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He will perform as a featured soloist at the annual "Canterbury Christmas" Dec. 4 at the Civic Center.

Akiba Rubinstein was one of Polands greatest chess players. Svitlana is showing us two of his incredible games. In the first game, Rubinstein achieved a small tempo advantage with the Black pieces, and quickly unleashes a beautiful, tactical combination to crush his opponent. Furthermore, in the second game, his endgame skills shine, and we can learn a lot about pawn endgames in general.

In the 1980s Vasyl "Chucky" Ivanchuk became one of the world's top 100 players and he will probably remain one for another ten years, or longer. Svitlana shows us how the Ukrainian GM plays the Sicilian - in two wonderful games we see how Ivanchuk defeats Kasparov and Vallejo Pons with White, and then we see how he plays the Sicilian with Black to smash Anand.

The world champion Svitlana is talking about today, is one of the world's best chess players, since the late 80s. The five-time world chess champion has played some gorgeous games, and we will take a look at two of them. Anand beat Aronian with the Black pieces in 2013, and it is one of Svitlana's favourite games used for teaching. The second game is from 1997 against Joel Lautier, and Anand managed to trap the opponent's bishop for the whole game, without ever having the need to capture it.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Literary and Performing Arts will stage a fall musical production of "The Threepenny Opera" by Bertolt Brecht (with music by Kurt Weill), 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the University Theatre, Center for Performing Arts, UALR, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock.