Blunders rarely travel alone.

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that

I still remember Botvinnik's reaction to each of my games, right from the opening moves. At first he would express amazement, then annoyance, and, finally irritation.

No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.

The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.

I didn't picture myself as even a grandmaster, to say nothing of aspiring to the chess crown. This was not because I was timid - I wasn't - but because I simply lived in one world, and the grandmasters existed in a completely different one. People like that were not really even people, but like gods or mythical heroes.