Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

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

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

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.

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

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.

In Kansas I have a chess school.