Going Alien

The victory in the Qualifier 1 of the 2nd World Fischerandom Chess Championship gave Russian Grandmaster Vladimir Vasilyevich Fedoseev a date for the Grand Finale at Reykjavík in October. Yet, as he himself said in the interview afterwards, it was anything but easy for him to extricate himself from the “going alien”. “Fischerandom is the game you cannot control. It’s absolutely impossible”, Fedoseev said. “Positions during this tournament were so crazy that it was impossible to judge them correctly. Because of this, I mostly feel like an idiot who tries to find solutions in an absolutely different world. That’s why I stayed calm in any trouble and was ready to play any hopeless position”.