Karpov on the Pozner show
Anatoly Karpov gave an almost hour-long interview on Russian prime-time television, discussing his candicacy for the position of FIDE President, and much else besides.
Spassky: “I liked that the rook moved in straight lines and ate everything.”
Boris Spassky interviews nowadays always make a nice change of pace, though this one is particularly offbeat – given to a local journalist on the way from a provincial Russian train station to a waiting car (he was returning to the area he was evacuated to from Leningrad during WWII).
“How can it get worse? Here’s how…”
In the early days of the FIDE Presidential campaign Sergei Shipov came to Ilyumzhinov’s defence on his forum when someone said that however bad Karpov is he couldn’t be worse than Kirsan.
Kasparov on ending his work with Carlsen
While Garry Kasparov was in Georgia he gave an interview which extratime.az claim is the first to the Azerbaijan media in 20 years. It was one of the first public statements after the news that Kasparov had stopped training Carlsen provoked much speculation.
Gashimov at Crestbook
Vugar Gashimov recently gave an interesting interview at Crestbook. He goes into detail on what happened at the end of the World Team Championship in Turkey, where quick draws with the US left the Azerbaijan team without medals.
Shipov wins blitz
Sergey Shipov struck a blow for chess commentators everywhere by winning a handicap blitz tournament in Moscow, finishing ahead of Grischuk and Morozevich.
Chesspro game-of-the-month scandal? :)
The voting in Chesspro’s January game of the month was unusual enough to invite tongue-in-cheek comparison to a voting scandal from the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
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