Vladimir Kramnik

Morozevich back in the day, uh, is another one.

Um, Kramnik to some degree.

I mean, there are, there have been tons and tons of very interesting opponents and people who can, can outplay me on a, on a good day and, and, uh, yeah, really challenge me to kind of, um, um, to kind of realize that, uh, there are some things that others can, can do better than me at time.

But, uh, yeah.

I think Sindarov will, will win because he's, uh, he's somewhat better, better rounded, and he is, um, more objective in his evaluations.

Hmm.

How do you rank Fischer, Kasparov, Karpov, Kramnik, Vishy?

Uh, I think Kasparov, then Fischer, um, probably then Karpov, Vishy, and then Kramnik.

And so I was like, all right, well, maybe I'll go and add theirs.

And so Peter Svidler, by the way, actually it was supposed to be Kramnik.

Ooh.

And for some reason he couldn't make it or something, and so Peter substituted for him, but.

I couldn't even carry them all to Sweden.

you know, all kind of chess books from Bronstein, Zurich 1953, like Anand, like Kasparov, everything, like Kramnik.

I was a book nerd, basically.

And

Okay.

And then you had a nice queen sack against Duda that I encountered, but you've played Gukesh, Kramnik, MVL.

Like, any other sort of favorite memories or stories?

Yeah, I mean, I've played so many of the top players.

Oh, yeah.

Like, like even a, uh, you know, when Aronian's take on Kramnik for example-

Mm-hmm

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