Photo courtesy of Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam
Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam is a Dutch chess journalist, organizer and commentator who is best known as the Editor-in-Chief of New In Chess magazine. New in Chess Magazine has been the industry leading chess magazine for decades and is known for its on-the-scenes reporting of major events, its high-level Grandmaster analysis of games, and insightful interviews and book reviews. In conjunction with his work for New in Chess, Dirk Jan has travelled the world and shared conversations and meals with many of the games most revered figures. In our conversation, Dirk shared several of the amazing stories he has collected over the years, and also discussed how New in Chess is being affected by the pandemic and the chess boom. Please read on for more details and the timestamps.
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0:00- How have the pandemic and the online chess boom affected New in Chess, which as the preeminent chess print magazine often devotes lots of pages to elite OTB chess tournaments?
GM Alireza Firouzja, GM Wesley So, Magnus Carlsen interview with GM Jonathan Tisdall here: https://new.uschess.org/news/were-trying-grow-chess-interview-magnus-carlsen
14:00- What did Dirk Jan learn from interviewing the young phenom, GM Alireza Firouzja?
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17:00- What was it like for Dirk Jan to spend a day with legendary GM Miguel Najdorf?
Mentioned: The Day that Kasparov Quit, Finding Bobby Fischer, GM Viswanathan Anand
23:00- Dirk Jan shares his experiences spending time with the author of Zurich 1953 GM David Bronstein
Mentioned: The Rise and Fall of David Bronstein by GM Genna Sosonko, Zurich 1953
29:00- Dirk shares a few Korchnoi and Botvinnik stories!
Mentioned: GM Ljubomir Ljubojević, GM Vassily Smyslov, GM Mikhail Botvinnik, GM Hein Donner, GM Max Euwe, GM Tony Miles, GM Alexei Shirov
38:00- A Patreon supporter of the podcast requested that Dirk share some stories about GM Vasyl Ivanchuk.
Mentioned: GM Garry Kasparov, Haruki Murakami
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47:00- On the day that GM Vladimir Kramnik defeated GM Garry Kasparov for the World Championship in 2000, Dirk spoke to both the winner and the loser of the match. What is the story behind that?
Mentioned: GM Jan Timman
57:00- What was it like to spend time with Danish great, GM Bent Larsen?
Mentioned: GM Nigel Short
1:02:00- Thanks so much to Dirk Jan for sharing some amazing stories.
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