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Judit Polgar: "I love chess"

Judit Polgar: “I love chess”

By mishanp on April 12, 2011

While Vladimir Potkin’s transformation from coach into major tournament winner was impressive, perhaps the most popular story of the recent European Championship was Judit Polgar’s spectacular return to form. After the event she gave an interview to Evgeny Surov of Chess-News.

Posted in Russian | Tagged European Individual Championship 2011, Karpov, Kasparov, Polgar, Potkin, Surov | 7 Responses

Alexander Khalifman in Aix-les-Bains

What the press don’t write about

By mishanp on March 29, 2011

If you heard that Sergey Shipov’s sixth letter from Aix-les-Bains was about an ex-World Champion and bathroom visits… you’d come to completely the wrong conclusion! Shipov talks about the European Championship venue, and the down-to-earth reality of grandmaster life.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Beliavsky, Crestbook, European Individual Championship 2011, Gallagher, Kasparov, Khalifman, Shipov, time control | Leave a response

The Massacre of the Innocents - Nicolas Poussin

The massacre of the innocents

By mishanp on March 29, 2011

We all know that computers have transformed chess, but in his Round 5 letter from the European Individual Championship in Aix-les-Bains, Sergey Shipov gave a particularly graphic account of how computer analysis can render strong grandmasters utterly helpless against apparently weaker opponents.

Posted in Russian | Tagged computers, Crestbook, European Individual Championship 2011, Fedorchuk, Feller, Kasparov, Kramnik, Martinovic, Shipov, Svidler | 2 Responses

Can you match Garry Kasparov?

Can you match Garry Kasparov?

By mishanp on February 25, 2011

Garry Kasparov, with some help from his wife Dasha, recently won the Georgian charity version of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?”, answering 15 questions correctly to win 20,000 lari (about 11,400 USD) for a brother and sister requiring heart surgery. Could you have done the same?

Posted in Russian | Tagged Dasha Kasparova, Kasparov, Mig, Taimanov, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire | 9 Responses

Ponomariov at Tata Steel 2011 | photo: Fred Lucas, www.fredlucas.eu

GM Ruslan Ponomariov answers your questions: Part I

By mishanp on February 22, 2011

Answering reader questions almost a decade after becoming FIDE World Champion as an 18-year-old, Ruslan Ponomariov provides both a revealing insight into the life of an elite player, and a damning indictment of the chess politics that saw his match against Garry Kasparov collapse.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Carlsen, Crestbook, Ilyumzhinov, Ivanchuk, Kamsky, Kasimdzhanov, Kasparov, KC-Conference, Kramnik, Ponomariov, Short, World Cup | 3 Responses

Ivanchuk at the market in Lviv

Vassily Ivanchuk: I can still become World Champion

By mishanp on February 5, 2011

Vassily Ivanchuk’s stunning win in Gibraltar reminded us all of his enormous chess talent, while his recent long interview with the Ukrainian Zaxid.net addressed the missing piece of the jigsaw – why is it that a genius like Ivanchuk has failed to mount a serious World Championship challenge?

Posted in Ukrainian | Tagged Capablanca Chess, Carlsen, Chess960, computers, FIDE, FIDE election, Gibraltar, Golubev, Ivanchuk, Kasparov, So, Tymoshenko, World Cup | 14 Responses

Banking on Kasparov

Banking on Kasparov

By mishanp on January 20, 2011

While the fashion career of his former protégé, Magnus Carlsen, continues apace, Garry Kasparov has recently been involved in an advertising campaign of his own. It’s fair to say his promotion of the Polish division of ING Bank shows the ex-World Champion as you’ve never seen him before!

Posted in Polish, Russian | Tagged Chuck Norris, ING Bank, Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi, Marek Kondrat, Privorotsky, Robert Kubica, Scheveningen | 1 Response

Sergey Shipov commentating live on Tata Steel Chess 2011

Sergey Shipov commentating live on Tata Steel Chess 2011

By mishanp on January 15, 2011

Grandmaster Sergey Shipov is providing live commentary at Crestbook on the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk-aan-Zee, and I’ll once again be taking on the foolhardy task of trying to translate his words almost immediately into English, here at Chess in Translation.

Posted in Live commentary, Russian | Tagged Bilbao Masters 2010, Crestbook, Dortmund 2010, Kasparov, London Chess Classic 2010, Nepomniachtchi, Shipov, Tata Steel 2011 | Leave a response

Kasparov presents the London trophy to Carlsen | photo: Ray Morris-Hill

Kasparov’s verdict on Carlsen’s withdrawal

By mishanp on January 9, 2011

Ever since Magnus Carlsen’s shock withdrawal from the Candidates Matches it’s been suggested that Garry Kasparov was behind the decision. In a recent interview, however, Kasparov blew that theory out of the water and expressed his disapproval of his former student’s actions.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Candidates 2011, Carlsen, Fischer, Ilyumzhinov, Karpov, Kasparov, London Chess Classic 2010 | 13 Responses

Kramnik at the London Chess Classic | photo: Ray Morris-Hill

Vladimir Kramnik on 2010

By mishanp on December 31, 2010

Evgeny Surov’s interview with Vladimir Kramnik after the recent London Chess Classic provided not only an insight into Kramnik’s thought processes during that event, but also a review of 2010 as a whole and an indication of his hopes for the coming year.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Aronian, Candidates 2011, Carlsen, Kasparov, London Chess Classic 2010, McShane, Nakamura, Nikitin, Surov, Tal Memorial 2010, Wijk 2011 | 8 Responses

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