Interview in "the country" Magnus Carlsen:
Question. What IQ do you have?
Response. No idea. I do not know. It can mean a nasty surprise.
P. How do you say that? At 19, head of global elranking chess. It must be incredibly intelligent.
R. Indeed that would be awful. Of course it is important that a chess player knows concentrate well, but can also be a burden to be too clever. I am convinced that the Englishman John Nunn was never world champion because he was too smart to be.
P. It takes a year collaborating with Gary ...

TIME magazine interview translated by ajedrez32.com:
At age 13, was the youngest grandmaster in history. A few years later, he surpassed the world's best players. And this January 1, at 19 years old Norwegian Magnus Carlsen will officially become the youngest person in history to win first place in the elo rating. TIME met the great master in a tournament in London to investigate the mind of a chess genius.
Q: When people find out ...

The World Cup of Chess FIDE held in Khanty-Mansiysk (Siberia) between November 20 and December 15, 2009. This is a preliminary competition to seven rounds, with six mini duels (2 games) in which the winner qualifies for the next round. The final will consist of a four games. The time control is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with 30 seconds increment ...

Interview with Alexander Grischuk FIDE
Alexander Grischuk: "Jakovenko knew all my secrets!"
The fate played a trick on the Russian player Alexander Grischuk: after passing his friend Vladislav Tkachiev in the second heat, the great French master said in the press conference: "My friend Sasha (= Grischuk) knew all my secrets" . Grischuk was himself who had the bad luck that his opponent Dmitry Jakovenko knew all their secrets.

Grischuk: The match against Dmitry was not going very well from the start of the game. I could not reach ...

By Juan Antonio Montero
The play "Lost in Buenos Aires" has led to considerable research on Capablanca and Alekhine, the Buenos Aires-twenties, about chess itself ... Why embarked on the difficult task of writing this novel?
The idea of ​​this novel, I came from a Cuban friend who is an expert chess player. It is a well known that the name of Jose Raul Capablanca arouses great interest in many people throughout the world. And the ...

Oinschuk Alexander: "I propose to give each chess player a pager"
American Grandmaster Alexander Onischuk has their personal opinion of what happened to the great masters of China, Wang Yue and Li Chao. Recall the situation: they arrived two minutes late in the second game of the playoffs. According to the regulations of the tournament, his games had to be missing.
Onischuk: I was very disappointed with the situation created by the Chinese players. In my opinion, many things have been resolved inadequately. We all know the rules: that is late, ...

The World Cup of Chess FIDE held in Khanty-Mansiysk (Siberia) between November 20 and December 15, 2009. This is a preliminary competition to seven rounds, with six mini duels (2 games) in which the winner qualifies for the next round. The final will consist of a four games. The time control is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with 30 seconds increment ...