Svidler: “The circus is travelling to Khanty”
After Peter Svidler won the 2011 Russian Championship he gave a long interview to Vladimir Barsky for the Russian Chess Federation website. Barsky had been with Svidler at the World Team Championship in Ningbo, China, so had witnessed the dramatic change of fortune between the two events first-hand.
Morozevich demonstrates his win against Svidler
A little of the shine was taken off Peter Svidler’s victory at the Russian Championship Superfinal when he lost in the final round. The mercurial Alexander Morozevich later showed an audience how he used a rare opening line to beat Svidler and snatch clear second place in the tournament.
Svidler demonstrates his win against Timofeev
One of the great virtues of grandmasters demonstrating their games straight after they’re over, as they did at the Russian Championship Superfinal, is that we get to see what they actually thought before switching on a computer. Peter Svidler’s commentary on his win in round 5 is a case in point.
Evgeny Bareev: “A lot of people live in China”
The World Team Championship in Ningbo, China is shaping up to be a fantastic event. Russia is again the team to beat, though with Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Armenia and hosts China breathing down their necks, it won’t be easy. It might, however, be easier than the team’s journey, which was described by Bareev.
Grischuk: I was worried I’d forgotten how to play chess
Just before the closing ceremony of the Candidates Matches in Kazan, Alexander Grischuk gave a fascinating interview to Yury Vasiliev of ChessPro, where he talked about tactics, his fear he’d forgotten how to play chess, Gelfand’s play in the final, and the “burial of classical chess” due to draws.
Vassily Ivanchuk: “I’m a very ambitious person”
Few would identify emotional outbursts as the quality to borrow from Garry Kasparov, but then Vassily Ivanchuk has always stood out from the crowd. In a long and fascinating interview he again displays the self-awareness and deliberate strategy that often lie behind his apparent eccentricities.
The massacre of the innocents
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.
First impressions from Aix-les-Bains
In his first two reports from the European Individual Championship in Aix-les-Bains, Sergey Shipov described arriving in the small French town, and also addressed the failure of the favourites to dominate their much lower-rated opponents in the first round.
The future belongs to 1. g3!
Sergey Shipov was inspired to make that declaration after watching Peter Svidler play the move in the fourth round of the European Individual Chess Championship in Aix-les-Bains, France. Shipov, coaching at the event, is posting regular reports at Crestbook.
GM Peter Svidler answers your questions: Part II
Here at last! Part Two of Svidler’s “KC-Conference” saw Peter answer reader questions on an enormous range of topics, from the standard - e.g. why he chose the Grunfeld and how to improve at chess, to others you’ll struggle to find elsewhere - e.g. why he wears an earring and whether he has chess-related dreams.
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