Anish Giri: 'People are taking the World Champion title too seriously'
Dutch no. 1 Anish Giri was in fine form when he played Banter Blitz yesterday, both with his blitz chess – he won all 16 games against chess24 users – and with his banter, where topics ranged from humour in chess to the likely future World Chess Champion and whether the title still matters. It’s “a golden era of Banter Blitz”, as Anish said, and today, to mark chess24’s 7th Birthday, we’ve got Hand and Brain shows with Radjabov & Giri and Nepomniachtchi & Dubov, as well as a special show with chess24’s own Jan Gustafsson and Laurent Fressinet.
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Anish Giri: “The tournament ended surprisingly chaotically”
In a big interview for matchtv.ru, Anish Giri talks about the moment the Candidates Tournament stopped while he was busy preparing to play Ian Nepomniachtchi in just four hours’ time - a scramble to book flights and pack bags fol...
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Alekseenko: “The Candidates wild card should be abolished”
22-year-old Russian Kirill Alekseenko is the clear outsider for the Candidates Tournament that starts in Yekaterinburg in just over one month’s time. While the other players are established Top 15 stars he’s currently live-rated jus...
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Aronian: "I’m more talented, but some people push harder"
Levon Aronian was spending a lot of time in airports today and decided to answer questions from his followers on Instagram. “The Chess Prophet”, as he currently styles himself there, provided some predictably entertaining but also s...
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Nakamura on a tough year, Fortnite, Choker & more
Hikaru Nakamura is the reigning US Chess Champion and the blitz world no. 1, but in an exclusive interview with Jan Gustafsson he talks about “my worst year as a professional by far”. He explains what went wrong and how he’s been...
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Kramnik: “I never considered myself a genius”
Although Vladimir Kramnik retired from classical chess in January he returned to action in rapid chess this summer to play the likes of Vishy Anand, Peter Svidler and Anish Giri in the Levitov Chess Week in Amsterdam. Boris Gelfa...
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Vitiugov: “The knockout system is treacherous”
Nikita Vitiugov beat Sergey Karjakin and Wesley So in Khanty Mansiysk, but his Armageddon loss to Yu Yangyi may end up being the most memorable moment of the 2019 FIDE World Cup. His devastation was obvious, and in an interview ...
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Dorfman: The real talent is the ability to work hard
Grandmaster Iossif Dorfman, a USSR and French Chess Champion, talks to Joachim Iglesias about chess life in the Soviet Union, seconding Garry Kasparov for four World Championship matches, coaching the 9-year-old Etienne Bacrot, n...
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MVL on being Carlsen's no. 1 rival in blitz
French no. 1 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave finished joint second in the Côte d'Ivoire Grand Chess Tour, while winning the blitz section, and on his return home he gave an interview to chess24’s French site on his results, his rivalry wi...
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Giri: I treat myself as an idiot till proven otherwise
Anish Giri’s victory in the Shenzhen Masters finally put to rest any lingering claims that he’d never won a supertournament, and in an 80-minute interview with Jan Gustafsson the world no. 4 talks about the twists and turns of the...
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Carlsen: “My opponent is an idiot till proven otherwise!”
World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen has been in the form of his life this year, taking his live rating to 2875.4 by winning the Tata Steel Masters, Shamkir Chess and the GRENKE Chess Classic in phenomenal style. In an over one-ho...
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