Chess: The Full English Breakfast

French cheating, open letter feuds, Carlsen in New York, Cappelle la Grande, and the best team names from the World Amateur Team Championships. With special guest Malcolm Pein, plus a Kiss parody band's ode to bughouse and blitz. Don't  miss this one!

Wijk aan Zee coverage continues with Anish Giri, Wesley So, Luke McShane, David Navara and Adriana Krzymowska from Chess TV.

Exclusive audio from Wijk aan Zee, with Hikaru Nakamura, and Levon Aronian. Analysis of Nakamura's triumph by the seaside, Magnus Carlsen's "Wii" habits, plus Levon Aronian on life as an international Grandmaster. Subscribe to get Part 2 automatically when it's published.

The London Chess Classic, Magnus and company, 2800s galore, Gashimov wins Reggio Emilia, previewing Tata (NEE Corus), plus, trouble with the law redux, and we give away our first prize.

Jam packed with coverage of Levon Aronian's ascent to 2800, the Tal Memorial and World Blitz Championships, Magnus Carlsen's withdrawal from the World Championship Candidates matches, the U.S. Chess League -- we talk to IM Sam Shankland -- PLUS, chess players in trouble with the law, and setting simultaneous records...in Second Life!

GM Boris Alterman: It was the test of the simul, with 12 players. For me the difficult part was just to control the avatar and to fly from board to board then to adjust board and to focus, then only to move a piece. The simul was around 2.5 hours, when I played around 15-20 moves only. In ICC I would have finished 50 ga...mes [in that time]. However SL wanted me to play another simul in a few months when they are planning to improve all the technology and logistics.

Back by popular demand ("popular" in inverted commas -- at least our mums like it!) it's The Full English Breakfast, with Lawrence Trent and Stephen Gordon. In this episode, Trent & Gordon wax poetic on the Olympiad, FIDE elections, Bilbao, Magnus Carlsen's fashion career, and some dude named Will Taylor. If you like the show, don't forget to subscribe!

From the second pilot episode (original airdate March 25, 2009): F.E.B. #2 - In episode deux, the traveling IMs (NB: Gordon just got his 3rd GM norm, so, GM-elect!) wax poetic on Linares, Mamedyarov’s PR problem, Anand, Amber, blindfold chess, and playing in front of your parents. A Full English Breakfast is part of your nutritious Chess menu.

From the original two-show pilot (original airdate: February 25, 2009): F.E.B. #1 - In the inaugural episode, the pair of inimitable IMs tackle the Aeroflot scandal, Kamsky-Topalov, and Linares. (Running time: 25 minutes)