EP 316- GM Mihail Marin: The Renowned Author and Trainer on Learning from Larsen, Tal, Polgar and other Legends

GM Mihail Marin has spent his life surrounded by chess in varying professional capacities and has the wealth of wisdom and stories you might expect from such experiences. He is a polyglot, a prolific and award winning author, a top trainer, and a 3 time Romanian national Chess champion. GM Marin is also the friend and frequent collaborator of GM Judit Polgar, and eventually helped Judit write her landmark books after befriending her family in the early 1990s. In our interview, we discuss all of these experiences, as well as Marin’s memorable games against Viktor Korchnoi and Boris Spassky and his new books about GM Bent Larsen and GM Vladimir Simagin. GM Marin had so many fun stories to share and such a rich perspective on so many chess champions. Timestamps and topics discussed can be found below.  0:00- We begin by discussing Mihail’s record of Chess Olimpiad participation and trying to count how many languages he speaks. :)   Mentioned: Olimpbase.org, Magic Mountain  13:00- Mihail discusses how he works with engines.  20:00- Perpetual Chess is brought to you in part by Chessable.com. Check out their latest courses here: https://www.chessable.com/courses/all/new/ 21:00- What did Mihail think of Tata Steel 2023?  Mentioned: Giri-Carlsen 2023, Carlsen-Abdusattorov 2023  27:00- What does Mihail think of the fact that Carlsen says he will take a break from Classical Chess?  Mentioned: Caruana-Korchnoi 2011  32:00- Mihail discusses his games with Korchnoi, Spassky and Karpov.   Mentioned: LiChess Study with Marin’s games with Korchnoi 52:00- Mihail spent some time with Tal shortly before he died. What was that like? Mentioned: Tal-Gomez 1992  56:00- Perpetual Chess is brought to you in part by Aimchess.com. Aimchess’ algorithm reviews your games and gives you actionable advice on how to improve your game. Check it out for free, and if you choose to subscribe you can use the code Perpetual30 to save 30%. 59:00- Mihail has been the second, friend and co-author with GM Judit Polgar many times over the years, h