2 Questions from the full interview with Bartolmiej
What are your top book recommendations for advanced players?
I recommend everybody to buy a book with games annotated by a favourite player. It helps a lot when a favourite player shares thoughts he had during a game and explains the process of taking a particular decision.
How did you become a GM?
My GM title was based on 4 norms achieved in Pardubice 1994, Budapest 1996, Polanica-Zdroj 1998 and Krynica 1998. The conditional title was awarded to me on the 4th of October 1998, it means the day of my 21st birthday. The condition (rating at least 2500) was fulfilled on the next rating list (1 Janaury 1999 — I had 2553). During the first tournament GM Ratmir Kholmov was helping me occassionally, in Budapest I didn’t have a chess coach, and during the last 2 tournaments GM Vitaly Tseshkovsky accompanied me.
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