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Spassky: "I knew the openings badly"

Spassky: “I knew the openings badly”

By mishanp on January 30, 2012

Boris Spassky, the Tenth World Chess Champion, today turned 75. In a long interview he talked about his introduction to chess, the road to the title and his friendship and rivalry with Bobby Fischer, as well as about his personal life, from surviving the Siege of Leningrad to his first unsuccessful marriage and moving to France.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Bondarevsky, Fischer, Geller, Keres, Petrosian, Spassky, Tal, Tolush, Zak, Zangalis | 6 Responses

Gelfand was met in the airport by his family | photo: 7kanal.com

Boris Gelfand: A completely happy man

By mishanp on May 31, 2011

After Boris Gelfand won the Candidates Matches in Kazan he gave numerous interviews that shed light on a player who, despite having been at the top of world chess for 20 years, is perhaps still something of a mystery to chess fans. It’s time for that to change, as an Anand-Gelfand World Championship match awaits!

Posted in Russian | Tagged age, Anand, Candidates Matches, Carlsen, Gelfand, Geller, Grischuk, Kamsky, Kramnik, Mamedyarov, Petrosian, Soviet School | 13 Responses

Anti-hero? Evgeny Vasiukov on Viktor Korchnoi

Anti-hero? Evgeny Vasiukov on Viktor Korchnoi

By mishanp on March 24, 2011

Viktor Korchnoi, who turned 80 yesterday, is one of the great figures of twentieth-century chess, but also one of the most controversial. Evgeny Vasiukov, who’s known him for 60 years, felt compelled to voice what he considers the truth about Korchnoi, both as a man and a chess player.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Botvinnik, Bronstein, Fischer, Karpov, Korchnoi, Petrosian, Sosonko, Taimanov, Tal, Vasiukov | 41 Responses

Fischer unleashes his "river variation" on Gligorić at the 1958 Interzonal

Analysing by the riverside with Bobby Fischer

By mishanp on June 23, 2010

In a remarkable interview given to Yury Vasiliev of Sport Express, the 87-year-old GM Svetozar Gligorić talks about some of his career highs and lows, his friendship with Fischer and the unlikely new career he took up, aged 81.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Capablanca, Chess960, computers, Fischer, Fischer-Spassky 1992, Gligorić, Petrosian, Spassky, Tal, Vasiliev | 3 Responses

Gelfand at Crestbook Part I

By mishanp on May 6, 2010

Boris Gelfand’s responses to reader questions at Crestbook were all you could hope for – patient, revealing and full of insights and anecdotes. Remarkably these translations are only a fraction of the original, and this is only part one.

Posted in Russian | Tagged age, Gelfand, Ivanchuk, Kasparov, Korchnoi, nature or nurture, Petrosian, Rubinstein, Tal | Leave a 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

Karpov on the World Champions

By mishanp on August 15, 2009

Anatoly Karpov gave a long interview to the Russian RIA News. The most fascinating section is his assessment of his own place in the pantheon of Chess World Champions, including his controversial opinion that Anand and Topalov would have been unable to achieve the same success without computers.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Alekhine, Anand, Aronian, Bogoljubov, Botvinnik, Bronstein, Capablanca, Carlsen, Chigorin, computers, Euwe, FIDE election, Fischer, Ilyumzhinov, Ivanchuk, Karjakin, Karpov, Kasparov, Keres, Korchnoi, Kramnik, Lasker, Leko, Petrosian, Rubinstein, Spassky, Steinitz, Tal, Topalov | 5 Responses

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