Anatoly Karpov Interview 2018 🍵 On Fischer, Kasparov, Carlsen, the FIDE Elections and More

[Music] so Anatolia thank you very much for visiting us here at the IP chef net studios great I'll have great to see you okay yeah well and so we were talking earlier and you mentioned that these days you play a lot more rapid a lot more blitz and I totally relate to that because to spend seven or eight hours hard tough game these days is is a challenge and but still you've had some tournament successes here you were telling me I don't blow so in those days because I have another duties but from time to time complaint elements and mostly reputable it's the tradition I play tournament of my name in France last clip of October determines date this tournament takes ten days and that that would be the purple trophy chemical structure here yes no I didn't want to ask you about that I was gonna ask you later but we talked about it now so how long did tournament going up and it seems like 2010 or something no no no no the first tournament took place in 1990 I think 1994 Oh a long time yes and this tournament got my name the initiative of organizers and French Federation Chess Federation because I played all tournaments I'm the only one who played all tournaments since 1994 and then this year I played already much ladies world champion we find in China and then I played in other two short competitions I won all them it's quite successful till now so let me ask you this of course I think when I looked at from Wikipedia it says that you were world number one for the second longest something like 102 months but in tournament victories international tournament victories I think you have just like a huge lead the last time I checked they said you had 160 but I'm thinking you must have a much greater total now nationally international victories I have now hundred eighty-five not counting national so Wow if you don't count national that mean - you're not counting like Russian Championships ah no no I'm in Union national national national and championship of my territory my city on that level so they started to count from the level of national master from 1966 but I am playing tournaments from 1958 so you know when they talk about great players in chess history one of the things that they look at is longitude II I mean of course there's the peak and there's also belonged activity and so of course 180 tournaments who or what number is close to second it must be a big guy so actually I don't know this is tactical of journalists but III think I am leading maybe this 50 or even more victories so no and of course this also talks to like you and Kasparov which is another story both of you when you became world champion unlike your predecessors you guys played month after month after month one or the other was playing and of course if we remember in the older days of Botvinnik and Smee Slav once someone got the title he didn't see him again and hardly befell on the arrow even two years trying to defend the title you know so so of course you guys totally changed that paradigm you know for the better I mean and then of course today we see our young players play all the time so you're still going strong still seem to be in good health still playing actively but unfortunately you know in the chest community we've lost a few grandmasters in recent years and if you don't mind you know maybe make a comment or summary your relations with some of them so I guess first and foremost in some ways with Viktor courts annoyed four times so be champion you played two very tough matches willing you know City don't forget don't forget 1974 yes it appeared to be world title match because I want that much and Fischer didn't appear and so I became world champion so you had a long history and now he recently passed away I think in 2016 in 2016 yes I him a few months before his death was that time he was feeling not so well so you saw a picture of a couple months before and yes I was I was for the opening ceremony in Surrey very strong international tournament I was invited as guest of honor and question I was invited as well and so I met him it was in handicap chair and so he didn't feel so well but but it doesn't mind in later years you had good relations because I know when we had your big birthday celebration at the famous hall in Rome where Zeta Oh portable for Peter that he was kind enough and he made a nice cape not congratulating even so I guess by that handy year relations with him were already you know know the import our relations and even which is not well known facts question I played yes for my team in Russian team championship he played for South oral team and he was the only foreigner who played for the team all the rest we had we had their masters from South world a province actually burns my native province and question it was the only one who came from outside ok and so yeah long history with courts no he was a great fighter you mentioned I think in our mastery in your master class that he was one of the great counter attackers of all time and not just to make a draw but he was trying for the full point no he was grabbing bones boys and punks and he tried to defense and then this extra material he won many games like this so in my given fest history just to put him in perspective I had always considered that probably occupy Rubinstein was probably the greatest player not to become world champion but I guess one could also make a argument that fortunately would be up there in the very short list as well yes people and he was one of the biggest fighters and I could see who played all this for being bent Larsen both time go swimming unfortunately he passed away as well no but also with bent I don't think he reached well he he lost the match to Fisher report and then after that how far did he ever know before she lost much he lost much this pesky but that was on the very highest level on the very high level now speaking of Spassky he's moving on a date and how's his health I don't see him playing so much these days all right Eve had some strokes and but now he's recovering even his I see he can speak now because for a short time he couldn't speak normally but now he can speak mm-hmm okay and another player I wanted to ask you about was actually a friend of mine when I was very young