Michael mun. Michael Moon: Collective combing of the mind is a pleasant thing Alexander Moon what where when

12.06.2019

They live in different cities each of them have their own job. But the hour comes (and it comes four times a year) - and experts put on tuxedos, sit down to round table with a top in the center and begin to solve questions. And after the game they return home again - wait for the next time. But, despite such a frequency of appearance on the screen, connoisseurs of "What? Where? When?" - the real TV stars.

Mikhail Moon is no longer called "a talented young player" or "the brightest connoisseur of the new generation." He has long been on an equal footing with the giants of the famous TV show - Potashev, Druze, Dvinyatin. We met with Mikhail in the office of an investment company, where he works as a trader in a division with beautiful name"Department of Mergers and Acquisitions", and asked him to answer questions not from viewers, but from our newspaper.

Trader

Mikhail, as I understand it, you also earn money here with your own mind?

Yes, mind and language (laughs). I work for stock market- one of the few places where the intellect and abilities of a person without the involvement of any additional tools turn into money.

And what are you doing?

Everything is very simple. I buy and sell shares on behalf of clients. Or I help them buy and sell.

Are there elements of the game, excitement in your work?

Certainly. An organic element of our profession is the concept of "risk". Risk is inevitable, it must be reckoned with, taken into account. Where there is risk, there is play. After all, any forecast is not one hundred percent. As well as any version in the game.

Does your TV popularity interfere with your life and work?

I am a phlegmatic and introvert by nature, and it is uncomfortable for me when they come up on the street and start to say something. But at work - it helps. When I get to know a client, and he already knows me by "What? Where? When?", the working relationship develops faster.

Connoisseur

What was the childhood of the connoisseur? Probably read smart books all the time?

My childhood was the most ordinary. But I really learned to read early. We had books at home with all kinds of puzzles, logical problems, I really liked them. Yes, even when I was five years old, I watched "What? Where? When?" and I had a firm conviction that this is mine, that I will definitely play. Then this feeling was forgotten.

And when did you return?

In my first year, when I started playing. What they show on TV is really the tip of the iceberg. There is a whole movement "What? Where? When?", In which thousands of experts participate. Russian and world championships are held. And the TV version is cruel game: a lot of decent people and little space. But I was lucky - I went through the selection successfully, and for the first time I played successfully on TV. It was in the winter of 1997.

How many correct answers did you give then?

No one. But the number of responses is not the most important indicator. Any hypothesis or even half-hypotheses expressed during the team discussion can lead to the correct version. We call it a pass - like in football. The merit of the one who passes is no less than the one who gives the answer.

What is needed in order to "take" the question?

A very important factor is experience. In internal structure many questions are similar, the number of types is limited. How more people plays, the more often he gives the correct answer later. In most issues of the television "ChGK" logic is rarely applicable, subtle associative links must work there. Why sometimes a strong team loses and an unknown team wins? Because logic and knowledge are not enough. Something else is needed.

Illumination? By the way, where does it come from?

Illumination is the reaction of the brain to a stimulus. Anything can be an irritant - a team discussion, a leader asking a question, or the words of the captain: "Michael Moon answers." An associative chain has begun, it quickly unwinds, and you understand what's going on. It often happens that in the moment of discussion you already have the answer in your subconscious, and the main thing is to get to it.

How do you prepare for the game?

I try to get as much sleep as possible and limit myself from sensory sensations. I usually sit in a hotel room, if I watch TV, then video clips with muffled sound, if I read, then something relaxing. I hoard energy.

behind the scenes

After Voroshilov's death, many thought that the game would end there. Nevertheless, Boris Kryuk became the host:

And "What? Where? When?" became his full-fledged author's program. Under Kryuk, the game remained alive, it did not become a clone of the previous games. Recently I was rewatching old games - then the transfer went on for more than two hours! But then it was appropriate, such was the rhythm of life. Voroshilov was a great man. He subtly felt the nerve of the era, and at one time he realized that it was no longer possible to play on books - it would be false.

And experts began to play for money. And then they stopped again.

Because many games are played for money, and they play only because of them. And it's great that Hook turned it down.

It seems that the questions have become worse, there are more "knowledge".

