Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.

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.

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

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.

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

To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.