This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.

I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency.

By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.

You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.

The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.

Blunders rarely travel alone.

I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.