Grandmaster Olexandr Bortnyk (Alexander Bortnik) 2010 interview

A brief portrait of bullet and blitz specialist Olexandr Bortnyk when he was just 13 years old (well, “almost 14“ as the precocious teenager clarifies!), recorded at the Arctic Chess Challenge in Tromsø, Norway, in August, 2010. At the time he was just an IM, but GM strength in blitz. He became a GM in 2015, and as of April, 2019 is rated 2723 in blitz chess. Russian and English