Chess Tales: Paul Hoffman interview

Tuesday, 11 September 2007

Paul Hoffman interview

I was really fortunate last week to grab a 'transatlantic' interview with best-selling author Paul Hoffman about his latest book,

" King's Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game ".

The interview is our first podcast on Chess Tales:

Part 1: on chess anecdotes (1.8MB .mp3)
Part 2: on Lautier, Kramnik and playing Kasparov (1.5MB .mp3)
Part 3: chess head-banging and stage-diving! (900KB .mp3)

Look out tomorrow for parts 4-7.

Paul's book is released today. We'll be publishing a review tomorrow, and running competitions throughout the week to win copies, so keep your eyes peeled.

You should also check out Paul's blog.

1 comments:

Out_of_the_Ether said...: Terrific interview, Roger. Looking forward to the book review and the rest of the interview...Rich; 12 September 2007 11:54

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In King’s Gambit, Hoffman interweaves gripping tales from the history of the game and revealing portraits of contemporary chess geniuses into the emotionally charged story of his own recent attempt to get back into tournament chess as an adult -- this time without losing his mind or his humanity. All the while, he grapples with the bizarre, confusing legacy of his own father, who haunts Hoffman’s game and life. In this insider’s look at the obsessive subculture of championship chess, the critically acclaimed author applies the techniques that garnered his earlier work such lavish praise -- the novelistic storytelling and the keen insights -- to his own life and the eccentric, often mysterious lives of the chess pros he knew and has come to know. Intimate, surprising, and often humorous, it’s both Hoffman’s most personal work and his most compelling.

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I feel I should start this like the guy at the AA meeting: "My name's Roger and I'm a chess player". Actually, I'm probably quite a good one, I've won a few tournaments and beaten a grandmaster, but, like all of us, I'm woefully inconsistent. What I definitely am is a lucky one: I got to travel, I had good results in the Paris and Johannesburg Opens, I played in the Bolivian blitz championships, I've visited the best chess club in the world (at Samaipata in the Codo de los Andes, in case you're interested), and I've even played the World Champion... I feel some stories coming on!

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Tuesday, 11 September 2007

Paul Hoffman interview

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