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Welcome to the ChessCafe.com Video Spotlight. Each Wednesday and Saturday we will feature a chess related video for your entertainment.

Today's videos cover the incident during the Radjabov-Smeets game in the Corus Grandmaster Group A, in which both players were in serious time trouble approaching their fortieth move. In a winning position Radjabov played 39.Re7, but knocked over a bishop and pressed the clock without restoring the bishop’s proper position. Smeets, without making a move, presses the clock in turn because the bishop is still toppled over. Radjabov presses the clock back immediately, but his flag had fallen. Radjabov then protested because Smeets spoke to him about the fallen piece. To read Geurt Gijssen's take on the matter, see An Arbiter's Notebook.

Radjabov-Smeets

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• ECC 2008 Interview with Michael Adams
• Chess Fever
• Korchnoi Defeated by Cow
• Press Conference: Radjabov-Cheparinov
• Interview with Magnus Carlsen
• Tribute to IM Bob Wade
• Donaldson on Dresden
• Anand Returns to Hero's Welcome
• Bologan - Bacrot, World Rapid Cup
• Karpov - Kasparov, Seville (23), 1987
• Interview with Pavel Tregubov
• World Chess Boxing Championships
• Chess 960 Rapid World Championship
• Denker vs. Fine
• Interview with Alex Dunne
• Frost Interviews Kasparov
• Interview with Vlastimil Hort
• Underwater Chess
• Bobby Fischer Documentary, Part One
• Bobby Fischer Documentary, Part Two
• Bobby Fischer Documentary, Part Three
• Bobby Fischer Documentary, Part Four
• Bobby Fischer Documentary, Part Five
• Bruce Pandolfini on Chess Now
• Taimanov Plays Rachmaninoff
• The Lucena Position
• Skripchenko - Kosteniuk, Golden Blitz
• Seirawan on Bronstein
• Press Conference: Linares 2008
• Kamsky - Topalov, Game 4
• Conquest - Arkell, Playoff Game 2
• Maurice Ashley on Chess
• Linares Impressions, Round Nine
• Interview with Teimour Radjabov
• Topalov - Kramnik, Corus 2008, Part One
• Topalov - Kramnik, Corus 2008, Part Two
• Viktor Korchnoi, My Life for Chess
• Seirawan Chess
• The Philidor Position
• Anatoly Karpov
• Bashing the Sicilian
• Sam Loyd Chess Puzzle
• Garry Kasparov: World Editors Forum

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