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Moscow Open 2016

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January 28 – February 8

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Sergey Arkhipov: I wanted to find out, how good I’m in playing Chess

February 1, 2016
Sergey Arkhipov: I wanted to find out, how good I’m in playing Chess

The correspondent of the official website of the tournament Eteri Kublashvili met the RSSU Veteran Cup ranking favorite Sergey Arkhipov. The famous grandmaster told us about his return to the chess and the start of the Moscow Open.

- Sergey Nikolaevich, why have you decided to play in the RSSU Cup after quite a long break?
- I played quite successfully in the Moscow team championship and I managed to win several tournaments after that, including the Moscow veteran championship in rapid chess. And now I just wanted to find out how good I can be in playing (laughing).

- So, what did you find out after two played games?
- I played much better in the second game day, than in the first: it was very complicated then. In the first game against Vissarion Kondratiev I got to play a certain debut variant, and it turned out, a whole book is devoted to this debut. 

- Did you manage to outwit him somehow?
- Yes. And everything was very easy in the second round. My opponent Igor Sinelnikov used an equal position with the white, and you still have to play it, and it turned out to be in my favor.

- Have you ever played other favorites of this tournament? What’s the score?
- Long ago, in the Soviet Union times. I played with Evgeny Sveshnikov, he’s a little bit ahead of me. We were always sitting together with Evgeni Vasiukov, but never played against each other. I’ve met Evgenij Kalegin only here. And I’m leading in the score with Evgeni Dragomarezkij and Arkadi Vul.

- Are you coaching someone at the moment?
- Ekaterina Goltseva from Nizhny Novgorod. She’s a very talented chess player, but very stubborn.

- You’ve been teaching in the RSSU for quite a long time. What can you tell about this job experience? What famous grandmasters have you brought up?
- I don’t think, I managed to bring up anyone in the RSSU. I’d rather say, we can talk about those, who joined the RSSU after our training sessions. They are Olga Girya, Alina Kashlinskaya (Valery Chekhov was her main coach, though she also participated in my training process), Nastya Savina, Vera Nebolsina, Lena Tairova, who unfortunately passed away.  Among young men – these are Volodya Belous, Ilya Ilyushenok, Shamil Arslanov, Yura Eliseev – a very talented player, but also extremely stubborn. Sometimes stubbornness helps greatly, that’s why I can’t admit, it’s a disadvantage. It’s just a remarkable feature.

- In general, what do you think of the idea to open a chess department in the university?
- The idea itself is good, but there is a staff problem, lack of financial support. If to invite specialist for the salary, provided according to governmental tariffs, there won’t be any good coaches. Or we will have good trainers but they will arrange their work in such a way, so that to get paid for the real working time. It’s very hard to avoid it.  

- A question to an experienced coach: is the talent evident, or are there cases, when you don’t expect anything special from a person, and then he/she shows up?
- As one of the Marxism-Leninism classics said: “You can’t live in the society and stay independent of it.” It means society can ruin any talent. As well as a poor coach, parents, school or other conditions. Of course, the talent can be easily seen right away. I’d point out Ilya Makoveev from the number of the youngest chess players. And still I must say, not everyone, who wishes, can become a good grandmaster.