Diary of an ICC Addict: New In Chess 2008/4
"I'll let you in on a secret", writes English GM Danny Gormally in New In Chess 2008#4.
Diary of an ICC Addict is a brilliant but disturbing piece on serotonin cascades in the pre-frontal lobe.
Further in this issue, among much more:
-- Hans Ree on the life of Savielly Tartakover
-- on the spot reports from Sofia, Havana, Dagomys, Baku, Plovdiv, Prague and Malm?ɬ?
-- Jonathan Rowson on the beauty of chess
-- exclusive annotations by Morozevich, Topalov, Mamedyarov, Radjabov, Ivanchuk, Shirov, Grischuk, and many others
-- Jan Timman on opening surprises (!)
-- Tiger Hillarp Persson on Arthur Rubinstein and lobbyism.
The full contents you can find here.
Peter Doggers joined a chess club a month before turning 15 and still plays for it. He used to be an active tournament player and holds two IM norms. Peter has a Master of Arts degree in Dutch Language & Literature. He briefly worked at New in Chess, then as a Dutch teacher and then in a project for improving safety and security in Amsterdam schools. Between 2007 and 2013 Peter was running ChessVibes, a major source for chess news and videos acquired by Chess.com in October 2013. As our Director News & Events, Peter writes many of our news reports. In the summer of 2022, The Guardian’s Leonard Barden described him as “widely regarded as the world’s best chess journalist.”
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