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 gives his opinion of how the current players compare to the former Champions.
- Anand’s WhyChess interview
- The rise and rise of Mateusz Bartel
- Anish Giri: The one who got away
- Ilyumzhinov on the London Candidates and Grand Prix
- Averbakh: “History is written by the victors”
- Ivanchuk: “I could have become a writer”
- Karpov, Kramnik and Kasparov on Spassky
- Spassky: “I knew the openings badly”
- Kramnik: Tseshkovsky “loved chess too much”
- Magnus Carlsen: Not a child of the computer era
- “It’s genuine class” – Bareev on Grischuk’s Houdini act
- World Cup Semis, Day 3: Grischuk wins thriller
- “I don’t consider chess a game. It’s theatre.”
- Anti-hero? Evgeny Vasiukov on Viktor Korchnoi
- Kramnik: “Kasparov took that sporting defeat as a declaration of war”
- Shirov on missing his chance to win Wijk
- Kramnik on the liberation of losing the crown
- Svidler: “The circus is travelling to Khanty”
- Candidates Matches once more in turmoil
- Vassily Ivanchuk: “I’m a very ambitious person”
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