Disagree. Any question can be answered. In addition to questions from the 13th sector. But this is an element of chance, normal in the game. It's like football: one team plays downwind, the other against the wind.

Mikhail, what kind of cat ran between you and Alexander Druz?

Well: (smiles and is silent for a very long time.) What can I say here?.. Maybe this is a factor of one city? It is no coincidence that the most irreconcilable rivals are Milan and Inter, Roma and Lazio. But there is no war between us. It will be necessary to play in one team - we will sit down and play. When we meet, we greet and shake hands. Someone may not like someone - this is normal.

So you won't tell?

- (He smiles again and is silent.) Yes, I can’t say that this is some kind of serious conflict. There were no scandals, we do not hurt each other on the sly. These conversations started after they wanted to award the “Owl” to me twice, and Sasha imposed his veto - but this is his right. I respect other people's opinions.

Player

I already understood that you are not indifferent to football:

Yes, I love football very much. I think - and I think rightly so - that I am well versed in football. I even consider myself a football analyst. I understand what is happening on the field, who is running where and why they are running there.

I'm afraid many people think the same way as you.

But for me this is confirmed by the fact that I play at a bookmaker and quite successfully.

So you still play on the sweepstakes?! And what else?

At the university I played a lot of cards, preference.

And also successful?

Yes. Almost always won. But I'm not a gambler, rather, a pragmatic one. If I lost, I wouldn't play. When I start doing something, I have an incentive to do it professionally. I am not pleased that I win money (especially since I bet very little), I am pleased with the fact itself - I am a professional, I understand this, and winnings are an objective indicator of this.

Help "AiF"

Michael Moon. Born February 25, 1975 in Gatchina. Graduated from St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Control Processes. In "What? Where? When?" has been playing since 1991. Since 1997 in an elite club. Winner of the "Crystal Owl" (2002) Married, in March 2002, son Andrey was born.

Boris Kryuk about Mikhail Moon (from an interview with Ogonyok magazine):

":For "What? Where? When?" The optimal question is the one to which the connoisseur does not know the answer, but by comparing his knowledge and feelings in a minute he finds this answer. I think that in this sense, Mikhail Moon is simply a phenomenal player. I think he would lose in "His Game". In knowledge, he could not compete. But at solving questions, Moon is one of the best."

