8.Bd3 cxd4 9.Se2 dxe5 10.Lf4 Df6 11.Lg5 De5 12.cxd4 h5 13.Dh4 14.Lf4 Qc7 16.g4 Qa5 15.Ld2 Qd8 e5 19.f3 Be6 17.dxe5 Lxg4 18.Tg1 Qd7 20.Sd4 SBC6 21.Sxc6 Sxc6 22 Txg7 Qc7 23.f4 Sxe5 24.fxe5 dxe5 25.Kf2 Dxg7 26.Tg1 Db2 27.Lb4 f6 28.Te1 0-0-0 29.Txe6 Kb8 30.Dxf6 Da2 31.Dd4 Rc8 32.Ld2 Ka8 33.Le3 TXC2 34.Lxc2 Dxc2 35.Ke1 b1 36.Kd2 Da2 37.Kd1 Db1 38.Ke2 Dc2 39.Ld2 Rf8 40.Dxd5 1-0

Fixtures and results

In tables below nachspielbare games are listed (Java Sript ).

TV Chess Price:

More shows:

References / games

  • The 25 parts of the television Chess price and the 6 parts of the consignment from the WDR at Tele Chess ( for download)

Weblinks / reports

  • Chess Grand Master '97: Vladimir Kramnik - Judit Polgar, August 31, 1997 in Cologne
  • WDR: Chess Grand Master '98 - Vladimir Kramnik - Michael Adams, August 16, 1998
  • WDR: Chess Grand Master '99 - Artur Yusupov - Jörg Hickl, August 15, 1999
  • Interview with Claus Spahn 12 July 2001 on the occasion of the presentation of the German Chess Prize 2001
  • "Chess Grand Master " on WDR television on August 12, 2001 in Cologne
  • For the last show of the chess grandmaster on 24 August 2005
  • Chess tournament
  • TV Program ( Germany )
  • West German Broadcasting (television)
  • Sports broadcast (television)
  • Chess ( Germany )
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