Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps.

I lost the match. I blame only myself for this. There were many opportunities to win. But I missed them, no one else.

To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.

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.

Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

Playing black, I put great stake in the Ruy Lopez: I liked it, feel it, and understand it; in matches with Hjartarson and Timman it served me well. - on preparing for World Championship versus Garry Kasparov