Kramnik Interview: "Intellectual Effort Gives Me Enormous Pleasure"
Monday, August 5, 2013 at 4:46PM
Dennis Monokroussos in Vladimir Kramnik

Here's a long and interesting interview with Vladimir Kramnik that is enjoyable in most every respect but one: he, like Gata Kamsky, renewed the "threat" to retire from chess at 40. (He's 38 now.) Why not keep going as long as you can seriously compete for the world championship, enjoy it and have the strength to keep up the lifestyle? Oh well. I wonder what would happen if he won the next Candidates event and then defeated Carlsen. Would he retire even then?

Anyway, the rest is enjoyable, and if you're not a Kramnik fan you might enjoy that part too.

HT: Jaideep

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