came to New York and but a bit of a how would you describe interesting and unique personality is father will Lombardi of course yeah yeah he recently yeah he looked you know I was in very good terms with him since long time and I understand you guys used to play back and yes we played backgammon and we discussed sit and chess chess tournaments and of course just history he was he was interesting person not easy but I always had good relations with him no and he was actually a heart a very kind person and he had very good understanding of chess I think it which is where I believe because like domination type themes and these things are still decent not by fortune he assisted goodness yes sir in my Simeon Spassky yes Fischer recognizes as we say here in the NBA a game recognizes game and so and then I think one other player force and another interesting exciting character that you probably know for many many years you know mr. six-time Walter brown of course passed away recently and yeah he had many battles with him and he very exciting yes we met when he was living in Australia he escaped from the United States because of Vietnamese war and then later he came back and so I saw him in California in San Francisco and then we had plans to play much in Las Vegas unfortunately it didn't happen but so this was the problem of Soviet to you it organizes in Las Vegas and Walter they couldn't understand that that time we didn't have open passports and I should get permission to leave the country and so they were calling me like okay after two weeks we can organize blitz much but two weeks was absolutely impossible and then on the third time I said no no I must know in advance maybe as minimum two months then I can I can be ready for the match otherwise so Weber and very good terms also with Walter I remember the first tournament we played not Philly not the first but the first tournament we they had time together in Amsterdam in 1976 it was a billion tournament for professor ever and this was tournament of four players and actually at that time he played in in Mullane and not nowadays so we organized chess tournaments in different mediums but that time it was unique in Amsterdam we played in museum should be very nice yeah now in recent times they had the candidates in this or bus station or railway station in Germany this was very very very best very website yeah before we leave these players I think mail we can take a look at Fischer and so a couple of questions there and first question would be you know and I'd like to discuss the same about Kasparov and Carlsen afterwards if you don't mind but first off what made fish are so good and of course relative to his peers he was you know much better machi she was fantastic hard worker and he made everything by himself and so he understood chess very well-heeled chess theory deep and well he made his own analysis and he was big fighter he played four in each game and that time it was not so often she Mary member world champions especially patrician he was ready to make the draw almost black you know especially with black yes and even even I didn't see but people told me that in the tournament after drawing of lots so patrician was making his own on how to say yeah projection projections yes and so he was putting okay with this with this player and make draw with this player try to lean on everything for sure yeah before you can shoot the round of golf okay I'll get a nine yeah a very good no and so then the next question of course you know we can talk about this now a few years after the match or even shortly after the match didn't take place if you player started noticing you started playing like night at 3 on the first move and maybe d4 and some players speculated maybe you were looking to kind of neutralize Fischer's tremendous charm shouldn't drive or sharp position and so that brings to mind what do you think it would have taken to beat a player like Fischer no I'm not preparation and I was ready to place out variations in Sicilian defense and the I realized or I understood that without this variation I could lose advantage of light white pieces and fry prepare the things but in general later on I felt that I I can bat control situation the chessboard is deeper than before easy for sometimes failure you enter two tabs opening preparation in home preparation and then but is different so new you'll have better and positional control and now I totally agree with that because sometimes I found as well they wanna play it for you reach certain positions especially like in the Sicilian where you have to play a moon you have to play f5 at just the right moment Orly 5 and my moment passes and then and then you'll be no lose yellow and whereas with d4 sometimes ok you can build maybe build and it's not you know necessarily the end of the world is that that exact moment you don't play the break and so no it's you actually not not only this but for instance when you plug is a bit player then then you don't want to to play first variation because at home especially now these computers you can make preparation then you have no choice during the game and that's why I don't play first variations but also is the strong player you have the same idea that so somebody can can use computer and make longer variation long general it is a nude you do and then then you just move it's not the other thing too sometimes if you plain low-rated players and you play a fourth variation even though they don't see everything in advance but move by move they kind of stumble their way through it and then they find a way to almost save the game so yes red and actually Kasparov touched on that is that Bob Benny really had to work with him to making become patient and just kind of let the guy have a chance to play Gary you you're like forcing things too much you know I think I'm given the guy a chance to show his true ability yes yes whereas friends you've always from the get-go you've always been very patient even when you're very young he had very long in games and so forth you know so and then also I remember in after Fischer 20 years later played and I kind of like he sort of played Spassky 20 years later cuz kind of a known subject and Fischer had tremendous fear of losing and so forth and you did point out look Bobby played well