By mishanp on March 30, 2010
Anatoly Karpov gave an almost hour-long interview on Russian prime-time television, discussing his candicacy for the position of FIDE President, and much else besides.
Posted in Russian | Tagged Capablanca, Euwe, FIDE election, Fischer, Ilyumzhinov, Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik, Pozner, Tal |
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 |
By mishanp on March 20, 2010
While Garry Kasparov was in Georgia he gave an interview which extratime.az claim is the first to the Azerbaijan media in 20 years. It was one of the first public statements after the news that Kasparov had stopped training Carlsen provoked much speculation.
Posted in Russian | Tagged Alekhine, Azerbaijan, Azmaiparashvili, Carlsen, FIDE election, Karpov, Kasparov, Tal |
By mishanp on March 12, 2010
Vugar Gashimov recently gave an interesting interview at Crestbook. He goes into detail on what happened at the end of the World Team Championship in Turkey, where quick draws with the US left the Azerbaijan team without medals.
Posted in Russian | Tagged Azerbaijan, Azmaiparashvili, Gashimov, Radjabov, World Team Championship |
By mishanp on March 1, 2010
The voting in Chesspro’s January game of the month was unusual enough to invite tongue-in-cheek comparison to a voting scandal from the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
Posted in Russian | Tagged Game of the month |
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 |
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 |
By mishanp on February 21, 2010
Grischuk’s second at Linares, Khismatullin, made this cryptic comment at the end of his description of Grischuk’s loss to Topalov.
Posted in Russian | Tagged Bareev, Grischuk, Kasparov, Khismatullin, Linares, Ljuboevic, Topalov |
By mishanp on February 17, 2010
In the early rounds of Linares Aronian had promising positions but failed to collect any full points. That didn’t stop him providing good quotes for Vasiliev at Chesspro.
Posted in Russian | Tagged Aronian, Benoni, Bronstein, Linares, Topalov |
By mishanp on February 13, 2010
In mutual time trouble in a crazy position Dominguez gave Shirov a chance to land a winning blow – and tie for first place in the tournament. But with seconds remaining Shirov agreed to a draw.
Posted in Russian | Tagged Carlsen, computers, Dominguez, Kramnik, Shirov, Wijk |
