“The weak-willed don’t become top chess players”
Mark Glukovsky, editor of 64, the Russian equivalent of New in Chess, responded in a controversial but compulsively readable style to the questions…
Karpov on the Pozner show
Anatoly Karpov gave an almost hour-long interview on Russian prime-time television, discussing his candicacy for the position of FIDE President,…
Spassky: “I liked that the rook moved in straight lines and ate everything.”
Boris Spassky interviews nowadays always make a nice change of pace, though this one is particularly offbeat - given to…
Kasparov on ending his work with Carlsen
While Garry Kasparov was in Georgia he gave an interview which extratime.az claim is the first to the Azerbaijan media in…
Gashimov at Crestbook
Vugar Gashimov recently gave an interesting interview at Crestbook. He goes into detail on what happened at the end of the…
Chesspro game-of-the-month scandal? :)
The voting in Chesspro's January game of the month was unusual enough to invite tongue-in-cheek comparison to a voting scandal…
Final interviews from Linares
Vasiliev's final report on Linares 2010 was a bumper round-up of interviews with the participants, including Topalov's pyramid theory of why…
Online game commentary ends on cosmic note
In the Topalov-Aronian game at Linares Topalov missed a beautiful, hard-to-see but not hard-to-calculate, combination. His previous good luck combined with Aronian's previous…
“Topalov won the game in the best traditions of Bareev’s favourite chess player”
Grischuk's second at Linares, Khismatullin, made this cryptic comment at the end of his description of Grischuk's loss to Topalov.…
Aronian and the Benoni
In the early rounds of Linares Aronian had promising positions but failed to collect any full points. That didn't stop…