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Kramnik: "99% of the chess world was rooting for Anand"

Kramnik: “99% of the chess world was rooting for Anand”

By mishanp on September 20, 2010

With chess about to start in Khanty-Mansiysk, Vladimir Kramnik gave an interview to Yury Vasiliev of  Sport Express. As well as expressing his hopes for the Russian team in the Olympiad he talks about how he helped Anand in Sofia, the glass cube in Bilbao, and gives a damning assessment of Topalov and Danailov’s recent comments about the Candidate Matches. 

Posted in Russian | Tagged Anand, Bilbao, Candidates Matches, Carlsen, cube, Danailov, Kasparov, Kramnik, Malakhov, Shanghai, Topalov, Vasiliev, WC 2010 | 11 Responses

The great Anand's little ideas - part III

The great Anand’s little ideas – part III

By mishanp on September 2, 2010

Radosław Wojtaszek’s commentary on the final games of the Anand-Topalov match again reveals the thinking of the Anand team, but also the human story of how, for instance, the seconds returned to their rooms to nap when the decisive game appeared to be heading for a draw. 

Posted in Polish | Tagged Anand, Doggers, Mat, Shipov, Topalov, Vasiliev, WC 2010, Wojtaszek | 3 Responses

Silvio Danailov, taken from http://danailov-for-president.com/

“The Russian player we played a match against in 2006 in Elista doesn’t exist for us!”

By mishanp on July 29, 2010

Yury Vasiliev of Sport Express broke the news yesterday that Veselin Topalov would, after all, be willing to play Candidates Matches in Russia. Today, in the full version of the interview, Silvio Danailov goes into much greater detail on his feelings towards Kramnik, his disapproval of FIDE’s conduct during the match in Sofia, and the upcoming matches and Olympiad.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Anand, Aronian, Berbatov, Candidates Matches, Carlsen, Danailov, ECU election, Elista, Kasparov, Kramnik, Makropoulos, Mamedyarov, Olympiad, Sport Express, Sutovsky, Topalov, Vasiliev, WC 2010 | 11 Responses

Fischer unleashes his "river variation" on Gligorić at the 1958 Interzonal

Analysing by the riverside with Bobby Fischer

By mishanp on June 23, 2010

In a remarkable interview given to Yury Vasiliev of Sport Express, the 87-year-old GM Svetozar Gligorić talks about some of his career highs and lows, his friendship with Fischer and the unlikely new career he took up, aged 81.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Capablanca, Chess960, computers, Fischer, Fischer-Spassky 1992, Gligorić, Petrosian, Spassky, Tal, Vasiliev | 3 Responses

Chronicle of a suicide

By mishanp on May 13, 2010

That’s the title Yury Vasiliev gave to an amazing interview with Topalov after the final game of the World Championship match in Sofia. Topalov reveals what went through his mind when he committed consecutive blunders on moves 31 and 32, while Anand also gives his views on the match.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Abhyankar, Anand, Dufek, Kasimdzhanov, Kramnik, Topalov, Vasiliev, WC 2010 | 1 Response

Final interviews from Linares

By mishanp on February 27, 2010

Vasiliev’s final report on Linares 2010 was a bumper round-up of interviews with the participants, including Topalov’s pyramid theory of why he should only play for large amounts of money.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Aronian, Danailov, Gelfand, Grischuk, Linares, Topalov, Vasiliev | Leave a response

White to move and win

Online game commentary ends on cosmic note

By mishanp on February 21, 2010

In the Topalov-Aronian game at Linares Topalov missed a beautiful, hard-to-see but not hard-to-calculate, combination. His previous good luck combined with Aronian’s previous bad lack inspired a remarkable summary from one commentator.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Aronian, Linares, Topalov, Vasiliev, Zagrebelny | Leave a response

Shirov on a roll at Wijk

By mishanp on January 18, 2010

Vasiliev’s second report on Wijk 2010 at Chesspro included Shirov’s comments on his three wins.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Caruana, Dominguez, Karjakin, Kramnik, Leko, Shirov, Tiviakov, Vasiliev, Wijk | Leave a response

Kramnik on blitz

By mishanp on November 16, 2009

Fresh from winning the Tal Memorial in Moscow, Kramnik gave a couple of interviews where he talked about the upcoming World Blitz Championship, later won by Carlsen.  

Posted in Russian | Tagged Bilbao, blitz, Carlsen, Danailov, Glukhovsky, Grand Slam, Kasparov, Kramnik, Tal Blitz, Topalov, Vasiliev | Leave a response

“Magnus’ trainer had clearly not done enough work”

By mishanp on November 7, 2009

After Magnus Carlsen only survived his first round Tal Memorial game against Kramnik by finding a study-like draw, Kramnik couldn’t resist the temptation to tease Kasparov a little.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Carlsen, Ivanchuk, Kasparov, Kramnik, Tal Memorial, Vasiliev | Leave a response

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