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

Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

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

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.

I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.

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.