City (St. Petersburg) 04.04.2005

Something, somewhere, for some reason, can “What? Where? When?" live your thirtieth birthday
This spring, the leadership of the TV company "Game" sat down at the gaming table of the program "What? Where? When?" instead of "experts" politicians and pop artists. Many did not like this - there was talk that the game, which turns 30 this year, has exhausted itself. Mikhail Moon, the owner of the Crystal Owl, who no longer participates in What? Where? When?".
- Why did you leave?
- There are several reasons for the fact that I finished playing. Firstly, I am convinced that any player should be able to leave in time and beautifully. A rather strange goal is to sit at the table with a spinning top for as long as possible. I always wanted to participate in a beautiful game, and not remain Koshchei the Immortal. Secondly, the time has come: I played intermittently for eight years. This, in my opinion, is enough. And thirdly, 2005 is a jubilee year, the title of master will be played. This is a race with a huge prize at the end. To take part in it without the desire to win is unsportsmanlike. And I'm not very interested in playing anymore.
- Why?
- For most connoisseurs, the game is an opportunity for self-realization. Right now, I'm more productive at work. As long as I felt the desire to sit down at the gaming table - then the game was. But the last one for me is “What? Where? When?" last summer proved that I was never able to tune in. Last time I had this when I had to play two days after the death of my dog. But here there was a completely different situation, when there was simply no internal incentive for the game.
- How many times it happened that a connoisseur left the club, and after a few years returned again.
- Maybe I'll come back. Everything can change. Would like to repeat this. After all, the greatest pleasure is to take a question. This is akin to the joy of Mendeleev from the table opened in a dream. I don't really like connoisseur terminology, but there are quite a few precise definition. When the team sorts through the versions, one suddenly pops up, and it becomes clear to everyone that it is she, in the club this is called a “click”. The moment of truth. For the sake of this moment, I advise everyone to play “What? Where? When?".
- Is it so easy to get there? How are players selected for the program?
- The right to form teams belongs to the heads of the TV company "Game". Sometimes they listen to the advice of experts, sometimes they act strictly against this advice. I don't know exactly how it is now. Previously, there was a more or less clear vertical and it was clearer how the selection took place.
- And How?
- Almost immediately after the release of the program, regional clubs began to appear all over the country. There people played for their pleasure, without any TV, without money. Then Voroshilov realized that he had provoked the movement populace. And the first congress was assembled International Association clubs "What? Where? When? ”, the so-called festivals began. They, in turn, replenished the first forge of ChGK personnel - the Brain Ring. It was a very high-quality screening, which took place almost in combat conditions. Filming of "The Brain" took place in inhuman conditions - four transfers a day. Players came to shoot every day. They didn't know if they would be allowed to play today or not, but they had to tune in every round because they could be called to play at any moment. Accordingly, it was a terrible psychological stress. Ten to the studio. Two shoots without a break. Then - lunch. Everyone runs to the dining room. There is only one dining room, and all three hundred people also have a break at the same time. So I had to run fast. Back to the studio, two more shots. Then - the hotel. Half a liter of vodka - to fall asleep, the next day - again the same thing. It was an existential high, and most players regret that they don't have to go through that again.
- Where did the "Brins" disappear to?
- "Game" refused "Brain-Ring", because none of the TV channels wants to buy it.
- And what is the secret of longevity of the “What? Where? When?"?
- Voroshilov is a genius. He largely determined the development trends of modern television. What we see now in the show of Larry Flynt and others - Vladimir Yakovlevich came up with long before them.
- Do you like what happens in “What? Where? When?" now?
- I do not know what would have happened if the "Game" had not chosen the current vector of development. After the death of Voroshilov, Boris Kryuk and Natalya Stetsenko found themselves in a monstrous situation. It's like being handed a Chinese Ming vase and offered to walk through a littered, dark labyrinth without breaking it, because it's priceless. They had an enormous responsibility. So no one has the right to criticize what they are doing now.
- But they could refuse this responsibility.
And ruin everything? I believe that the game is valuable precisely because it lives. It seems to me that what we see today is unequivocally better care"What? Where? When?" from television. If the program were closed, it would be a disgusting monument to Voroshilov. I do not want and will not give an assessment of what and how Stetsenko and Kryuk did, but I am always on their side. The role of the keepers of the game fell on them like a ring on Frodo. This is a huge cross. And the fact that they continue to carry it is great. In whatever direction they turned with this cross.
- Nevertheless, the game has changed a lot, and not for the better ...
- I have a feeling that the game has acquired the format of the new time. She became very similar to the "Night Watch", "Turkish Gambit", "Weak Link" and even a little bit to the "Star Factory". But I can't say for certain that it wasn't inevitable.
- And how did you like the idea of seating TV viewers and stars at the gaming table?
She looks disgusting to me. Take the question, you can experience this catharsis only in the game. It is valuable that during the discussion the team unites into a single organism, becomes something more than a meeting of six players. Because it is able not only to extract old knowledge, but also to create new ones. Voroshilov always emphasized this. Unfortunately, in the current series, I saw all the elements of “What? Where? When? ”, Except, in fact, the game. Everything was professional, except for those sitting at the table. They clearly couldn't get the buzz. Accordingly, they did not understand what the real “What? Where? When?".
- Honored experts occupy any positions in the "Game"?
- The only player who has taken a post in the TV company is Andrey Kozlov. All other official posts do not hold. Voroshilov initially took this position: never communicate with experts. And rightly so: tomorrow he will dip his face in the mud, and today he talks nicely with us.
- Hasn't it become more boring with the change of presenter?
- Ironically, Boris Kryuk, under Voroshilov, was just working with experts, talking with us. Naturally, when he became the leader, many tried to embarrass him, behaved with him even in a boorish way. But he proved at the very first games that this topic would not work. Periodically, it pops up, and again he has to dip someone in the muzzle into this very thing. But by and large, Hook passed Scylla and Charybdis successfully.
- They say you quarreled with Alexander Druz because he did not allow you to receive two "Crystal Owls". It's true?
- The truth is that Alexander Abramovich and I do not like each other. We have a certain mutual antipathy. And the "Crystal Owls" have nothing to do with it. My friend doesn't like me, doesn't like the way I play, and he, like a master, doesn't think I deserve it Grand Prize games. This is a completely normal position, and because of it we definitely did not quarrel. I wouldn't call it a conflict. I, for example, do not like Zyuganov and Khakamada. Maybe they don't like me either. Should I swear with them now, or what?
- You still received one "Owl". Does possessing it give anything?
- It seems to me that some experts I like respect me. Their attitude towards me is much better than the Crystal Owl. That is also why I left: if I began to go downhill, look pale, just serve my number at the table - I would be ashamed in front of these people.
- Do old players have jealousy towards young ones?
- Is it possible, except in Soviet films, there are situations when old people rejoice new shift? Put yourself in the place of an old worker who used his wrench to turn nuts in one direction for fifty years, and then a young specialist came after vocational school and begins to turn them in the other direction. And after the shift, he goes to drink beer, while everyone goes to drink port wine. Only sentries forgotten in the guard are glad to see the shift coming. "What? Where? When?" - a completely normal get-together in which people who are forced to coexist in the same space unite into interest groups. And I would not divide connoisseurs by age. And jealousy of newcomers, of course, is always there. Perhaps even me.

