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Silvio Danailov | photo: Chessbase

Danailov: “Chess should either change, or die”

By mishanp on February 17, 2011

In a short but fascinating interview, Silvio Danailov, Veselin Topalov’s manager and the President of the European Chess Union, shed light on the fate of a number of tournaments, his protégé’s form, and new and controversial plans for the future of chess.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Candidates Matches, Danailov, European Women's Championship, Kramnik, Linares, M-Tel Masters, Sofia Rules, Topalov, Vasiliev | 5 Responses

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

“Topalov won the game in the best traditions of Bareev’s favourite chess player”

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 | 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

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