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Location: Chennai
Date: 26th December, 2008.
Interviewers: Sriram Srinivasan and Jaideep Unudurti (Outlook Business)
Before moving on to the role of Information Technology (IT) in your career I would like to ask you what was your first chess book?
A couple of chess books. My sister bought me a collection of chess openings. A very basic, (but) in those days a very highly regarded book by Horowitz. Clearly it has been updated a lot.
Then I think I got Capablanca’s Chess Fundamentals. And most importantly, several books on opening traps and swindles. It is like, you know, how to make a quick buck. How to win games quickly by tricking your opponent here and there. There was 1001 Opening Miniatures, Opening traps and swindles, how to avoid them. They just give you a lot of examples like that. Those were the kind of books I read. Then in the Philippines I started winning some prizes, so again I picked out game collections of players or these kinds of books with lots of traps and titbits. I didn’t buy too much heavy material, I didn’t get into Nimzowitsch (smiles).