Our own GM Varuzhan Akobian will be on MTV True Life. The episode is “I’m a Genius”. http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/truelife/series.jhtml
Its going to be about his life and his chess accomplishments and they even came with him to his recent tournament at the Morelia open.
It is a very famous show with about 30 million viewers. It will be aired on March 8 at 8 pm pacific time and will be reaired many time.
Be sure to check it out and support our own GM Akobian! Kudos to MTV for doing this feature! Will GM Akobian do Hollywood next? 🙂
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Felicitations Varush! He is one of the nicest GM’s ever. He even played in our local chess club tournament once and even gave a simul! I met him when he first came to this country and he has always been a class act and a great ambassador to chess. This makes me very happy and proud of our local GM!
As far as I can tell, MTV Canada no longer airs “True Life”
Then you just have to defect to the US 🙂
How unusual to see a nice wooden board that has the letter-digit coordinates.
Usually the coordinates are considered a bit crass for a nice board.
But should they be considered crass?
That looks like one of those DGT type boards that keep score, send moves to display monitors etc. so its natural there would be notation coordinates.
–Duncan
This must be a joke. That show doesn’t have 30 million viewers.