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Chess deserves better : video interview with Garry Kasparov
Published on 15 October 2009

Match between Kasparov and Karpov in Valencia, Spain was a great success. According to Kasparov, "It's strange to see the popularity of this event, two old guys are playing and still it's the greatest show in the world of chess, something is dead wrong in chess. GM Robert Fontaine conducted this exclusive interview for Europe Echecs.
On October 7th Kasparov appeared on CNN news channel. Kasparov discussed about chess, computers and Russian politics in a four and half minutes interview. Video interview with Garry Kasparov.
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Interview with Mark Levitt, CEO of ChessCube
Written by content team 03 August 2009

Mark Levitt has won the SA chess champion four times. Two years ago, wanting to do something for himself that combined his love of chess and business, he founded ChessCube.com. ChessCube has over 6,00,000 registered users! He has founded or been an early investor in several businesses, including the magazine Chess in Southern Africa, online auction company SalesBid.com, mobile payphone company Saicom and search engine marketing company Clicks2Customers.
In this interview with Mark Levitt, he talks about the first online FIDE rated event, his transition from playing to businessman, success story of ChessCube website, strengths of Chesscube over Chessbase and ICC, popularity of chess in South Africa etc. Interesting interview with pictures.
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Interview with Wolfgang Kogler, sponsor of the Chess Classic Mainz
Written by content team 27 July 2009

Wolfgang Kogler is CEO of the ORDIX AG, 16 year sponsor of the Chess Classic Mainz and the company giving the Rapid Open its name. A successful cooperation, which will again bring hundreds of chess players from 27th July to 3rd August to Mainz to visit the Chess Classic and to play in the ORDIX Open, the world’s biggest and strongest chess tournament, which will take place 1st and 2nd August.
In this interview Wolfgang Kogler talks about parallels between chess and business, commitment, service and a high class product.
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Interview with GM Surya Ganguly
Written by content team 12 July 2009

GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly having FIDE rating of 2637 holds the record for the six consecutive Indian National Chess Championships. He played a crucial role working as second of Viswanathan Anand for the World Chess Championship against Kramnik. Some of his latest achievements are Asian continental chess championship, Parsvnath International Open Chess championship and Indian national chess championship.
In this interview with GM Surya Ganguly, he shares his experiences working with Viswanathan Anand. According to him, being with Anand changed his attitude completely, also it raised his confidence level to great heights. He talks about Anand – Topalov match, his daily routine, his father who is a famous astrologer and in the, tactfully deals with the question on his marriage plans. Interesting interview with pictures and games.
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Interview with WGM Natalia Pogonina
Written by content team 25 May 2009

Natalia Pogonina is a leading Russian chess Woman Grandmaster and member of the Russian chess Olympic team. Her current FIDE rating is over 2500.  She won the gold medal at the 1st International Mind Sports Games, some of her best performances includes, championship titles at Bykova Memorial, Rudenko memorial, Moscow Open.
She would like to see women chess players doing their best to match the best male players. According to her, we might see a female absolute world chess champion. Apart from Chess, Natalia is also widely known as a person of great physical and spiritual beauty.
In this interview with WGM Natalia Pogonina, she talks about her goals, chess and education, Chess Kamasutra book etc. According to her, it is possible to apply sex principles to chess. Interesting interview with lots of pictures.
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Aronian is a positional player. but he plays these positions very tactically: Anand
Written by content team 12 May 2009

Viswanathan Anand successfully defended his title of World Champion. This was followed by a prolonged break from tournaments. In this interview with Viswanathan Anandconducted by Harry Schaack, the World Champion reviews the events of the last half year and looks ahead to the GRENKELEASING Rapid World Championship.
Anand talks about Aronian's playing style, according to Anand, though he opens with 1.d4, he treats these positions like an e4-player. If things get complicated he always sets small traps for his opponents. He is a very gifted tactician, calculates excellently and hardly ever misses chances offered to him. All this makes him extremely dangerous.
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Chess needs Government support to be popular
Written by content team 11 May 2009

Faik Gasanov, one of the representatives of the elder generation in chess, the vice-president of the Chess Federation of Azerbaijan, an international arbiter. He is working as the deputy of the chief arbiter at the IV FIDE Grand Prix series tournament being played at Nalchik, Russia.
FIDE has conducted this interesting interview.
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Interview with GM Alisa Maric
Written by content team 30 March 2009

Alisa Maric was introduced to chess at the age of four, together with her 21 minutes younger twin sister Mirjana Maric. Alisa and Mirjana are the only twins with grandmaster titles in the history. She is considered to be the best Serbian female chess player ever and best American-born female chess player ever. She was World's U20 Women's Champion in 1985 and Yugoslavian Women's Champion in 1986. At 20, she was third ranked female player in the world!
Alisa Maric has done Ph.D in Economics and she's working as Marketing professor at Megatrend University in Belgrade. She is co-author of students book “Principles of marketing“. She is also a member of Presidential Board of Serbian Olympic Committee. Many times, she was anchor of TV chess shows such as “Alisa in the Wonderland of Chess”.
In this interview with Alisa Maric, she talks about managing sports as well as academics career, chess in schools, Judith Polgar, role of glamour in chess etc. In the end she has a special message for Indians! Interview with games and pictures.
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Interview with GM Mikhail Golubev
Written by content team 20 March 2009

Ukraine Grandmaster Mikhail Golubev is a fine Chess player, Author of the 3 popular chess books and a journalist. He is working with GM Alexander Baburin’s ChessToday.net since last 7.5 years. He is also involved in the main Ukrainian sport newspaper Komanda, he often contributes to the most popular chess site in Russian, chesspro.ru. He has worked as a regional correspondent for Kasparovchess.com. He was a member of the Board of the Association of Chess Professionals.
In this interview with GM Mikhail Golubev, he talks about his transition from playing to writing, his books, experiences working with Karpov, Korchnoi and Ponomariov, FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, FIDE and ACP.Interview with pictures.
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Women's World Chess Championship 08: Interview with Xu Yuhua, Svetlana Matveeva, Monika Socko and Anna Gasik
Written by content team 09 September 2008

Women's World Chess Championship 2008 is taking place from August 28 - September 18th in Nalchik, Russia. Askhat Mechiev interviewed few top chess women players who participated in the Women World Chess Championship. Women World Champion Xu Yuhua says, she committed a mistake in the end game and really sorry to leave. Svetlana Matveeva comments on her important victory over the incumbent World Champion Xu Yuhua Polish chess players Monika Socko and Anna Gasik who lost in the second round to Hoang Thanh Trang from Hungary and to Lilit Mkrtchian from Armenia were sorry to leave Nalchik probably more than any other player. Read the interviews of Xu Yuhua, Svetlana Matveeva, Monika Socko and Anna Gasik ....more >>
 
   
 
 
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