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
- Karjakin reflects on moving up in the world
- “The Russian player we played a match against in 2006 in Elista doesn’t exist for us!”
- Kramnik on Nakamura, blitz and Carlsen
- The great Anand’s little ideas – part II
- Kramnik on his Wijk performance
- Bareev: “Today Ian played like a genius!”
- Ivanchuk: “People look at some of us as eccentrics”
- Kramnik: “If Topalov becomes champion it will be a disaster for chess”
- Shirov on missing his chance to win Wijk
- The great Anand’s little ideas – part III
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