Thank you for granting chess fans this interview!
My question is "Who is your all-time favorite chess player and why?" Also, what is your opinion / impression of Paul Keres?
Thank you sir!

what is your religion ?

Is Mark Dvoretsky planning to write a new endgame book any time soon ? Which top players has he been training recently ? What does Mark think of computer tablebases analysing many endgames perfectly nowadays ? Can all that computer power be generalize in concepts such as John Nunn tried to do ?

Dear Mark Dvoretsky, i own your book on endgames (Endgame Manual). When learning from it, should i use a board or try to do the calculations in my mind? What will improve my chess more?

Thanks for that great opportunity, my question for Mr Dvoretsky is:
In your opinion what is the recipe for becoming and remaining a world class chess player nowadays ?

What do tou think about the decision Magnus Carlsen took?

Do you think is it possoble to a regular player become a GM or an IM, with study and practice, or it depends on his natural talent also?

Dear Mr. Dvoretsky,

In NIC 2010/6 Jan Timman does not agree with your evaluation of the ending Rook+pawn - Bishop+pawn. You wrote in your magnificent "Endgame Manual" that it always wins. Timman disagrees. Did you read his article? And if yes, what is your reaction?

What is the most important thing to make progress in chess, apart from hard work?

Dear Mr.Dvoretsky,

What do you think of Anish Giri compared to players like Sergei Karjakin and Magnus Carlsen? Is he as talented as them?

At what stage of your game do you develop a plan?

Peter the dog.

Too bad you toke my questions away, they had value.

Much more the all the shit questions combined here.

Chessvibes is really going down the hill.

1. Among contemporary chess prodigies who would you like to coach?
2. In the past you coached Kasparov, Anand and Topalov. What were their specific shortcomings and how did you attack to these problems?
Thnx for the opporutnity.

What about making some chess DVDs? Don't you think that it would be easier to communicate your already-wonderful lessons ?

Q: I have bought a few of your books (technique for tournament player etc) but they are too tough for me. Would you ever consider releasing a book teaching a player from scratch rather than assuming they are already quite good?

Dear Mr.Dvoretsky

Could you please tell me about an effective and efficient plan for self development .

for juniors with rating between 2000 to 2200 and good English knowledge .

Best regards

Mr. Dvoretsky, Which are, in your opinion, the most important developments in chess strategy and general understanding after the Kasparov era? How is the game improving? What have the world champions after Kasparov added to chess?
Thank you

Every time a strong GM seriously misplays an endgame --- e.g. Kasparov losing the R+4 v R+3; or Kasparov-Short (g9) where both players blundered in a R+2 v R ending --- commentators say something like "this shows the importance of understanding endgames". But it seems to me these mistakes show exactly the OPPOSITE: they show that a player can become a very strong GM without mastering the endgame.
Maybe mastering the endgame is much less important than other chess skills?

which all chessplayers did you train?
which of your chess students were the best? :)
whom do you train now or in future? Carlsen?:)
who were your chess trainers in the past?
how important is a chessengine and chess database today for a training?

How should strong players (like 2400+, 2500+ and so on) train in chess? And as one gets stronger, is there anything else to train on except openings and ones own games? Also, how should a player train when he is in the process of stagnation/bad form and the like?

My Questions are:

1) What do you think of Chess in future, say in 2050. Today calculators are being used for even simple mathematical calculations which were once done just mentally or by oneself. Will future generation think, 'when my chess engine can play or solve chess then why should I spend so much time on it? I can use my creativity and intelligence for some other thing which a machine can't do!'

2) Who do you think is a stronger player if we have one person who is World Champion and other person who is No1 on ELO rating list? Which is the best way to know who is the strongest player in the world?

Thank you

Dear Mr. M.Dvoretsky,
Do you agree that playing chess at the highest level (Oft topsport under pressure from the parents) for children aged 5 till 17 actually is an unhealthy activity because the total surrender and fixation costs a lot of individual development and spiritual/physical joy?
Thank you for your answer!

I am 23 years old and 2350 rated. Is it possible for me to become 2700 in four years?

Wow that's a nice coup of hair you have there. Have you ever considered modelling just like Magnus Carlson?

What are you favorite books? Those who you cherish the most? Those whom you learned the most?

Thanks

Dear Mr Dvoretsky,

Two questions:

1) If it is true that by studying the games of the great masters of the past you repeat the steps of development of chess history in your own development as an individual (Kramnik, amongst others, thinks so), is it then possible to recommend the study of games of a specific period in chess history to players of a specific rating level (i.e players rated 1200-1500 should mainly study the games of Morphy and his contemporaries, and players rated around 1800 the games of Tarrasch and his contemporaries, etc., just as an example, of course)?

2) Say you have two players A and B below master strength with the same rating, i.e. 1800. Do they need to work with roughly the same aspects of the game to improve, or is what they need to do to improve an individual thing, meaning for instance, that player A can have a "tactical" rating of 2000, but a "positional" rating of 1600, and player B the opposite?

Thank you for your great books, particularly the endgame manual!

Kristian Pade Frederiksen

I always like questions that force people out of their comfort zone, especially when they're used to getting praised all the time. So I would ask something like, 'What are the biggest drawbacks of your training method' or 'What techniques have you simply copied from other trainers?'

Hi dear Mark, I am a great fan of you and your books. Probably the most useful has been your outstanding Endgame manual Thanks for agreeing to answer to the public.

My questions would be the following:

1- Which players that you either trained or not, of the top chess world do you consider that they are at least equal (or maybe even better) in natural chess pure talent to the very best (players that made it to WCH or the top ranks), but for other reasons (laziness, personality, etc) haven’t or wont ever been able to be either WCH or even the top 5. In my view, the most notable example is my favourite genius Vasil Ivanchuk.
2- Alexei Shirov recently said that a top GM preparation is more than 90% about the openings. Do you believe that this is the correct approach? If you should divide the time of study and work for a A) Class A (1800-2100), B) Candidate Master (2100-2300) C) Master and above (2300+) of working in three fields, namely 1-openings, 2-middgame (including calculation training) and 3-endgame, how would you recommend it (for e.g., for someone with 6hs a day, if you were to consider the 3 equally important, the division would be 2 hs. for each)
3- Do you believe that “Blitz (or bullet)” chess in prejudicial for one’s game? Don’t you think that it could also tell something about the person sheer chess talent, as we can see that the best classical time players often “happen to be” the best chess blitz players too?
4- What is your opinion of GM Hikaru Nakamura?

Best regards,

Adolfo.

Mr. Dvoretksy, which openings do you think an improving player with Elo between 1500 and 1800 should play? And should he play the main lines or try to deviate quickly?

Dear Mr Mark Dvoretsky! Looking backward into chess history, what do you think about Bobby Fischer´s non-computer-era endgame technique in comparison to other world champions and modern top grandmasters? Thank you very much in advance for your answer. Dr. W.J. Berghorn, Waldkirch, Germany