the first couple of games and he did win the match and he did win ten games but he also lost five games and so I think a little bit and looking at those five games that he lost you could see a little bit of where Fischer might have been vulnerable what do you think no but you you talk about nineteen ninety two twenty years past no that time unfortunately they I think they played only one game when both were in good shape otherwise Fischer was losing without too much resistance and Spassky more often entered in such situation but if we talk about 72 that much famous match which was one of the most historical moment in chess so even that much they played on the highest level maybe how many 12 games of that match and then later they very exhausted both where exhausted and then they made they made mistakes and so each game almost ish not maybe second game could have different results yeah and of course by the time you reach that stage of the match Fischer had a huge lead you know so no I don't he he won was 21 games yes plus he had +4 but he missed experience what I had even my match is let's say it's come ski I wanted before the schedule let's say but still it was fight in any game then you have big lead but when you have fights in each game so you can be in your notes but also in a match I think we've seen this a few times you mentioned match we came to be great example on-the-job training if you will we're the weaker younger player starts to learn and the second half of the match Kamsky almost tailed his own that was like close to even or something I mean you got a big lead early and then and so getting lessons right no yeah on-the-job training he started getting better and better and learning you know yeah so similar type situation yeah so that's one one thing with a really long match you know is that the younger player starts to you know oh yeah yes starts throwing in nerves more energy and of course when you play long match then a young player has advantage okay so a couple of the same questions regarding Kasparov now of course in much later in his career and he's retired a couple times I guess yes plays Blitzen rapid and it seems that the game has changed a bit on him so first off 15 years rated number ranked number one and you guys had so many matches for the World Championship and so what would you say were his real strengths in terms of chess no computers so he was a first for exploit this new and technologies inches and then he had big advantage in chess openings but later on she lost disadvantage in so this I believe was very unpleasant for him because now there is even this middle level level grandmasters she is on the same level of of open knowledge so but he she used to play with the big advantage from the beginning at home and now if he doesn't get it and and of course he has lost energy probably nervous system is not so stable like it was before and his style required required a lot of forces and a lot of energy I mean it yeah and so but it's so more difficult because he is fifty-five already so the reason I'm communicational young well ironically enough I actually find like well with myself for example still play blitz at a high level because you're not sitting there for five or six hours with all that nervous energy so I still find by blitz probably at a much higher level now than like if I had to play long ruling tournament games you know yeah might happen it and so for you like you play blitz you play active chess and pretty much the same of Gary now he plays he plays active chess from what I've seen and and that's interesting so now in terms of weakness what it would take to beat him well I guess we saw the match with kramnik was the first human you know to beat him in a match and then you beat him in a short match in 2002 and so in terms of his weakness and what it would or what did you kind of feel were his weakness weak areas you know this individual for me it would be weakness for another it would be strong strong side because when you when you compare styles and strength so the players and this all is individual what would with Gary I think one one of those weakness was also a string tremendous conference no this is taken ops a cold yeah yeah preparation but I think I was I was my strong in positional play if he was stronger than me in tactics maybe he could feel better initiative he could sacrifice material due to obtain initiative and I think I was stronger in endings and so they were absolutely different in this town you know so now what about Magnus because when you live in an era whoever the world camp in almost always not not always I mean there are few cases in chess history like say for example a battalion I don't think anyone still believe that our Ville is necessarily better than a yakin or yet can be kappa block and some people had questions you know that you know he doesn't get a rematch but by and large when we live in an era where someone is so dominant they seem invincible at the time so now to some degree we have an era where Magnus Carlson's many world champion for a number of years since I guess 2013 report him and on whose and that's a little different than like when Botvinnik was world champion but Vinick even wrote chapter first among equals well okay he was probably first yes yeah and I don't think the others were quite quite as equal but nonetheless you didn't feel that huge gap like when bob eney played and then during the period where he was world champion he wasn't like overwhelmingly dominant now Magnus on the other hand has showed some domination and he has managed to win the world championship matches so what do you think it would take well first off what he thinks of strings um I believe he is the strongest now but I don't like how he played the last of all title might read instead I can and I think he deserves to lose that much but today in didn't yield chances he he got at the end of the match then he she continues like this he can lose to kill Ronnie people like i I think - stronger and he has better chances in this match but if he doesn't take it seriously then any result can be great one one thing I've noticed sometimes with these matches 1012 games a lot of times theoretical preparation because the guy that wins a game or two it's usually a result of some kind of novels for example