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Often, when reading written analysis of games from top level tournaments you'll find comments like "Black must have missed this move," referring to a critical moment. A commentator working remotely typically doesn't have an opportunity to find out what was in the players' minds. Thankfully, that's not the case in Saint Louis, where the player contracts require them to be available for an appearance on the live webcast after each game. Occassionally, they may be allowed to skip out on that comittment, but for the most part you saw the players turning up for at least a few minutes, even after painful losses.
To make it easy to review these interviews, we've painstakingly linked all 75+ interviews to their corresponding player name in the round-by-round results tables below.
All links take you to the Chess Club and Scholastic Center's YouTube channel. Any missing links indicates that there was no interview with that player during the webcast for that round (it's rare, but it happens).
A bonus clip of the players taking about their youth | Source: CCSCSL on YouTube
| Name | Result | Name |
| Aronian Levon | 1 - 0 | Nepomniachtchi Ian |
| Caruana Fabiano | ½ - ½ | Carlsen Magnus |
| Karjakin Sergey | 1 - 0 | Svidler Peter |
| Anand Viswanathan | ½ - ½ | Nakamura Hikaru |
| Vachier-Lagrave Maxime | 1 - 0 | So Wesley |
| Name | Result | Name |
| Nepomniachtchi Ian | 0 - 1 | So Wesley |
| Nakamura Hikaru | ½ - ½ | Vachier-Lagrave Maxime |
| Svidler Peter | ½ - ½ | Anand Viswanathan |
| Carlsen Magnus | 1 - 0 | Karjakin Sergey |
| Aronian Levon | 0 - 1 | Caruana Fabiano |
| Name | Result | Name |
| Caruana Fabiano | ½ - ½ | Nepomniachtchi Ian |
| Karjakin Sergey | ½ - ½ | Aronian Levon |
| Anand Viswanathan | ½ - ½ | Carlsen Magnus |
| Vachier-Lagrave Maxime | ½ - ½ | Svidler Peter |
| So Wesley | ½ - ½ | Nakamura Hikaru |
| Name | Result | Name |
| Nepomniachtchi Ian | 1 - 0 | Nakamura Hikaru |
| Svidler Peter | ½ - ½ | So Wesley |
| Carlsen Magnus | 0 - 1 | Vachier-Lagrave Maxime |
| Aronian Levon | ½ - ½ | Anand Viswanathan |
| Caruana Fabiano | ½ - ½ | Karjakin Sergey |
Bonus: Vachier-Lagrave confessional
| Name | Result | Name |
| Karjakin Sergey | ½ - ½ | Nepomniachtchi Ian |
| Anand Viswanathan | 1 - 0 | Caruana Fabiano |
| Vachier-Lagrave Maxime | ½ - ½ | Aronian Levon |
| So Wesley | 0 - 1 | Carlsen Magnus |
| Nakamura Hikaru | ½ - ½ | Svidler Peter |
| Name | Result | Name |
| Nepomniachtchi Ian | ½ - ½ | Svidler Peter |
| Carlsen Magnus | ½ - ½ | Nakamura Hikaru |
| Aronian Levon | 1 - 0 | So Wesley |
| Caruana Fabiano | ½ - ½ | Vachier-Lagrave Maxime |
| Karjakin Sergey | ½ - ½ | Anand Viswanathan |
| Name | Result | Name |
| Anand Viswanathan | 1 - 0 | Nepomniachtchi Ian |
| Vachier-Lagrave Maxime | ½ - ½ | Karjakin Sergey |
| So Wesley | ½ - ½ | Caruana Fabiano |
| Nakamura Hikaru | 0 - 1 | Aronian Levon |
| Svidler Peter | ½ - ½ | Carlsen Magnus |
Bonus: Garry Kasparov guest commentary
| Name | Result | Name |
| Nepomniachtchi Ian | ½ - ½ | Carlsen Magnus |
| Aronian Levon | ½ - ½ | Svidler Peter |
| Caruana Fabiano | ½ - ½ | Nakamura Hikaru |
| Karjakin Sergey | 1 - 0 | So Wesley |
| Anand Viswanathan | ½ - ½ | Vachier-Lagrave Maxime |
Bonus: Svidler confessional
| Name | Result | Name |
| Vachier-Lagrave Maxime | 1 - 0 | Nepomniachtchi Ian |
| So Wesley | ½ - ½ | Anand Viswanathan |
| Nakamura Hikaru | ½ - ½ | Karjakin Sergey |
| Svidler Peter | 1 - 0 | Caruana Fabiano |
| Carlsen Magnus | 1 - 0 | Aronian Levon |
Bonus: Svidler confessional
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