“Sleep problems are very serious”, three-time Russian Women’s Chess Champion Aleksandra Yuryevna Goryachkina said in an interview with a Championat correspondent. “I periodically suffer from it myself, and I have no ready-made solutions”. With an anno horribilis behind her, she has, indeed, no saving thoughts at all about the new one. The interviewer subtly urges her to tell if she ever thought to follow in Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk’s footsteps and change nationality. Goryachkina, in her answer, is anything but sibylline:
“You know, for some reason the Chess Federation of Russia has been ignoring me for the last six months. Last year I was the only one without a subsidy...”. It is not only a money matter, though. The supreme authorities also denied her a spot in the Russian Chess Championship. But why? “I do not know”. On its part, the Chess Federation of Russia declined to comment on her words.
On the other hand her participation in FIDE events cannot be anything but occasional due to the conventio ad excludendum against Russia. So, as things go, she will have to look around for a new challenge and new types of formats, whether at home and abroad. Who knows, maybe she will be commenting on the upcoming World Chess Championship match between 丁立人 (Dīng Lìrén) and Ian Alexandrovich Nepomniachtchi.
Quite curiously, when she sits at the board for long hours, she does not eat anything of sweet or salty, but just drinks water all the time, because, “in order to be ready for anything, it is better to feel a little nervous”. But life is not only chess, of course (and fortunately). And thus, “Speaking without reference to chess, desserts usually disappoint me — I probably like 1 out of 100. So I prefer, say, pizza — the same calories, but it tastes much better to me”.
On the other hand her participation in FIDE events cannot be anything but occasional due to the conventio ad excludendum against Russia. So, as things go, she will have to look around for a new challenge and new types of formats, whether at home and abroad. Who knows, maybe she will be commenting on the upcoming World Chess Championship match between 丁立人 (Dīng Lìrén) and Ian Alexandrovich Nepomniachtchi.
Quite curiously, when she sits at the board for long hours, she does not eat anything of sweet or salty, but just drinks water all the time, because, “in order to be ready for anything, it is better to feel a little nervous”. But life is not only chess, of course (and fortunately). And thus, “Speaking without reference to chess, desserts usually disappoint me — I probably like 1 out of 100. So I prefer, say, pizza — the same calories, but it tastes much better to me”.
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