Archive for Interview
Friday, December 16, 2011 12:26
The cooperation between Hikaru Nakamura and Garry Kasparov was short-lived. Just before the start of the London Chess Classic the American grandmaster decided to continue working on his chess without the assistance of the 13th World Champion. This was reported on Thursday by Macauley Peterson in an article for Chess Life Online.
In 'Nakamura:...
Friday, December 02, 2011 17:09
In the short period between the Tal Memorial and the London Chess Classic (which starts tomorrow), a few interviews with some of the world's best players have been published. In this post we share the most interesting ones with you.
In today's The Guardian, Sean Ingle interviewed Vishy Anand for the Small Talk series. The World Champion shared...
Sunday, November 27, 2011 12:30
In an interview taken by Anastasiya Karlovich and Anna Burtasova on the day after the decisive 8th game of the WWCC match, 17-year-old World Champion Hou Yifan from China talks about the match, the hospital story, her hobbies and her view on life.
Photos & interview © FIDE by Anastasiya Karlovich and Anna Burtasova
Congratulations on the...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 15:19
In an interview today for German newspaper Frankfurter Algemeine Kasparov tells about his Chess Foundation, his attempts to get chess into schools and his problems with Vladimir Putin. What you wouldn't have read in other interviews: he's interested in many things, including... football!
It seems that you're interested in almost everything.
"Even...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 12:49
Judit Polgar, the best female chess player that ever lived, is next in line for the Crestbook interviews series. At Chess in Translation you can leave a question (or ten), until Sunday, 27 November. After that deadline Judit will be sent all the questions. As soon as Judit has answered your questions the people at Cit and Crestbook get down to...
Tuesday, November 01, 2011 13:02
America's number one grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura is working with 13th World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov. Their collaboration started before the Tata Steel Tournament in Wijk aan Zee last January. This was reported in the latest issue of New in Chess Magazine, which reaches mailboxes today.
What his nearest colleagues already knew, and what has...
Friday, October 28, 2011 18:37
After he finished shared first with Ivan Salgado Lopez in Barcelona, Yasser Seirawan was interviewed by Ana Matnadze for El Butlletí d'Escacs, the official magazine of the Catalan Chess Federation. Matnadze generously shared the interview with other chess media, and we're happy to publish it here as well.
By Ana Matnadze
1. Hello Mr. Seirawan,...
Tuesday, September 06, 2011 6:21
He didn't. "My play always depends on how I’m feeling, and that simply changed when I lost the title. Perhaps I became more indifferent or liberated," he says in an interview at WhyChess.
Friday, August 05, 2011 3:06
Alexander Morozevich. Not too long ago he was the world's number two player, but the last two years he almost disappeared from the chess radar. Then, out of nothing he participated in the Higher League of the Russian Championship, and won it. After another excellent result in Biel, the grandmaster from Moscow, Russia sat down with us for a video...
Wednesday, August 03, 2011 3:03
On Sunday, after his last-round game in Dortmund against Hikaru Nakamura, we spoke to Vladimir Kramnik. The 10-time winner of the Sparkassen Chess Meeting lost that game after taking some risks. He explains how he experienced that game, compares this event with Kazan and reveals how he spent his time between that tournament and Dortmund. "It's a...
