Chess Lesson Three of the Sam Sloan TV Show will be broadcast on Monday, June 13, 2005 at 10:00 AM EDT on Time Warner Channel 34 and Cablevision Channel 67 in Brooklyn.
Internet Viewers can see this show by going to http://www.bcat.tv/bcat and clicking on Channel 1.
This lesson is in streaming video so you must be online at this time to see it.
Chess Lesson Three deals with some basic openings such as the Dragon Variation of the Sicilian Defense and some basic endgames. I demonstrate the endgame Carl Wagner vs. Sam Sloan that I was able to force a draw in a king and pawn endgame in spite of being a pawn down. This draw was important because it enabled my team from the University of California at Berkeley to tie for first place in the 1966 US Intercollegiate Championship in State College, Pennsylvania. It was a good result for me too because Carl Wagner was rated 200 points higher than me and I appeared to be losing.
I am showing this particular endgame to demonstrate how a knowledge of basic simple endgames can enable the player to figure out the correct plan in more complex endgames with more pieces and pawns on the board.
Starting in two weeks I expect to have a regularly scheduled weekly Sam Sloan TV Show. Each show will be 28 1/2 minutes. I plan to do one show about Shogi (Japanese Chess), one show about Chinese Chess and one show about Go. I will tape them all in one setting. Probably I need to get a cute Chinese girl to be on the show with me to give my viewers something to look at besides me. Need also to obtain a demonstration board for Shogi, Chinese Chess and Go to make these shows. Does anybody know where I can get one?
Thus far I have made seven shows, two about the Crisis in Afganistan, two about Mario in Japan and three about chess.
The chess shows have been outrageously popular. Lesson Number two is online at http://www.ishipress.com/samchess2.asf. That show has been downloaded more than 800 times since it was posted last week.
Less popular is the Mario Show which is online at http://www.ishipress.com/mario.asf.
The Sam Sloan Show will be starting as a regular weekly show on the week of June 26. Exact dates and times to be announced.
Chess Lesson Two of the Sam Sloan TV Show was broadcast on May 21, 2005 at 11:30 AM EDT on Time Warner Channel 35 and Cablevision Channel 68 in Brooklyn.
I recommend that you download and play the WM Recorder at http://www.wmrecorder.com/ which will enable you so save my chess lessons on disk.
Lesson 2 covers some basic opening traps such as the basic trap in the Albin Counter Gambit and basic rook and pawn endgames such as the Lucena Position. It also demonstrates the infamous Keres-Botvinnik 1948 World Championship Game where Keres dumped the game to insure that Botvinnik and not Reshevsky would be World Chess Champion.
Air time for Lesson three is not available yet.
These lessons are in streaming video so you must be online at those times to see it.
The title of this episode is "Chess: Basic Openings and Basic Endgames".
Suggestions for future shows are welcome.
I need to thank Gary Popkin for providing both the inspiration and the technical expertise for this show.
Gary is the Executive Producer of http://www.geocities.com/HardfireTV/ "Hardfire", the Libertarian Alternative TV Show which can be seen at http://www.bcat.tv/bcat Channel 2 on Mondays at 10:30 PM EST.
Sam Sloan
The Sam Sloan TV Show will be broadcast on April 13, 2005 at 1:00 PM and again at 9:00 PM EST Daylight Savings Time. To see this show, go to http://www.bcat.tv/bcat and Click on Channel 3. It can also be seen on CableTV in Brooklyn only on Channel 56 Time Warner and Cablevision Channel 69.
The title of this episode is Brooklyn Boy Makes Good in Japan, Part II. In Part II, Mario leaves aside his wartime exploits and turns to the humanitarian public services he performed by deflowering 61 Japanese virgins.
The Sam Sloan Show will return as a regular weekly series starting in the week of June 26. The show will feature chess, Afghanistan, Japan, and Libertarian Politics.
The Chess Shows will start of with basic endgames and basic openings. These will be the most basic moves which everybody thinks they know but almost nobody does. For example, do you think you know how to mate with king and queen against king? Do you know how many moves it will take? Can you do it with only 20 seconds left on your clock?
I need to thank Gary Popkin for providing both the inspiration and the technical expertise for this show.
Gary is the Executive Producer of "Hardfire", the Libertarian Alternative TV Show which can be seen at http://www.bcat.tv/bcat Channel 2 on Mondays at 10:30 PM EST.
Sam Sloan