Chess in Translation
Chess in Translation
Russian chess news and interviews in English
  • Home
  • Archives
    • All posts
    • All tags
    • All thumbnails

learning chess

Spassky played a match with Korchnoi in 2009

Spassky: “I liked that the rook moved in straight lines and ate everything.”

By mishanp on March 23, 2010

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).

Posted in Russian | Tagged Korchnoi, learning chess, Spassky | Leave a response

  • Recent Posts
  • Random
  • Archived
  • Anand’s WhyChess interview
  • The rise and rise of Mateusz Bartel
  • Anish Giri: The one who got away
  • Ilyumzhinov on the London Candidates and Grand Prix
  • Averbakh: “History is written by the victors”
  • Ivanchuk: “I could have become a writer”
  • Karpov, Kramnik and Kasparov on Spassky
  • Spassky: “I knew the openings badly”
  • Kramnik: Tseshkovsky “loved chess too much”
  • Magnus Carlsen: Not a child of the computer era
  • Judit Polgar: “I love chess”
  • Your questions for GM Ruslan Ponomariov
  • “Svidler is Svidler” – Bareev on the Russian team’s start
  • Online game commentary ends on cosmic note
  • Evgeny Bareev: “A lot of people live in China”
  • Spassky: “I liked that the rook moved in straight lines and ate everything.”
  • Kramnik: “Kasparov took that sporting defeat as a declaration of war”
  • Grischuk on the World Cup
  • Kramnik on his Wijk performance
  • Kramnik on beating Carlsen at Wijk
  • May 2012
  • March 2012
  • February 2012
  • January 2012
  • December 2011
  • November 2011
  • October 2011
  • September 2011
  • August 2011
  • July 2011

Tags

age Anand Aronian Bareev Barsky Candidates Matches Carlsen Chess960 computers Crestbook Danailov FIDE FIDE election Fischer Fominykh Gelfand Grischuk Ilyumzhinov Ivanchuk Kamsky Karjakin Karpov Kasparov Korchnoi Kramnik Leko Levitov Malakhov Morozevich Nakamura Nepomniachtchi Odessky Olympiad Ponomariov Shipov Shirov Spassky Surov Svidler Tal Topalov Vasiliev WC 2010 Wojtaszek World Cup 2011

2700chess.com for more details and full list

Copyright © 2010-2026 Chess in Translation.

Powered by WordPress and Hybrid.