Kramnik on chess, Anand, Topalov and his future

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- World Chess Cup 2011

- FIDE Women Grand Prix (Shenzhen, 2011)

Houdini analysis
 

Sebastien Feller kindly agreed to give a written response to some of our questions.

1. Do you know why the French Chess Federation decided to handle this affair publicly?

My problems with the FCF didn’t start this year: in 2006, when I was one of the most promising young French players, I finished second at the French Junior Championship. I wasn’t, however, included in the French junior team, which deprived me of a real chance of winning a title at the European or World Championships. They took only the champion from my category along with 4 players (all weaker than me!) from the U18 category!

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“Shock and awe” – that’s perhaps how you’d describe our state of mind when we learned there was a possibility of meeting the last USSR President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mikhail Gorbachev.

Some interesting statistics:

129 thousand players in the world have a rating, but only 20 thousand of them have reached 2200, 13500 have made it to 2250 and the lucky holders of a 2300 rating and above number only 8150 people.

Grandmasters Shipov, Moiseenko, Morovic, Rublevsky, Miroshnichenko, Kazhgaleyev and Gallagher reveal ther secrets.