On Wikipedia about Michael Moon (and since there is an article about you in the free encyclopedia, it means that you are a well-known person) it is written amusingly: “radio host”. And only in the second place is it written that “first of all, he is known as a player“ What? Where? When?". Winner of the "Crystal Owl"

And what is not written at all in the encyclopedia is that main job Mikhaila Muna is "the commercial director of a company that imports chemical raw materials." But we still didn’t ask about this - but about what, where and when. Moreover, we recently watched the game of Andrey Kozlov's team, which includes our interlocutor. Then, we recall, experts won.

- Mikhail, how many years have you been in the game?
- It is clear that I did not immediately start playing in a television club. I got into the sports "ChGK" in my first year, in 1991. And in the television club - at the end of 1997.

- For you, the game "under Voroshilov" and the game with the current host, Boris Kryuk, are fundamentally different?
- Of course, the transfer is very author's. The host of ChGK is, with all due respect, not the host, for example, of the Field of Miracles, where there is a format. "What? Where? When?" primarily reflects the personality of the presenter and the personality of the connoisseurs. That's why Voroshilov said: this game is not about answering questions, this is a game about people.

Both Vladimir Yakovlevich and Boris are also participants in the game, but I would say that under Voroshilov it was more a game against Voroshilov: he took on the role of an irritant, an element of pressure. Boris, it seems to me, is trying to be an intermediary between experts and some other agents of pressure - spectators, questions, the tournament situation. He only directs this force, without taking on the role of the force itself.

- At the teams different character. What is your character?
- Andrey Kozlov has a rather original approach, which he even imposes on us, the team's players.

As he says, when a question is asked, the answer to it already exists - in the leader, in the noosphere, in the collective unconscious of the team. And in a certain state of command resonance, we are able to pull this answer into the conscious. And in order to achieve this state, Andrey uses certain psychological methods- in other words, it seeks to introduce the team into a state of severe stress.

- Yes? Whoever is on edge is Captain Andrey Kozlov ...
- Stress - not in the sense nervous tension but in terms of pressure. The game is probably 20% reflection and 80% concentration. This is proved by the fact that experts, when they are not sitting at the table, but either standing nearby or watching the game at home, take questions much more often. At the table, responsibility interferes ... TV cameras - to a lesser extent, they are used to them.

A concentrated team would win with a score of 6:3 - 6:4, but usually we win with a score of 6:5 or lose 5:6. On the edge. At the TV screen, I will take 80% of super blitzes, and at the table - 10%, or even less.

How do team members play? You are from different cities...
— Well, everyone on the team with a lot of experience in the game. Another thing is that you need to get used to it.

We usually meet the day before the game, on Friday, we have a small team training, about three games. It is rather an organizational moment: to tune in to each other - someone shouts a little louder, someone does not formulate clearly enough. And we devote the day of the game to psychological adjustment, working out concentration. We have a tradition, Andrei has repeatedly voiced it: we get together, have lunch and go to watch some action movie. The dumber the better.