if you look at the cast Robin on match that was played at the top of the World Trade Center Kasparov won a couple of key games like a rule apes' dragon Sicilian and those kind of catapulted into victory when we had a whole bunch of drawers and so to me of the younger generation Viviano seems to have the one player like if we look at that fantastic st. Louis result he had that potentially has enough depth of opening preparation where it could possibly cause problem but you know yeah this is this is strong part of his style and his preparation and Carson doesn't have such deep knowledge in the openings but Carson is the more stable and he he plays better tweets yes Oh bleats than kara wanna even Quran wrote last lap tournaments good form but still I believe Kerrigan hazard when Carson pass advantage in in this type of chess but Carolyn through the series and he knows how to prepare we both have connection to Soviet chef school because Carson had very good that's a trainer and friends singing understand who played many Soviet players in the system he played in a Soviet Union and Khurana had training from Soviet Union always so I'm sorry played in our our tournaments and so both know how to how to prepare and what is the best preparation but if it's computers you have some some special forms new new one but still the main preparation system is remaining the same no and that also goes back to what we talked about before a little bit about preparation today seems a bit different in the 90s Kasparov find some new opening idea some new attacking formation and he'd get a big big plus like point seven point eight right out of the opening after 15 or 20 moves and then he carried on to a culminating attack whereas today it seems like a lot of the top players you know they when they look at their opening preparation it's more about getting positions they're comfortable in you know and I see this time and time with Magnussen to some degree Carlson's play relies a lot on intuition and I think Kasparov even comparing to you know a younger version of Karpov and in terms of getting position where it's not real clear what the plans are you have a lot of choices are planned and just kind of giving the opponent enough time to you know find the wrong way you know yes yes my I I agree but also I think Carson can play I can can play no variations without opening advantage and karana Garron seems to be like Kasparov he likes to know the system fee she will meet during the game and everybody prefers to have studying advantage but cousin is not so much dependent yeah he seems more interested well actually very interesting and maybe one game we'll look at it is this game that they had at alpha box recently they played early in the tournament Magnus is white he got a position where he's like okay if I was black I would be feeling this is good this was comfortable go with white do I really have any invented here I don't know and then if he moves later it seemed papiano didn't make the most of his chances and started to drift and kind of went wrong and lost and so papiano lost her individual game but then he did very well for at the end and still managed to win the tournament but but yeah I think that kind of speaks to your point and then we saw another game that Fabiana lost to get carjacked and we're quite okay in the open in the petrol and then he allowed this exchange sacrifice in a situation where carjacked and had to win and so he seems a little yes like he can occasionally kind of go a drift is it's not known known territory for him yeah no so now besides Fabiano and just as an aside America this is a bright moment in American fest where you know we won the Olympia we had two wins young stars rated in the top ten this hasn't happened since 1994 a long form time for America to have three top ten players yeah and a very very strong team yeah I remember okay the strongest team was country service playing but mostly because Fisher dominated that time well the old Henry well yes do you want one Kasparov on - you had tall I think he had Smith laughs and who else he had no no not only when Kasparov game but we focused para I think one of the strongest team we had in Nissan input and then 1974 we had five world champions in the team yeah no no the six over the six both could me and I think that moment but see he was very strong he was one of the Venus of Soviet champions no but for America this team that we had with these three players was pretty fantastic yes yeah first a very young so they still have you know I think now United States has the the strongest team in the world well only because Russia got blowed up in the 13 yes of course we feel it because generally you had the best players in Russian Republic in frame of Soviet Union but still we had culled from lot kids from Estonia then we had to Crane and clear strong Ukrainian players Armenia was strong and now as a by Janis trunk yeah of course when you put together all this all these countries it's very strong and very powerful even now yeah so you mentioned carjacking he was very close to qualifying again and and then I have to say you know as American he is Russian he wins a championship and don't see a whole lot of him in the West so force Fabiano from a marketing perspective of chess in our country would be great but carjacking nonetheless seems to be very strong very positionally based has good understanding a strategy fantastic in gameplay and so it looked to me like he will be a perpetual challenger for years to come yes and for a long time already expected him to be one of the main candidate for row title but I think him is something might be six seven years ago because he was growing up very very fast but at that moment at the age of 18 19 he didn't speed up but now he yes yeah no he is very strong and so he will be permanently yeah don't see him so much here sorry in the West but from what I read family man very decent very low-profile very modest you know are those kind of your insights into his personality and we don't see too much coming here he is nice person I have very good relations with him and from time to time he play blitz games friendly games but not open with closed but and we are friends for many years I think the good good relations since now Mexican trip and it was like what 10 years ago oh