Q. Tell us a little more about working with Garry Kasparov. Are you enjoying those sessions?
Nakamura – There's something to be gained. Mainly it’s the opening preparation he did with his team over the past 20-25 years of his chess career, and that’s really the strength of working with someone like Kasparov - his opening preparation. Because a lot of his wins came just out from getting good positions out of openings as a player. So it’s mainly just looking at openings and working from there. There are other things like studies and some endgames, but it’s pretty much the openings.
Q. So he doesn’t look at particular middlegames that much with you?
Nakamura - No, like I said, his strength was in openings. You look at middlegames or endgames and I’m quite convinced there are other players who are better than he was, but he was able to get advantages out of the openings so that was his main strength, and when he wasn’t able to do that, that’s why he lost his title to Kramnik.
Q. Simple as that?
Nakamura - Well, pretty much.
Q. Interesting. But your training sessions are continuing anyway?
Nakamura - Um, we’ll see.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw-hzR-E0LU&feature=player_embedded Quite a bit of venom in that short exchange, atleast it can be conscruded that way.
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