Interview with GM Mikhail Golubev
Written by content team 20 March 2009
In this interview with GM Mikhail Golubev, he talks about his transition from playing to writing, his books, experiences working with Karpov, Korchnoi and Ponomariov, FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, FIDE and ACP.
GM Mikhail Golubev : – Thank you for presenting me in that way. I would not say that am a tournament organiser though. I was involved in organisation of the Odessa ACP events, but mainly as a press officer, it is not the same thing. Yes, I contribute occasionally, when there is mutual interest and possibility, to New in Chess (as it happens, most often my articles are for the NiC Yearbook rather than the NiC Magazine), and British Chess Magazine, which has outstanding traditions. GM Alexander Baburin’s ChessToday.net is my main basic occupation. I am very glad to be involved in this unique project, already for 7,5 years. (Annotated more than thousand games there, and working on news and most of other types of content). I am also involved in the Russian language chess journalism: for six years I am observing chess in the main Ukrainian sport newspaper Komanda and quite often I am contributing to the most popular chess site in Russian, chesspro.ru.
LatestChess :- You have written three books – on the Dragon, the Sozin Attack and the King’s Indian. Authoring a book must be a time consuming job, you need to do a lot of games analysis. Can you say a few words about your book writing experience?
GM Mikhail Golubev : – These three opening topics are most known to me, it is logical that I wrote/was offered to write books about them and not about something else. Yes, it is anyway difficult to write opening books these days, as quantity of material grows all the time. More and more often authors came up with original solutions, not trying to cover everything. In any case I believe that professional players who employ a specific opening regularly are, normally, the most suitable authors for the opening books. Ideally it could be the world’s top professionals.
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