Show notes
35 year-old Grandmaster Erwin L’Ami has had quite a varied and interesting chess career thus far. He is one of the top players in the Netherlands, and has competed on every Dutch Olympiad team since 2006. He has had many impressive finishes in individal tournaments, including winning the 2015 Reykjavik Open.When not competing himself, Erwin is a highly respected opening theoretician, who has worked with former FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov and currently works with perennial top 10 player, GM Anish Giri. All of this makes Erwin the perfect person to publish a Lifetime Repertoires course on the Caro-Kann defense for Chessable. In our conversation, we touch all aspects of his chess career. Topics included how he works with engines, the life of a traveling second, the 2020 FIDE Candidates, Anish Giri and Magnus’ Carlsen’s twitter banter, the latest in Caro-Kann theory, improvement advice,and the identity of his favorite player of all time. As you can imagine, there is lots to dig into! Show notes and timestamps can be found below: Mentioned: Leela Chess Zero, Stockfish Open Source Engine, Setting up Engines in Chessbase Video with John Hartmann of US Chess- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_G-tvePe6Q, Jon Edwards, GM Viswanthan Anand Mind Master by GM Viswanthan Anand, The Anand Files by VIshwanathan Anand, Episode 177 with GM Peter Heine Nielsen Mentioned: Daryl Morey interview with GM Hikaru Nakamura- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prI_EEq6XscIM Greg Shahade, GM Magnus Carlsen, FIDE Candidates Tournament 2011 Mentioned: Perpetual Chess Episode 174 with GM Rustam Kasimdzhanov , GM Teimour Radjabov, GM Emil Sutovsky Mentioned: GM Ian Nepomniatchi, Chessable Masters 2020, GM Mikhail Botvinnik Mentioned: IM Anna Rudolf Check out GM Erwin L’Ami’s Free Short and Sweet Caro Course here:https://www.chessable.com/short-sweet-the-caro-kann/course/45388/Check out his comprehensive and impressive, Lifetime Repertoire Caro-course here: https://www.chessable.com/lifetime-repertoires-caro-kann/course/37366/ Mentioned: On the Origin of Good Moves by IM Willy Hendriks, Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, My Great Predecessors, GM Jacob Aagaard, Game Changer by GM Mathew Sadler and WIM Natasha Regan Mentioned: GM Peter Svidler Mentioned: Test of Time by GM Garry Kasparov Mentioned: GM Viswanthan Anand, GM Michael Adams, IM Stuart Rachels’ The Best I Saw in Chess, see Chess24’s coverage of Magnus’ 2014 blunder against Anand, here: https://chess24.com/en/read/news/carlsen-blunders-but-wins-game-6-video-recap Mentioned: GM Max Euwe, GM Jan Timman, IM Alina L’Ami, Jeroen Van Den Berg, organizer of Tata Steel Chess Mentioned: Panov-Botvinnik attack, Shirov variation, Short variation of the Advanced Caro Mentioned: GM Danil Dubov, GM Alireza Firouzja, GM Vladislav Artemiev, GM Jan Gustafsson Get his Caro-Kann Chessable course here:https://www.chessable.com/lifetime-repertoires-caro-kann/course/37366/Follow him on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/erwinlami?lang=en If you would like to help support Perpetual Chess, you can do here:https://www.perpetualchesspod.com/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