Before I started playing in Kozlov's team, I practiced the opposite: until the last moment I sat in a hotel room, read some boring nonsense like a ladies' novel, completely unloading the senses so that, according to my hypothesis, they would sharpen at the right moment. Andrey comes from the opposite: to load the senses, while not straining the intellect. Serious scientific research these techniques have not been carried out - which is a pity: it is interesting to find out which is more effective.

How to take a question? Here is the technique...
- The question in "ChGK" is not a riddle of the universe. The universe speaks to us in the language it pleases. A person writes a question so that it can be taken. At the same time, the question-answer pair should be a small work of art. Who wrote "Eugene Onegin"? “Pushkin” is not a couple, because the reaction to this is: “So what then?” And if so, then the answer is probably not correct. Look for another.

Or, for example, if a word in a question seems unnatural, it probably contains the key.

There are questions in which the course of thought is immediately clear: for example, it is necessary to sort out operas or French kings. There are some questions that are overwhelming at first. In a recent game of our team was baby question: “Antonina can’t swim, Nikolai works at a logging site, but where does Evgenia work?” I had a panic in the first second - I did not understand what to do. Thank God that Alena Alexandrova's brain worked in the right direction: it is necessary to turn Antonina into Tonya, Nikolai into Kolya - and then it becomes obvious: Tonya is drowning, Kolya is stabbing, and then Zhenya marries, and she works in the registry office.

What's funny - the viewer, for example, immediately guessed and chuckles: a simple question, that's fools.

Questions "ChGK" in fact - a kind of metalanguage, having mastered which, you solve the problem of taking a question by 70%.

We, the audience, also guess. But maybe the editors of the game deliberately throw up easier questions, for the sake of our self-respect?
— Vladimir Voroshilov in his founding work(he also published two books on ChGK) wrote that for a successful game in What? Where? When?" enough knowledge high school. This game is not about knowledge at all.

- And they also say that sports “What? Where? When?" much more difficult than television. What is it in general - sports "ChGK"?
- It's a slightly different game. Well, as in the automotive industry: a car was built on the same chassis for a different purpose. The goal of the TV game is to show the collision. This is art, because art is primarily “about a person”. The personality is placed in extremely uncomfortable conditions, so that under this pressure everything superficial is gone and the person becomes what he is. Do not cheat live. If you focus on keeping your face, your mask (we all wear masks in everyday life), you will not be able to play, you will only broadcast the mask.

Sports "ChGK" is also interesting. Yes, any intellectual activity brings pleasure: our mind has formed in the process of evolution, and it itches all the time, and the game also provides such a service as collective scratching of the mind, which is many times more pleasant.

But sports "ChGK" is not an art, it's a sport. Trying to figure out which team is...I won't say "smarter" because good players aren't necessarily smarter than bad players... Find out who's better at this particular game.

If Kozlov's team plays sports "ChGK" at the World Championships, it will be very far from the first place. Eight years ago, we would still have fought, but in last years the sports game began to go more and more into abstraction, into such a "bead game". A typical question of the current sports game: three x's are located on the y, they carry three alphas, what word is replaced in the question? At the same time, there is an unspoken agreement: masculine nouns are called x and y, alpha is feminine ...

“Oh, why such difficulties?
- Because the package of questions in the sports "ChGK" should rank, say, 60 teams. The question of the television "ChGK" should not separate the teams, because only one plays. Therefore, if in the sports "ChGK" you give the teams questions from the television, then on most either almost everyone will answer the questions, or, conversely, almost everyone will not answer - it will not be possible to qualitatively determine who won.

I periodically go to warm up in the sports "ChGK", but here I am not as effective as in "human" matters. Although this is a matter of habit. Just a different language. You once learned French, but did not practice - and you forgot, but if you live in a language environment, you will speak again. If a team of strong players in the sports "ChGK" sits down for television questions, then Kozlov's team will beat them. Because it is our language.

How did you become a radio host? Because you love football?
- Six years ago, Radio Zenith was launched, and one of the experts, Lesha Blinov, knowing that I was an active fan, suggested: let's cooperate. There was a program with my participation, "The game of the head." I ask questions, listeners answer via SMS, and the presenters in the studio do not let you get bored.

