Natalia Pogonina is a leading Russian chess
Woman Grandmaster and member of the Russian chess Olympic team. Her current FIDE
rating is over 2500. She won the gold medal at the 1st International Mind
Sports Games, some of her best performances includes, championship titles at
Bykova Memorial, Rudenko memorial, Moscow Open.
She would like to see women chess players doing their best to match the best
male players. According to her, we might see a female absolute world chess
champion. Apart from Chess, Natalia is also widely known as a person of great
physical and spiritual beauty.
In this interview with WGM Natalia Pogonina, she talks about her goals,
chess and education, Chess Kamasutra book etc. According to her, it is possible to apply sex principles to chess. Interesting
interview with lots of pictures.
LatestChess :- Hello Natalia,
We are glad to have you on LatestChess. You are having great start for the year
with Bronze medal at the European Women Chess Championship and Championship
title at Moscow Open. How do you re-focus your goals as a chess player and in
which direction do you see yourself going? GM Natalia Pogonina :-
Thank you, it’s a pleasure for me to be interviewed
for LatestChess.
The start of the year has indeed been successful for me, but I am not
overexcited about it. I have always been pursuing the highest goals, so my
successful performance at Moscow and the European Women Chess Championship have
only strengthened my determination to progress. I am looking forward to the
Women World Chess Championship next year and would do my best to prepare well
for it.
A smile
before the game boosts your performance by 100 points
LatestChess :- How do you balance the competing
demands of your multiple professions as a GM, model, practicing Law? Have you
ever considered giving up one to concentrate on the other? GM
Natalia Pogonina :-
Chess is my primary occupation, so I dedicate most
of my time to it. Other activities that you have mentioned don’t require that
much energy, so I manage to spare some time for them too. One shouldn’t confine
himself to his job, people should develop harmoniously.
LatestChess :- Chess has been
effectively used as a powerful educational tool; Russians were the first to
introduce chess as a subject in the Schools. How is your experience having chess
as a subject in the school? GM
Natalia Pogonina :-
Chess is an optional subject in Russia, and is on
schedule in only in some schools, not all. When I went to school we didn’t have
any chess lessons. Only during the last two years some steps have been taken in
the direction of introducing chess in schools. I strongly appreciate this since
chess is extremely effective in terms of developing a person’s thinking
abilities.
chess is extremely
effective for developing thinking abilities....
After
winning Moscow Open 2009
LatestChess :- Did your chess studies affect
your schooling when you were growing up? When did you decide to become a
professional chess player? GM
Natalia Pogonina :-
I don’t think that studying chess has greatly
affected my results in other subjects. At that time I didn’t spend that much
time playing chess, and was just a regular kid. Some subjects were less
challenging, some were more. When I was about 12 years old I have firmly decided
that I am going to be a professional chess player.
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