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38th Chess Olympiad, Dresden, Germany - November 13-25

In addition to our popular Game of the Day Grand Master coverage of the Olympiad, and podcasts by Mig Greengard (ChessNinja.com), ICC now has a Chess.FM blog! Anyone can read it, but ONLY ICC members can login to leave comments, and we plan to have additional members-only features in the future.

Latest breaking news from Dresden on the blog (https://webcast.chessclub.com/blog/2008/11/18/its-on-kamsky-topalov-sofia-february/) includes an exclusive scoop by ICC Chess.FM's Macauley Peterson on the on-off-on-off-??? Topalov-Kamsky match! It's on! Kamsky, Sofia, February by Macauley Peterson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at the Legal Moves page.

Recent posts feature audio & video from GMs Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Fabiano Caruana (Italy), IM David Smerdon (Australia), Alejandro Ramírez Álvarez (Costa Rica), Baadur Jobava (Georgia), Wang Hao and Hou Yifan (China), and Georg Meier (Germany).

So why not join ICC today and get all the best Olympiad action right here, right now!

"ICC now has a Chess.FM blog! ICC members can login to leave comments, and we'll soon have nifty members-only features. So login today!"

Live coverage:

9:00am	EST	Nov	21,	2008
6:00am	PST	Nov	21,	2008
7:00am	MST	Nov	21,	2008
8:00am	CST	Nov	21,	2008
9:00am	EST	Nov	21,	2008
14:00	GMT	Nov	21,	2008
15:00	CET	Nov	21,	2008

9:00am EST Nov 21, 2008

Game of the Day (1st Video - Free to all, All Videos - ONLY FREE TO MEMBERS)

Chess Olympiad Dresden 2008
Date		Round	Player Names	ECO	Commentator	GOTD	Podcast (audio & video)
	Thursday, November 13	1	GM Vallejo Pons GM Michael Prusikin	A25 English	Larry Christiansen
	Friday, November 14	2	GM Lubomir Ftacnik GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	A04 Modern Defence	Larry Christiansen
	Saturday, November 15	3	GM Loek Van Wely GM Teimour Radjabov	E97 King's Indian	Joel Benjamin
	Sunday, November 16	4	GM Judit Polgar GM Andrei Istratescu	C43 Petrov	Joel Benjamin
	Monday, November 17	5	GM Francisco Vallejo Pons GM Sergei Azarov	B76 Sicilian	Larry Christiansen
	Wednesday, November 19	6	-	-	Joel Benjamin
	Thursday, November 20	7	-	-	Larry Christiansen
	Friday, November 21	8	-	-	Ronen Har-Zvi
	Saturday, November 22	9	-	-	Joel Benjamin
	Sunday, November 23	10	-	-	Ronen Har-Zvi
	Tuesday, November 25	11	-	-	Joel Benjamin

Anand: One On One

After his World Championship win, Vishy Anand sat down with Macauley Peterson to review the match and answer ICC member questions. He discusses his training, team of seconds, opening preparation, view of the match format, and plans for the future, among other topics. [Running time: 19 minutes]

Regular ICC Events

ICC Newsletter XLVI

November 14, 2008

In this issue: 38th Chess Olympiad, Dresden, Germany - November 13-25, Anand: One On One, Iturrizaga Wins Corus Satellite Qualifier!, Chess.FM videos, and the ICC Store.

All events are free to ICC members unless noted. All times are Eastern Standard Time. Add 5 hours for GMT. Add 6 hours for CET.

Friday, November 21
	00:45	Tournament Sleepless - 3 tournaments, 5 rounds of 3 0
	07:00	Tournament Early Morning - 7 rounds of 3 1
	10:00	Tournament Cronos Challenge - 8 rounds of 1 0
	11:30	Tournament WeekDay Series - 5 rounds of 5 0
	13:00	Tournament WeekDay Series - 5 rounds of 5 0
	13:00	Special SimulMaster! with a FIDE titled player
	14:15	Tournament Daily Standard - 4 rounds of 30 0
	15:00	Webcast GM Benjamin "Game of the Week" GOTW
	17:00	Tournament Zhouse League - 6 rds 1 0, 2x6 rds 3 0
	20:00	Tournament Unrated blitz - 7 rounds of 5 0
	23:00	Tournament Nightly U1500 - 5 rounds of 2 6
	23:00	Tournament Nightly O1500 - 7 rounds of 5 0

View this week's entire event list

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