LatestChess :- How is the chess scenario
in Ukraine? What do you think to be done to make Chess more popular?
GM
Mikhail Golubev :-
Well, I think that in this case the economy goes
first. Ukraine is a developing country. Not only chess, but all sports with a
possible exception of football (soccer) experience inadequate sponsorship. But
the situation in our economy and in chess is better than it was ten years ago. I
think that the financial crisis, consequences of which are terribly hard in
Ukraine, would not undermine all what was achieved. Because the mentality of
Ukrainians who are still mainly post-Soviet people gradually adopts to the
modern conditions. Unfortunately it cannot work faster because the capitalism
was firmly forgotten in the USSR, several generations have changed during the
USSR era.
the mentality of
Ukrainians gradually adopts to the modern conditions...
LatestChess :- What are your future plans?
What would you like to achieve in near future?
GM Mikhail Golubev :-
Well, in the near future I would like to reach a
higher level of harmony in my professional life. I am doing various things in
chess, and in the past I had experiences with almost any kind of the chess work
(in the 1980s I worked as arbiter of several hundreds postal tournaments, just
for example), but at some point I will have to concentrate on the fewer number
of directions.
I would like to reach a
higher level of harmony in my professional life...
Sometimes there are things that you think someone
else should do, but you see that no one is doing it, or not enough is done, and
then you do it by yourself because you think that it is important. I practically
never saw nice websites for those who may wish to learn how to play chess from
the complete zero level. Sites, I underline that, which are designed primarily
for the modern young people. With jumping "Gorillaz" on the every page, I do not
know. There are enough or more than enough sites for those who are playing chess
already. But is not the future the most important? Perhaps, I should investigate
the matter deeper.
I practically never saw
nice websites for those who may wish to learn how to play chess from the
complete zero level...
Personally, I prefer, for example, to analyse
some Fischer Attack game with a novelty around the move 20. I like to annotate
games. Also to annotate them in the "Informator style", without any words - in
such way I annotated games for Informator and New in Chess in the pre-computer
era. With some ideas and, not too often, decent quality. But I am afraid that
nowadays it is possible to teach monkey how to push a few buttons inside the
Rybka or Fritz interface, and the result will be of the better quality than
these old notes of mine... I see that explaining computer’s variations becomes a
larger and larger part of the annotator’s work. This trend is not new, but it
started to really disturb me only recently, right now I am still not sure what
to do about that. Nothing dramatic, in any case.
I see that explaining
computer’s variations becomes a larger and larger part of the annotator’s
work...
LatestChess :- Thanks Mikhail. It's been
good talking to you. Could you share your blog url or email address with our
readers?
GM
Mikhail Golubev :-
Thank you for your questions. My personal web page
is
http://www.geocities.com/mikhail_golubev/ and the email address is
placed there on the top of the page.
