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March 3, 2007
I Want My GM MTV
US Grandmaster Varuzhan Akobian will be appearing on the hit MTV program "The True Life," airing March 8. I believe it's at 9pm PST, but check your local listings. The episode is titled "I Am a Genius," following their "I am a..." naming format. Speaking of Varuzhan, I'm on with him today on ICC Chess.FM while Joel Benjamin calls an exorcist to fix his internet.
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It would be nice if a video of this program found it's way onto YouTube for the benefit of those of us not in the US. :)
Posted by: SonOfPearl at March 3, 2007 10:31MTV usually gets its broadcast abroad, but this program may not..
Posted by: george at March 3, 2007 11:48"I am a..." "...guy who roughed up Daniel Gormally after he hassled Levon Aronian!" I don't suppose GM Akobian will go into that, though.
Posted by: Ernest Tomlinson at March 3, 2007 13:00I want my MTV!
Posted by: chesstraveler at March 3, 2007 14:17Wait, was it Akobian or Akopian who got into the Aronian dance-skuffle?
Posted by: r at March 3, 2007 17:26Didn't see anything here about this - know the moderator has been busy, thought I'd post a link to the NYT page - Kasparov led a big anti-government demonstration in St. Petersburg:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/world/europe/04russia.html?hp
Looks like Garry barely avoided arrest.
Posted by: eponymous_coward at March 3, 2007 19:26The message is don't mess with Putin's "Democracy." It's fine, just like in the old days.
Posted by: chesstraveler at March 3, 2007 19:37Good to see chess getting some coverage, though in all candor when I think of Akobian my mind wanders to that beautiful game in last year's US championships where he got pasted by Emory Tate. Man, was that an inspiration.
Posted by: DimKnight at March 3, 2007 19:59Joel's computer is possessed by the devil?!
Posted by: Matt Helfst at March 3, 2007 21:13Kasparov said Capablanca only was calculating two moves. Any GM here to comment this? I think Garry is right, nevertheless an intersiting topic.
Posted by: freitag at March 3, 2007 21:14Two leaders of what is left of Russia’s liberal opposition, Garry Kasparov, the former chess grandmaster, and Mikhail A. Kasyanov, a former prime minister, spoke to the crowd.
The former chess grandmaster? Depressing that the American "paper of record" can't even get that right.
Posted by: Evening Wolf at March 4, 2007 05:22
