Archive for Interview
Friday, December 14, 2012 21:42
Here's a brief interview we did last Monday with Judit Polgar, who looks back at the London Chess Classic and tells about what she's busy with these days. She also describes the proces of writing the second volume of her book.
How do you look back at the tournament?
Well, actually it was a very rough start, very difficult for many reasons. One of...
Thursday, December 13, 2012 16:50
Here's a brief interview we did with the 14th World Champion Vladimir Kramnik, who looks back at the London Chess Classic where he finished second behind Magnus Carlsen.
[Transcript:]
How do you look back at your tournament?
I'm very rarely satisfied with my chess. OK, that's just my character, I'm a perfectionist. I always feel that I did...
Thursday, November 22, 2012 9:30
There are many stories about chess players being successful at poker, but what about other card games? Last month FM Stanislav Cifka won a big tournament held in Seattle – not with chess, but with Magic: The Gathering, a popular trading card game. He went home with – hold your breath – US $40,000. GM Dimitri Reinderman, a Magic player himself,...
Sunday, October 28, 2012 19:37
Here's our video interview with Hikaru Nakamura, conducted right after his victory at the Univé Chess Tournament in Hoogeveen, The Netherlands where he finished ahead of Sergey Tiviakov, Anish Giri and Hou Yifan. The American top grandmaster speaks about his strategy for his last round game, his overall performance in Hoogeveen, his previous...
Monday, June 18, 2012 12:38
After our lengthy interview with challenger Boris Gelfand, obviously we also took the time to speak to Vishy Anand, who was, and still is, the World Champion. In this second part, he speaks about the second half of the match, the tie-break, the opening choices, his controversial draw offer in the last game, the criticism that he and Gelfand played...
Friday, June 15, 2012 18:40
After our lengthy interview with challenger Boris Gelfand, obviously we also took the time to speak to Vishy Anand, who was, and still is, the World Champion. We spoke to him on Skype on June 8th and 9th, exactly one week ago, and also one week after he had returned back to India.
Photos by Alexey Yushenkov & Anastasia Karlovich
On June 3rd,...
Saturday, June 09, 2012 11:33
One week after the end of the World Championship match in Moscow, challenger Boris Gelfand of Israel speaks out. In the second and last part of this interview, the Israeli tells about the second half of the match, about his favorite player Akiba Rubinstein, about his coaches whom he invited to Moscow, about chess in Israel and... about saying no...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012 18:28
Exactly one week after the end of the World Championship match in Moscow, challenger Boris Gelfand of Israel speaks out. In the first part of this interview, the Israeli tells us about his preparation, his choice of openings, and his view on chess and its the different types of audiences.
Photos by Alexey Yushenkov & Anastasia Karlovich
The...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012 13:09
Here's another lengthy interview with Andrei Filatov, the main sponsor of the Anand-Gelfand World Championship match. We received it from the organizers of the match. It is a translation from an interview which appeared in RBC Daily on May 14th. (See also our own video interview.)
“In my youth I was planning to become a chess arbiter”
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Sunday, May 27, 2012 18:05
David Navara finished 3rd at the Reykjavik Open two months ago in Iceland, during which he gave a long interview to Grandmaster Vasily Papin. The interview – where the Czech grandmaster talks, for instance, about his doubts about the life of a chess professional, Bobby Fischer and how he fell victim to Viktor Korchnoi’s legendary sharp tongue –...
