00:00of a champion grandmaster who started playing King's Indian and he was one of
00:06the pioneers of King's Indian late 40s early early 50s you know reviving the
00:11opening and always coming up with new ideas and then he switched the Kings to
00:17the Queen's Gambit I couldn't believe why I was so but then I just realized
00:22that it's not just about the opening it's it's it's very important how you how
00:27you feel whether you feel comfortable and you always look for you know certain
00:31positions that that could fit your your chess playing mood at a certain time and
00:40I also made few fluctuations as I said from e4 I went to d4 1977 then I moved
00:47gradually back to e4 playing with Karpov and by the beginning of the 90s after
00:55playing my fifth match was Karpov I almost exclusively moved to e4 but at the
01:01end of my career I played equally e4 and d4 maybe a little bit more e4 but I I
01:07didn't have any any special preferences
01:16in 1977 I look for some new openings and I was already a Soviet junior champion
01:23under 18 and I had to defend my title and I worked with Alexander Shakarov in Baku
01:29Alexander Nikitin also was helping me and we thought about having some new ideas how
01:34to expand my opening repertoire and was black pieces I switched from Sicilian that I
01:48played almost exclusively to Karo Khan after e4 I played c6 d4 d5 knight c3 take on e4 bishop f5 I always played bishop f5
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