Gelfand on computers and FIDE
After his win in the FIDE World Cup Gelfand gave a long and fascinating interview to Yury Yakovich at Chesspro.
Nuclear physics on the side
Życie Warszawy (“Warsaw Life”) has an interview with Vladimir Malakhov, who won the 9th Amplico Life rapid tournament with 11.5/13.
Kramnik: “If Topalov becomes champion it will be a disaster for chess”
Kramnik gave a fascinating and controversial interview to Michael Khomich at Sports.ru after winning the Tal Memorial in Moscow.
The unplayed 32…Kf8!! in Carlsen-Kramnik
When Carlsen sensationally beat Kramnik in the first round of the London Classic, many computer-armed viewers noticed a weird move that would apparently have justified Kramnik’s play.
Laznicka, the vengeful forest animal?
My favourite moment of the 2009 World Cup had to be Sergey Shipov revealing on his forum that he had received a remarkable e-mail from Czech GM Victor Laznicka’s mother.
Rauf Mamedov on the Chinese School
Rauf Mamedov lost to a Chinese player in the first round of the World Cup, but was far from singing the praises of Chinese chess.
Aronian’s chess idols
Aronian was asked to name his chess idols by the 1news.az website, and came up with a surprise or two.
Highlights from extratime.az’s World Cup coverage
Eljanov on Ukrainian players wanting to abandon their federation and Shirov’s unusual training methods, Gashimov on “incorrect” Chinese chess, and more: the Azerbaijan site was on hand to report a lot of interesting material from the World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk.
Karjakin on his rivalry with Carlsen
At a press conference at the World Cup Karjakin pointed out that while Kasparov was training Carlsen he was being trained by Kasparov’s old trainer.
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