Anish Giri

Dutch GM

“It’s a very interesting dynamic …We do exchange information, but every single word matters. You’re kind of showing one card, knowing the other person knows that you’re showing it

If I tell him something about a line, normally I’m revealing something. But now he’s thinking, why is he revealing this to me? And I’m thinking, why am I revealing this to him? It creates an extra dimension.

He showed a position, but we couldn’t know how it came there …Later, I joked, imagine months from now you’re playing Fabi, and suddenly you realize you’ve reached that position he showed you.

We’d love to share everything, but we can’t. So, it becomes this weird conversational dance, how much can I say, how much should I stop?”