At the same time, I came as a guest fan in the program “Football Aggravation” by Fedya Pogorelov, then he went to America to study for a year, I replaced him and took root. Fedya, when he returned, came up with another program for himself, and I continue to broadcast “Exacerbation”.

- What's interestnig smart man finds in football?
- Look, the game is an integral and, probably, a basic human need. Wherein important property games - that a person always understands that this has nothing to do with reality. We sat down at chess, and suddenly the house caught fire - it is clear that we will give up the game. But while the house is not on fire, we sit and play, although we have more important things to do, we could earn an extra penny. No, we sit and play. Because like it. As in the famous experiment with a rat, which was implanted with an electrode in the pleasure center in the brain, and she constantly pressed the button to stimulate this center, did not drink or eat.

Football is just one of the games. What do smart people see in it? Well, after all, it's not tic-tac-toe, where two moves and a draw, if you don't make stupid mistakes. In football, there is a place for personality to emerge. There is a place for aesthetic pleasure - football players can do with the ball what they cannot do ordinary people. This is a game of the mind, a game of coaches who select players in such a way as to push them strengths and to level the weak ones - there are no ideal football players ... Maybe only Cristiano Ronaldo. It is also a game with an opponent, a clash of wills and strategies.

- Well, yes, the game - and why are there such terrible fights in the fan environment?
- There is a whole subculture of near-football hooliganism, it has developed its own code of conduct. For example, they fight most often by agreement of the parties, in strict accordance with dueling code. Such a box fresh air. If I go, for example, to a match with Spartak in Moscow and even put on a Zenith rose at the same time ... well, maybe some fool will shine in my eye, this is also in the rules of the game ... But I should be seriously afraid for my life, no.

— Returning to the game: are there definitely unloved types of questions?
- Dislike for certain issues is individual. When we take a question, endorphins are released, you get physiological pleasure. But a momentary feeling of panic, when you don’t understand how to reason, gives an adrenaline or norepinephrine rush, and this is very unpleasant.

Personally, my worst questions are when, excuse me, some garbage is brought to the table: guess how it is used. Questions like “continue the quote of such and such” are close to me, because this is a “person-to-person” relationship, and when they take out garbage, there is no person. Thank God, we have Kapustin in our team: if we are given an incomprehensible object, Kapustin either knows how to use it, or twists it in his hands and guesses.

- Boris Kryuk said about you: this is not a player of knowledge, but a phenomenal solver. But knowledge is still needed. Do you read an encyclopedia, say?
- Not. You just have to be out of context. I'm sitting at work, I downloaded a package of questions from the database - I played. It's hard for me to play alone, so I either take the question in the first second or immediately open the answer.

- And remind me of some legendary something-where-sometimes question ...
- "About the hole", for example. The end of the seventies or the beginning of the eighties, the final of the year, the authors of the questions are in the studio. And one aunt behaved unpleasantly - well, she was the only one who was against the fact that the experts were credited with the answer to some question, not even hers. (I'm not saying a lady on her own unpleasant person, it could be by-effect live broadcast.) Finally, it was her turn to ask the question: “Leonardo asked: “What grows the more, the more they take away?” And from herself she added: “The answer begins from the end, and ends from the beginning.”

The question is simple - but experts are stupid for a whole minute. A schizoid way of thinking when you go around in a circle and are not able to get out of it: "Oh my God - I don't know - what it could be - I don't know." Everyone around you already guessed it... In fact, this is a separate format for viewing ChGK - watching the game, knowing the answer: you evaluate how close the players are to the truth. So, the minute has expired - and there is no answer. And Nurali Latypov, answering, suddenly at the last second: "The Pit." Then versions were born, allegedly experts knew the answer already in the first second, they simply teased the viewer, but this is not so.

- You once said a long time ago that small children should not be sent to all sorts of developing kindergartens. Do you still think so? By the way, what is the composition of your children?
- A boy and a girl ... I believe that it is impossible to develop children in a disharmonic way. When you gently direct a child somewhere (there is no question of forcing it), you need to understand whether you are doing this for him or for yourself. There are two poles where so many parents fall into: hypertrophied physical development or hypertrophied dry-intellectual. Are you teaching a four-year-old child to take integrals - and why? A child at four years old is not able to perceive abstractions, and emotional sphere, the ability to empathize you will “dry” him.

