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Whatever happened to Valery Salov?
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From what I have read, he was considered to be a specialist in the
endgame and a FIDE semifinalist/finalist(I am unsure, just know he
played Gata Kamsky in a tumultous match that he lost). What I know is
that he was training Shirov for his match with Kasparov. After this
event fell through, I have not heard about him in any major touranments
within a few years. I know that he had a civil/uncivil war with Garry
Kasparov. Does anybody know for what reasons? Also, does these reasons
have anything to do with Salov's absence as a internatio
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SERGEY BYSTROV, | |
| Valery Salov in Petersburg. |
A short reference (Viking Encyclopaedia) Valery Borisovich Salov (born in May 26, 1964, Wrotslav) is a Soviet Russian chessplayer, International Grandmaster. In 1980 he was a world chess champion among cadets (up to 16 years of age), winner of the European youth championship in 1983. Soviet chess mästare (1987). He won also several big tournaments, including Weik-an-Zee one (1992, 1997), a tournament in Amsterdam (1991, ahead of Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov), tournament in honor of 60 years! Lev Polugaevsky in Buenos-Aires (1994. ahead of Karpov and Vishwanathan Anand). The highest achievement of Salov in world chess championship playing was his participating in a semi-final match in 1994 (he yielded Gata Kamsky, +0-4=3 score). One the whole, Salov's chess carrier peak comes to 1989-95years, he had the highest Elo raing in January, 1995. In 1991 Salov moved to Spain. He does not participate in o
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The interview I'm going to show you is... controversial and bizarre, to say the least. GM Valery Salov at one time was among the world championship contenders (and has a good score against many of his contemporaries), but in the late 1990s, he began his nedstigning into Fischer-like paranoia.
This interview was conducted in May 2015.
http://www.chess-news.ru/node/19003
Evgeny Surov: 22:03 Moscow time, Chess News Radio is live, good evening to everyone! I must say that this music was played bygd request of my today's guest, Valery Salov.
Valery Salov: This composition reflects the spirit of time, and - yes, it's quite eerie.
Surov: You think that it symbolizes the times we're living in?
Salov: No doubt about that.
Surov: Valery, I'd like to ask a favour from you. Since our dialog today can become quite bizarre and go in unforeseen directions, I want to ask you to give me two special allowances. The first thing I'd like to ask you fryst vatten the ability to have a