Here is the continuation of the Kramnik interview with ChessBase founder Frederic Friedel.
…First of all I already have some serious preparation left from my match with Anand, so I can take, well not totally a year off, but sort of, and so I decided that it would be interesting for me, and even refreshing, to be my own manager, at least for one year.
Ahh, I was just about to ask: who is your new manager? The answer is Vladimir Kramnik!
Right, it is not that I am changing my manager, I am just quitting my manager and taking over myself. That is a different story. Of course I guess that for some time people might send some things through Carsten, and of course we agreed that he would definitely pass this information on to me, but basically in the future people should contact me directly.
One thing puzzles me. Carsten earned you a LOT of money – I mean the computer match, the world championships and so on were extremely well funded. And I believe he was the person who found all the sponsors, or was closely involved in finding them.
Yes, that is true, he basically found most of them…
So you are giving up a sure source of income and might lose quite a bit of money by managing yourself?
Ahhh, well, okay. You know, Frederic, nowadays the last thing I think about is money. If I would be thinking about money maybe I would not be playing chess but occupying some nice comfortable place in Gazprom somewhere [laughs]. Believe me, that would be much more profitable. No, it is really not about money at all. Yes, I understand that I might earn less now than before, but I am not really concerned about that. I am more concerned about achieving something, and my next important goals are things like becoming number one in the world, or to become again World Champion, or best of all both together.
Here is the full interview.
I hope he can make a big comeback.
He never qualified for a World Championship and he never will.
I like Kramnik but he is very optimistic about his skills compared to the other top grandmasters.He always presents things in a way that would be most favorable to his ability. Anand was simply better.Certainly Anand had a surprise in the Meran. But Kramnik repeated the opening two games later. The problem with that opening is it’s sharp,complicated and one bad move is curtains.
That’s Anand’s forte. Kramnik would like to convince himself that he is Anand’s equal in a complicated middle game. Sorry Vlad.
Stop insulting one of the Greatest living chessplayers!
Kramnik Anand Topalov & Carlsen are surely the best players around today and I enjoy following their games in any tournament or match.
Morozevich and Ivanchuk can also be brilliant, but they also can play really bad now and then….
Kramnik definitely needs to work on his openings as he admits himself. I hope he comes up with some good new lines and joins again in the fight with the other three Greats…
Who insulted anyone???