- A question from the female part of the editorial office: to “What? Where? When?" Do pairs often form?
- I would not say that there are many or few pairs. Yes, ChGK - I mean the movement in general - is a big hangout, people spend a lot of time together, sympathies arise that turn into relationships. Moreover, there are many couples from different cities: during the year people can meet six times at tournaments, play for three hours, there is nothing else to do - they go for a walk. In general, the environment is conducive. But on the other hand, people are smart, and intelligence actually borders on selfishness, and couples often break up. Because ... Yes, we are all difficult people.

Member Name: Mikhail Valerievich Moon

Age (birthday): 25.02.1975

City: Gatchina, Leningrad region

Education: St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Control Processes

Family: married, has a son

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Radio host and trader Mikhail Moon is known to many primarily as one of the experts in the elite club “What? Where? When? ”, But what else is noteworthy in his biography?

Misha was born in the small town of Gatchina, located in the Leningrad Region..

Then his family moved to St. Petersburg, where he eventually graduated from gymnasium No. 171.

After school, the boy went to St. Petersburg State University, where in 1996 he received a diploma from the Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Control Processes.

Your romance with the game “What? Where? When?" the young man began as a child, when he looked forward to each issue and froze at the sound of Vladimir Voroshilov's voice. As soon as he entered the university, Mikhail immediately went to the club for sports ChGK called Kolomna.

It was there that Moon learned to take a punch, concentrate and go to victory without paying attention to anything around. It is in the sports version of “What? Where? When?" he played in the teams of such connoisseurs as Leonid Klimovich and Sergei Vivatenko.

On the big screen Mikhail first got in 1997 and immediately fell in love with the audience. They saw in him a very tactful, pleasant and incredibly erudite young man. The inquisitive mind of the young connoisseur was noted in 2002 by the presentation of the "Crystal Owl".

By the way, the connoisseur himself notes that he had a hand in obtaining owls by such connoisseurs as Dmitry Konovalenko, Rovshan Askerov and even Maxim Potashev.

In 2005, Moon announced that he was ending his career in the television version of the program, but cannot refuse the sports format. The connoisseur simply indicated his departure - the excitement was gone, and the slightly changed format of the program ceased to suit him. True, at that time, Mikhail noted that over time he could get bored and return, but so far this has not happened.

Since the same 2005, the intellectual was invited to the board of the International Association of Clubs “What? Where? When?". Moon agreed and stayed with it until 2009.

Among the others television programs, in which Mikhail Moon was noted, one can single out "Own game" of the sample on April 19, 1995.

It cannot be said that the intellectual club is the only interest and occupation in Mikhail's life. There is a page dedicated to radio in his career - he is the host of two programs at once on Zenith radio.

These are “Football aggravation” and “Heading”. In serious professional activity Moon has such positions as:

Trader JSC "Broker Firm Lenstroymaterialy";
Trader of CJSC IC Energocapital.

On the this moment Mikhail is the director of the share markets department of Closed Joint Stock Company BFA.

The personal life of the connoisseur has long settled down - his wife's name is Anastasia Gusarova. This couple has a son.

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Mikhail Valerievich Moon

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Biography

Graduated from gymnasium No. 171 of the city of St. Petersburg, in 1996 - St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Control Processes.

Worked as a trader in joint stock company"Broker Firm Lenstroymaterialy" and CJSC IC "Energocapital"; currently heads the Equity Markets Department at CJSC BFA.

"What? Where? When?"

Since 1991, he has been a member of various teams in a sports version. intellectual games"What? Where? When? "(until 1993 - in the team of Leonid Klimovich, then - in the team of Sergei Vivatenko). In the elite club since 1997.

In the autumn of 2002 he received the Crystal Owl prize. From 2005 to 2009 he was a member of the Board of the IAC.

In 2005, he announced his departure from the television club “What? Where? When?" , but did not stop participating in sports What? Where? When? . He again began performing in the TV club already in 2006. At the moment (November 2015) has a win-loss ratio in the club of 61.11% (36 games, 22 wins).