Aronian’s chess idols
By mishanp on December 5, 2009
Aronian was asked to name his chess idols by the 1news.az website, and came up with a surprise or two.
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Bareev and the shoe thrower
By mishanp on December 4, 2009
GM Evgeny Bareev gave a long and outspoken interview to Maria Fominykh for Chesspro. Highlights included his description of why Jan Nepomniachtchi was excluded from his chess school, and how Carlsen is following in Kasparov’s footsteps.
Posted in Russian | Tagged Bareev, Carlsen, Danailov, Karjakin, Kasparov, Le Quang Liem, Nepomniachtchi, Sjugirov, Tal Blitz | Leave a response
Highlights from extratime.az’s World Cup coverage
By mishanp on December 3, 2009
Eljanov on Ukrainian players wanting to abandon their federation and Shirov’s unusual training methods, Gashimov on “incorrect” Chinese chess, and more: the Azerbaijan site was on hand to report a lot of interesting material from the World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk.
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Karjakin on his rivalry with Carlsen
By mishanp on December 3, 2009
At a press conference at the World Cup Karjakin pointed out that while Kasparov was training Carlsen he was being trained by Kasparov’s old trainer.
Posted in Russian | Tagged Carlsen, Dohoyan, Karjakin, Kasparov, Mamedyarov, Motylev, World Cup | 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
Kramnik: “One of the toughest games of my whole life”
By mishanp on November 12, 2009
The Chesspro report on rounds 5 and 6 of the Tal Memorial in Moscow included Kramnik’s reflections on his hard-fought victory over Ponomariov.
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Aronian on draws and… “I’m like an animal”
By mishanp on November 10, 2009
Ilya Odessky’s report at the Tal Memorial website included Aronian disputing the link between draws and dull play, and also surprising the journalists in the press centre with a gnomic utterance.
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“Chess isn’t something squalid, chess is very cool”
By mishanp on November 9, 2009
Ilya Odessky’s report included a transcript of Kramnik’s demonstration of his game with Anand, given as proof of the folly of considering draws necessarily boring.
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“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.
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Svidler on Kramnik’s opening preparation, and Shirov’s top 5
By mishanp on November 5, 2009
Peter Svidler describes how Kramnik’s approach to opening preparation is not his thing, while Alexei Shirov sums up the top 5 players.
Posted in Russian | Tagged Anand, Aronian, Carlsen, Kramnik, Leko, preparation, Shirov, Svidler, Topalov | Leave a response
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