GM Boris Gulko, the only player to win both USSR and USA chess championships, gave an interview for Sports Daily (in Russian), in which he talks about his support to Viktor Korchnoi’s family, difficulties to leave Soviet Union and other topics.
On the mention of Garry Kasparov, he said: “Garry is talented person, but he reminds me of Taras Bulba. He ruins everything he starts.”
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A team of three grandmasters and a 5-year-old boy named Stephen Fanning won the annual amateur team championships in style.
If a computer played perfectly, could any human hope to achieve a draw?
The relationship of the late former world chess champion Bobby Fischer to the current Brooklyn Chess Club in Canarsie is complex.
In chess, as in life, the elders deserve a little respect. The game’s legends may not regularly face the rigors of tournament play, but they can still put on a good show.
At the Corus international tournament in the Netherlands only Viswanathan Anand registered a plus score.
An ugly situation arose at the Corus International tournament when Ivan Cheparinov of Bulgaria refused to shake the hand of Nigel Short of England before their match.
Even in a chess world accustomed to odd characters like Bobby Fischer, the Brooklynite who became world champion and then an unstable recluse, Gata Kamsky has always been an object of curiosity.
Before the anti-American and anti-Semitic ravings and his complicated relationship to the cloistered world of chess, Bobby Fischer was just another young New Yorker on the make.
