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Giri at Tata Steel 2012 | photo: Fred Lucas

Anish Giri: The one who got away

By mishanp on February 25, 2012

Anish Giri is currently the world’s most promising junior, but although he now represents the Netherlands he started his chess career in St. Petersburg, Russia. One of his first coaches, Asya Kovalyova, explains how a chess superpower let a prodigy slip through its grasp.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Caruana, Giri, Glukhovsky, Kovalyova, Lopatenok | 3 Responses

Hikaru Nakamura giving the winner's speech

Birth of a Supernova: Vasiliev reports from Wijk aan Zee

By mishanp on February 2, 2011

Hikaru Nakamura’s tournament victory was described as “the birth of a supernova” by Yury Vasiliev in two final reports from the Tata Steel 2011 Tournament. The Russian journalist was on the ground in Wijk aan Zee to provide photo reports and comments from players and observers throughout the event.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Anand, Aronian, Carlsen, ChessPro, Chuchelov, Giri, Grischuk, Kramnik, Nakamura, Nepomniachtchi, Nyzhnyk, Shirov, Sport Express, Tata Steel 2011, Topalov, van den Berg, van Wely, Vasiliev | 6 Responses

16-year-old Anish Giri was within a whisker of beating the World Champion | photo: Fred Lucas, www.fredlucas.eu

Shipov’s live commentary on Tata Steel Chess 2011, Rd 12

By mishanp on January 29, 2011

When Sergey Shipov saw Nakamura – Kramnik was heading, as the Russians say, “for a drawing harbour”, he abandoned ship and started commentating on Anand – Giri instead. It proved the perfect choice, as 16-year-old Anish Giri played “the game of his life, but he couldn’t bring it to its logical conclusion”.   

Posted in Live commentary, Russian | Tagged Anand, Crestbook, Giri, Kramnik, Nakamura, Shipov, Tata Steel 2011 | 1 Response

The game had a powerful opening idea from Gandalf-Nepomniachtchi

Shipov’s live commentary on Tata Steel Chess 2011, Rd 6

By mishanp on January 21, 2011

After the debacle on the black side of the Grunfeld in Round 4, Ian Nepomniachtchi bounced back today in style against Anish Giri. Sergey Shipov memorably described the opening phase, where Giri bravely refused to take a draw, with reference to Gandalf combatting a ferocious monster.

Posted in Live commentary, Russian | Tagged Crestbook, Giri, Nepomniachtchi, Shipov, Tata Steel 2011 | 3 Responses

Ivanchuk at the Olympiad | photo: russiachess.org

Ivanchuk: “People look at some of us as eccentrics”

By mishanp on October 19, 2010

Despite his loss today to Aronian, Vassily Ivanchuk has been in impressive form of late, particularly in his dominant performance on the first board at the Olympiad. He recently gave an interview to the Ukrainian “Podrobnosti”, where he talks about the Olympiad, what chess means for him and who he sees replacing his generation of players.

Posted in Russian | Tagged age, Anand, Carlsen, Gelfand, Giri, Ivanchuk, Jobava, Karjakin, Maria Muzychuk, Moiseenko, Olympiad, So, Tukmakov, Vachier-Lagrave, Volokitin | 3 Responses

Wojtaszek on being Anand's second

Wojtaszek on being Anand’s second

By mishanp on July 28, 2010

Radosław Wojtaszek, one of Anand’s seconds in Sofia, gave an interview to the Polish chess magazine “Mat”. Topics included the help provided by Kramnik & co., the enigma of Topalov’s “weak” play but stellar rating, and the effect of the volcano on Anand’s plans.

Posted in Polish | Tagged Anand, Bartel, Carlsen, computers, Gajewski, Giri, Kramnik, Mat, Sofia Rules, Świercz, Topalov, WC 2010, Wojtaszek | 18 Responses

Gelfand at Crestbook Part II

By mishanp on June 20, 2010

The second installment of Boris Gelfand’s answers to the questions of Crestbook readers kept up the incredible length and quality of the first. A general title might be, “Everything you ever wanted to know about GM chess but never dared to ask”. He patiently answers questions ranging from “e4 or d4” to “what’s the meaning of life”!

Posted in Russian | Tagged age, Anand, Anti-Moscow, Carlsen, Caruana, cube, Elista, FIDE election, football, Gelfand, Giri, Grischuk, Ilyumzhinov, Ivanchuk, Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik, Makropoulos, Najdorf, Nakamura, Petroff, Pirc, Rodshtein, time control, Topalov, WC 2010 | 5 Responses

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