Christmas treat: Anand lecture, part 1 of 2
We still have some unpublished footage of the Euwe 75 years World Champion memorial day in Amsterdam last week. World Champion Vishy Anand showed some of his games, and some positions which were related to games of Euwe. Today we publish the first part of this lecture. Enjoy!On Wednesday, December 15th, 2010 it was 75 years ago that Max Euwe became World Chess Champion. Therefore the Max Euwe Centrum in organized activities on Saturday, December 18th, which took place on the Max Euwe Square, in the heart of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The activities included a lecture and a simul by the current World Champion, Viswanathan Anand from India. This video shows the first half of this lecture, in which Anand shows his game with Magnus Carlsen from this year's London Chess Classic. More info (and photos, and another video) here.[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"261","attributes":{"class":"media-image","typeof":"foaf:Image","height":"349","width":"580","style":""}}]]
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