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By GM Daniel Gormally, England. Best rating: FIDE 2573 Your move!
Originally published in GM Danny Gormally's blog1. If you could get one chess player to play a game for your life, who would it be? (like in Bergman's The Seventh Seal) 2. Who is the hottest female in chess? 3. How many lives would it take you take you to watch the entire content of Youtube? (a bit like the auto-didact in Satre's Le Nausee, except for the internet generation.) 4. How many lives to read the entire content of Amazon's back catalogue? (see above.) 5. What is your favourite chess game of all time? (Viswanathan Anand was once asked this question and replied "Gormally-Sutovsky was a lot of fun." I was on the losing side.) 6. What do you think the population of the world will be in thousand years time? 7. And do you think chess will be solved by that point? 8. Who do you think will be world chess champion in ten years? 9. Do you think nuclear war will happen in the foreseeable future? 10. Who would win a match between Garry Kasparov and Magnus Carlsen? 11. Who is the greatest chess player of all time? 12. And who is the greatest athlete in any sports? 13. If you could be given a glimpse of what the world would look like in a million years time, but to do so would mean ten years taken off your life, would you take it? That's all the questions I can think of for now... Other posts by GM Danny Gormally: Anand did well to qualify, but he won't win the rematch World Chess Championship Candidates Starts Tomorrow Players who have quit, or you never hear about anymore Could you work as hard on chess as Kramnik? Bobby Fischer vs. Hikaru Nakamura: Theoretical Match-up Interesting thoughts of Anand in defeat London Chess Classic Preview Losing your motivation Playing blitz chess online & all the computer cheats Anand-Carlsen borefest continues Magnus, is this all he has? A clash of kings Do we overrate ourselves? Computers and their all-pervading influence on modern chess From Russia with love The England Chess Team & Jack Wilshire Should the grandmaster title be scrapped? ECF Book of the Year? Is being a chess pro worth it - continued? Is being a chess pro worth it? An Elitist Game? Does hard work in chess pay off? World Cup Final preview World Chess Cup Semi-Final preview World Chess Cup Quarter-Final preview World Chess Cup 1/8-final preview Why are Russians so good at chess? British Champs-2013 Ghent and now the British I'll never be fat again! Lessons learnt! The sad case of Borislav Ivanov: Part II Does Anyone Have a Cure for Anger Problems? The Depth of Chess Fundraising in chess Nurturing a Chess Prodigy The Sad Case of Borislav Ivanov 4NCL Impressions: no country for old men - Part II 4NCL Impressions: no country for old men One move, one line - Part II One move, one line Candidates Final Review & Preview of Upcoming World Championship Match Would Carlsen have beaten Capablanca?
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