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Entries Tagged as 'Interviews'
Nigel Short answers Kingpin’s questionnaire
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Interviews, Nigel Short, Nosher
first published in Kingpin 19 (Spring 1992)
What is your earliest memory of playing chess?
I remember playing my father in our first game in about 1971.
What is your most memorable game?
Beating Mikhail Gurefish [sic] in the last round of the Manila Interzonal.
What was your worst defeat?
I don’t know. I prefer to forget losses.
Which living [...]
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Pia Cramling
February 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Interviews, Pia Cramling
What is your earliest memory of playing chess?
As a child I admired my elder brother Dan very much. When he played football, I also went to the football club. He played table-tennis, and so did I. When he went fishing or camping with his friends, he let me join them. In 1973 a chess club [...]
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Bent Larsen
February 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Bent Larsen, Interviews
What is your earliest memory of playing chess?
I was six, and a boy two years older than me taught me the rules. In one of our first games he got king and two rooks against my bare king and forced me to the edge of the board.
What is your most memorable game?
Difficult to choose. Maybe [...]
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Peter Svidler
February 15th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Interviews, Peter Svidler
What is your earliest memory of playing chess?
I have quite a few, including the ones my parents have described to me when I grew up, but the very earliest is the recollection of beating some dude a year older than me when at the age of 7 I was taken to the Pioneer’s House. We [...]
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Profile: Dilip Patel
February 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Dilip Patel, Interviews
India’s latest star reveals the secrets of his preparation
Ever heard of Dilip Patel? Maybe not, but it’s guaranteed you will soon. 38-year-old Patel burst onto the scene with a bang recently, coming from nowhere to threaten the ranks of the Super GMs with a string of remarkable tournament performances around the world. There’s no doubt [...]
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Burmese GM Oo Kyaw Tun Nay
February 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Interviews, Oo Kyaw Tun Nay
What is your earliest memory of playing chess?
It was a few weeks ago. I was watching some other Burmese Grandmasters playing, and I said, what’s that horsey bit, and how does it move? They kindly showed me how all the bits moved, and next thing I knew, the ratings list came out and I was [...]
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Yasser Seirawan
February 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Interviews, Yasser Seirawan
What is your earliest memory of playing chess?
In the summer on 1972 my family moved from beautiful Virginia Beach Virginia to Seattle, Washington. That summer set all kinds of weather records for the most rainfall in recorded history and the kids were stuck in doors. Fortunately our upstairs neighbour David Chapman introduced me to the [...]
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Mickey Adams
February 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Interviews, Mickey Adams
What is your earliest memory of playing chess?
Discovering the brutal difference between stalemate and checkmate.
What is your most memorable game?
v. Ivanchuk, Terrassa 1991. Zugzwang occurred on an almost full board.
What was your worst defeat?
v. Tiviakov, PCA Interzonal, Groningen 1993. My position was not a pretty sight.
How do you relax?
Watching my koi carp.
What is your greatest [...]
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No Regrets: Boris Spassky at 60
November 27th, 2007 · No Comments · Boris Spassky, Interviews
Lev Khariton
The attractive countryside of Meudon is a 15-minute train ride from Paris. Here I came to interview Boris Spassky just three days before his 60th birthday. He reminiscences about his life, his chess career, his rivals and friends.
Dear Grandmaster, I should like, as many other chess players all over the world, to congratulate you [...]
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