but also with project and we're talking about someone what is he like funny now if he is 27 or 28 but what people don't realize is he in Magnus Carlsen were among the youngest grandmasters ever in the world I mean he was like yes yes ridiculous yes 14 years old or something you know 13 years 10 months something ridiculous enough yeah so clearly Talent no no question now speaking of which who else do you see on the horizon like for example in our country we have a couple of young kids a wonder lean or something and I listen to the kid he's like 13 years old but he's like explaining things like amazingly don't hand up so do you see any other talents on the horizon you know that potentially could be I don't fall so so um so closed and the young talents might be in my country but but new countries China is getting strong of course so they took leadership in ladies just long time ago I think si Yoon became world champion in 1985 I think yes and now reigning world champion is Chinese but in the math the the getting stronger stronger and even they they could lean on him pet well they're in wing now his cracked like the top 15 or something yeah yeah and if you look at the numbers like say you take the top 200 feed a rated players in the world a large percentage sure from India the influence of an on course and from China you know and then yeah you and your country sprinkle on the chest map well you know in terms of that someone once asked Bill Gates you know what company are you afraid of he's like the companies that exist none the guy I'm afraid of is the 10 year old kid working in his basement by himself that is a guy could threaten our future you know and so it so it does with chess where the players are getting fantastic at younger and younger ages because you know the tools are so much better yes information is my ki jiye to get and of course your save time so Anatoly we're not going to talk about Putin Trump politics if you don't mind but chess politics and it's interesting it comes in a year when we're gonna have another Libya and a world championship I guess and so so right now in feeding you yourself ran in 2010 and Magnus Carlsen even supported you and so forth yeah and so we have a year with feed a elections at looking at the feed a website or some such new service I saw macropolis got nominated by 64 different Federation's and then you have Arkady I'm kinda delicious he got nominated by like maybe 12 and then of course Nigel short another exciting character a friend of ours but an exciting person yeah very outspoken you know yeah yeah a little controversial sometimes I think he had four Federation's nominate so I guess a couple of questions one is macropolis some syllogism and I've left and macropolis was kind of de facto from what I gathered kind of quasi running things is he just an extension of alumina or what do you thought there no nobody knows because when person takes lead then he can become different of course it was one scene before one team before and then I don't think metropolis will be for a long time nowadays in this in this campaign metropolis probably has better chunky because he is better connected with different federations specially small Federation's and they have majority drink drink campaign and but still still work well she is quite a tiff now he has chances he has new ideas and I think financially Federation would be more healthy with the coalition is macropolis but this is not a story well I do not the team that if elected each left at the number of grandmasters I think you know to be honest II yes but politically just from the chief point of view politically yeah a metropolis is stronger he has strong the team but Berkeley has no professional team more chess players professional chess players can you give us a little side into his background because he is not a familiar figure in my years in West so first of all from chief from chess family his father was a journalist his father was arbiter chess arbiter but in the childhood were college didn't show interest to chest and he she started to organize something when his father passed away so as a memory for his father and then he he made chess chess school for kids in in Moscow and then she she was involved in Charlie Mullins tournament in Moscow and handled now he has some projects about about developing youth and school chess in the world [Music] professionally I don't know how deep he understands the problems what we have in our championship system but I think he could have to make changes and actually our problem started with not well thought experiments Mitchell I'm Jennifer brought two to the chest roll you talked about in the language and you want to switch away from this this knockout system knockout system then very short matches for both title which was not not very clever but at that time in engine F was fighting with the prestige and the strengths of low champions and he he came to feed as a present and he thought that he would be like Antonio Samaranch con Antonio Samaranch in Olympic Committee like the god no but in chess he realized well champion is much more important and world champion has much more influence and so in Jennifer started to destroy the situation and he wanted to be what in chess world unfortunately didn't it didn't happen but he he destroyed a lot you know on this on this direction and fortunately he will be out so no I I cannot say I can claim that everything what he had done was wrong or negative but he see them it's just Jeff for a long time now let me ask you that so years ago we had a presidential election in our country where the Democrats you know 40 plus percent and the Republicans had 40 plus percent and so one billionaire Ross Perot from Dallas I think decided I'm gonna run for president now every month I didn't I didn't I didn't know I'm great I get about 10 through 12 percent and so he actually even though he was so far but on the other kind of became the swing vote if you will okay yeah yeah tell us all his supporters to go there and so in some ways ironically enough and so now you said that well Nigel short may possibly be in this situation because I see Nigel is way behind the others nobody believes Nigel has a realistic chance of winning but it's very outspoken charismatic and some people well I think even the USS