Interview with Mr D V Sundar, Vice President, FIDE & Member of Appeals Committee, FIDE World Candidates Tournament 2014, Khanty-Mansiysk A chess administrator par excellence, Mr D V Sundar, Vice President, FIDE has been doing yeomen service to chess...
1 on 1 with European Individual Champion GM Motylev
Super GM 1-on-1: Motylev smokes EICC: “Mom wanted to name me Tigran”By Elina Kazaryan and David Kerans YEREVAN (VR)— In one of the most spectacular chess tournament victories in recent years, Russia’s Alexander Motylev steamrollered an enormous field of...
Interview with FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov from the Candidates Tournament
Chessdom: Here we are with the FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. Mr. Ilyumzhinov, Khanty Mansiysk is hosting once again the world’s chess elite. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov: Yes, Khanty Mansiysk has turned into a “Chess Mecca”. Since 2005, when I signed an...
Interview with GM Jobava Baadur
Interview with Georgian GM Jobava Baadur Hello Baadur. We are happy to see you again in Armenia. Tell us about your emotions. What do you feel after playing two rounds. Thank you. It’s always a pleasure for me to...
Interview with GM Igor Kovalenko
Interview with Latvian GM Igor Kovalenko Hello Igor. Congratulations on your victory. Now you are in the leading group. What can say about the last 3 rounds? Thank you. The starting rounds were successful for me. I managed to...
Interview with Super GM Jobava
By Elina Kazaryan and David Kerans YEREVAN (VR)— While it is no secret that mercurial super GM Baadur Jobava is among the favorites to win the European Individual Chess Championship (EICC) that got underway Monday in Yerevan, Armenia, defining...
Special interview with super GM Anton Korobov
Yerevan Euro chess championship: 1-on-1 with super GM Anton KorobovBy Elina Kazaryan and David Kerans YEREVAN (VR)— Three rounds in, the European Individual Chess Championship in Yerevan is taking shape, and the wizard we chosen to follow right from...
“People truly believed it was impossible for women to become a grandmaster.”
Susan Polgarby RYAN KOHLS on Aug 23, 2013 • 12:53 pm “People truly believed it was impossible for women to play good chess or become a grandmaster. They really were convinced that because no other woman had done it...
Polgar: Little Known Feminist Icon
Susan Polgar: Little Known Feminist Icon By ALICIA COLON NY Sun (July 2006) The woman I met two years ago at the Congress of Racial Equality’s annual Martin Luther King gala certainly deserves to be a feminist icon. Yet...
Putting a chess piece in the hand of every child in America
Photoshoot for the cover of Lifestyles Magazine Queen of the King’s gameby Nancy RuhlingOriginally published in Lifestyles Magazine in 2006 Grandmaster Susan Polgar settles herself into the folding chair on the makeshift podium, folds her arms demurely in front...