Kramnik: “Intellectual effort gives me enormous pleasure”
Vladimir Kramnik has had a wildly uneven 2013, swinging from the highs of the Candidates Tournament and Dortmund to an…
Vladimir Kramnik on the climax of the Anand-Gelfand match
Few know more about the tension of the final stages of a World Championship match than ex-World Champion Vladimir Kramnik,…
Anand’s WhyChess interview
After last year's Tal Memorial, where Viswanathan Anand drew all nine games, he gave a long and fascinating interview to Vlad Tkachiev. Topics…
Anish Giri: The one who got away
Anish Giri is currently the world’s most promising junior, but although he now represents the Netherlands he started his chess…
Ilyumzhinov on the London Candidates and Grand Prix
In an interview with Sport Express, FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has explained the decision to hold the next Candidates Tournament…
Averbakh: “History is written by the victors”
Yuri Averbakh, the world's oldest grandmaster, celebrated his 90th birthday on February 8th this year. To mark the occasion he…
Ivanchuk: “I could have become a writer”
Vassily Ivanchuk's recent interview with the Ukrainian daily newspaper "Den" isn't your standard chess interview. In fact, Ivanchuk doesn't talk about current chess…
Karpov, Kramnik and Kasparov on Spassky
To mark the 75th birthday yesterday of Boris Spassky, the Tenth World Chess Champion, the Russian Chess Federation website has published…
Spassky: “I knew the openings badly”
Boris Spassky, the Tenth World Chess Champion, today turned 75. In a long interview he talked about his introduction to…
Kramnik: Tseshkovsky “loved chess too much”
Vitaly Tseshkovsky, who died on the 24th December, coached the young Kramnik in the years when he broke into the World…