Federation has Ruth herring on this ticket and so there's actually yeah fighting the boat point nobody you know situation is quite strange because in the ticket of micro pools they have mountain Payne who is delegate of British Federation for for the Congress and the Nigel short is candidate for president so yeah this is very unusual as well yes so yeah it is strange but do you think it is even possible that Arkady and short read garner enough support between them to actually know when the election no I don't think that shirt has a possibility to send his votes to one another camp and I I believe that the record shows chances I don't think anybody can win on the first on in the first round of elections but I think your question is only if the gap will be very very full if the restrainer yes narrow narrow yes if macropolis can achieve advantage of 25 30 volts and then know the right sentence if if all the words of shorts woman big majority would join work yeah but you know this one the small countries yesterday they don't believe if you have 25 and let's say short you'll have 35 it means just to naturalize this gap a 30 vote should go to him in favor of the earthquakes and only 5 to Metropolis yeah but small countries they still want to join the winning camp yeah so and we face that actually trying to get our transportation support you in 2010 as they were worried about reprisals in the event that they supported you and then you didn't win no that was one of the challenges that we had yeah and of course that brings mine one of the issues about the whole CDA election system one country one vote which sounds very democratic but then you're talking about countries that are powerhouses like China India Russia the u.s. their vote is the same as some island in the Pacific that maybe has 10 members in the Federation yeah that play chess yeah yeah and so this is a bit of a no-no might be my business this is a time to make to make something like in the United Nations Security Council I don't talk about all all projects but let's say a professional chess row championship titles mint and ladies so probably should be decided by the as I think in Federation I think in bicycle they they decide on the Federation's who have represented on the certain level if you don't have strong bicycle apartment then then okay you must grow somebody and then you participate and so probably in chess it could be considered like this okay so if you don't mind we'll move on to politics because in a few months we didn't know what happened right yeah yeah and then I would like to ask you listen to humans one and a half months so now if you don't mind I'd like to ask you to fun questions open yeah if you had it if we had a time machine you could go back for three days or week any time in history which chess player would you like to spend time with and go back to visit Uncas no July I'm not almost all symptoms whom I had chance to me she was staying it's Alaska relationship oblong Kathy passed away when I was born but from death from dead rope my dear Alaska yes no but actually all four all four would be very nice Russian one let's see one consideration relation another two Ivanka and staying it's to the first bill simply no very different personnel absolutely different yeah but very anything yes yeah I know it's not only them but they Paul Morphy know pretty bad yes and then also we we talked about on various Philidor yes Philip glorious yes yeah okay so you didn't give us a name but okay I understand okay so now the same question if you could go back in time and meet anyone now we're not going to talk about women because I don't want to get you in trouble with your beautiful wife no even okay but if you could meet any non-stress player and spend a few days with them who would you like to meet no no no I can give quick answer what's my legend in my life and much so many leaders and the presidents even in the United States my much famous actress and even I had chance to meet Salvador Dali a long time ago for almost 40 years ago the many famous actors and of course I met all famous Russians or Soviets of my time is in meeting some study composers my and interesting you know and one of these guys had incredible creativity but again that's back to chest yes yeah break the chest but no actually they took different areas of mankind activities I'm at all Russian customer you call astronauts yeah we call Cosmo no I didn't meet only Yuri Gagarin the first astronaut of the planets but of course I was very young when he passed away he had plane crash accident but older all the other summers and even with many of them I was in friendly friendly terms yeah although by lord I think for space travel in one very young energetic people so mail for the million dollar question for our HSN viewers are you ready okay so in this day and age you've got so many tools so many online playing sites databases and computers so we want to limit it to what are the three most important things let's say your club player you play a few tournament you're like say 1200 1800 but you'd really like to get better chess can you give us like three things that you think they should really focus and concentrate and spend their time energy and effort on no I think the best ways out to make progress and just to have good close friends with whom you can play and analyze together right it happened in my life so this is one one of the key you can do rock yourself but better with friend and then second second take take serious just serious and analyze your own games just think don't repeat your mistakes and then to to study preparation and to understand how to prepare and this and then not not the last you must be confident in your strengths when you start tournament if you believe you are not the strongest you can attain 10 euros now that's great thank you so much for spending time with us and I appreciate your openness and willingness answer so many questions and I'm sure they're people that why he didn't ask this question why I didn't ask that question but they can feel free to send them in and we'll try to get him some answers yeah thank you yeah good luck to everybody [Music] you [Music]

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Length: 50min 1sec (3001 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 13 2018