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The great Anand's little ideas - part I

The great Anand’s little ideas – part I

By mishanp on August 11, 2010

Grandmaster Radosław Wojtaszek, one of Viswanathan Anand’s seconds in Sofia, annotated the games from the recent World Championship Match for the Polish “Mat” chess magazine.

Posted in Polish | Tagged Anand, Aronian, Carlsen, Kasparov, Kramnik, Mat, Pein, Shipov, Topalov, WC 2010, Wojtaszek | 10 Responses

Karpov proposes holding Candidates Matches in Kiev

Karpov proposes holding Candidates Matches in Kiev

By mishanp on August 7, 2010

Anatoly Karpov, former World Chess Champion and candidate for the post of FIDE President, is proposing switching the Candidates Matches from Kazan, Russia, to the Ukrainian capital of Kiev.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Aronian, Baku, Candidates 2011, FIDE election, Ilyumzhinov, Kapustin, Kazan, Kiev, Mamedyarov, Naberezhnye Chelny, Ponomariov | 7 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

Kazan, Russia

Candidates Matches once more in turmoil

By mishanp on July 24, 2010

In a bolt from the blue, the Kommersant newspaper reports that the Russian Chess Federation is lobbying to have the 2011 Candidates Matches switched from Baku, in Azerbaijan, to Kazan, in Russia. Veselin Topalov has joined the fray by refusing to play in Russia.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Armenia, Aronian, Azerbaijan, Baku, Candidates Matches, Dvorkovich, Extra Time, Ilyumzhinov, Kazan, Kommersant, Kosteniuk, Mair Mamedov, RCF, Selivanov, Sutovsky, Topalov, UEP | 5 Responses

Aronian: I won’t travel to Baku

By mishanp on May 16, 2010

On the final day of the World Championship match in Sofia, Levon Aronian was interviewed in Armenia by Vadim Mkrtchian of “Golos Armenii” (“Voice of Armenia”). The interview includes Levon’s view on the match, the FIDE election, opening preparation, and his reasons for not wanting to play candidates matches in Baku.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Anand, Aronian, Candidates 2011, computers, FIDE elections, Ilyumzhinov, Karpov, Topalov, WC 2010 | Leave a 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

Aronian and the Benoni

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 | 1 Response

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.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Aronian, Gelfand, Gligorich, Ivanchuk, Larsen, Petrosian | 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.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Anand, Aronian, Kramnik, Leko, Ponomariov, Tal Memorial | Leave a response

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