Gelfand at Crestbook Part II
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…
Welcome!
If you've stumbled across this site then please feel free to have a look around! It's still a work in…
Classical Anand, Romantic Topalov
84-year-old Mark Taimanov gave an interview to the Russian site, Smena. He talks about the recent WC Match in Sofia and…
Aronian: I won’t travel to Baku
On the final day of the World Championship match in Sofia, Levon Aronian was interviewed in Armenia by Vadim Mkrtchian…
Chronicle of a suicide
That's the title Yury Vasiliev gave to an amazing interview with Topalov after the final game of the World Championship match…
Gelfand at Crestbook Part I
Boris Gelfand's responses to reader questions at Crestbook were all you could hope for - patient, revealing and full of insights and…
Topalov on Kramnik and the Russians
Topalov gave a long and often interesting interview to the Bulgarian "Capital" newspaper, but one remarkable section stands out. The interviewer's mention of Kramnik…
Topalov: “if someone’s looking to create a provocation they’ll always find something”
Seldom have truer words been spoken than these by Topalov in an interview with the Bulgarian Topsport newspaper. (more…)
“The weak-willed don’t become top chess players”
Mark Glukovsky, editor of 64, the Russian equivalent of New in Chess, responded in a controversial but compulsively readable style to the questions…
Karpov on the Pozner show
Anatoly Karpov gave an almost hour-long interview on Russian prime-time television, discussing his candicacy for the position of FIDE President,…