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

We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors.

After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired.

First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control.

Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so you must have very strong nervous system and then you must be well prepared, you must be able to work a lot.

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

An amusing fact: as far as I can recall, when playing the Ruy Lopez I have not yet once in my life had to face the Marshall Attack!