Ivanchuk is either a mad genius or he is completely weird to me.
I find him completely weird. I can’t understand someone being interviewed and having both hands in his head and not paying attention at all to the commentator at the press conference. He needs some manners. He is and always was and always will be one of my least (if not the least) favorite chess player ever. I don’t care how long he is on the chess scene. What a ridiculous interview.
Oh, I’m more forgiving of Ivanchuk’s eccentricities. They’re not rude, they’re just unusual. It’s these differences that make the world an interesting place.
Caruana is, it should be noted, currently the highest ranked player who was born in the USA.
It is players like Ivanchuk that gives chess a bad reputation. Tell someone you play chess as a hobby and if you convey images of Ivanchuk, then pity on you.
Chess is beautiful, chess can be sexy and it can be void of ‘unusual’ people. Let him pick his nose and close his eyes through an interview even as he is being praised. Chess: uncool.
Ivanchuk is either a mad genius or he is completely weird to me.
I find him completely weird. I can’t understand someone being interviewed and having both hands in his head and not paying attention at all to the commentator at the press conference. He needs some manners. He is and always was and always will be one of my least (if not the least) favorite chess player ever. I don’t care how long he is on the chess scene. What a ridiculous interview.
Oh, I’m more forgiving of Ivanchuk’s eccentricities. They’re not rude, they’re just unusual. It’s these differences that make the world an interesting place.
Caruana is, it should be noted, currently the highest ranked player who was born in the USA.
Brad H.
It is players like Ivanchuk that gives chess a bad reputation. Tell someone you play chess as a hobby and if you convey images of Ivanchuk, then pity on you.
Chess is beautiful, chess can be sexy and it can be void of ‘unusual’ people. Let him pick his nose and close his eyes through an interview even as he is being praised. Chess: uncool.