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.

Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent.

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

Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.

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.

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