When I was eleven, I just got good.

All I ever want to do is just play chess.

I prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident.

I think it's almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.

The system set up by F.I.D.E. ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion... The Russians arranged it that way.

It's the fault of the chess players themselves. I don't know what they used to be, but now they're not the most gentlemanly group. When it was a game played by the aristocrats it had more like you know dignity to it. When they used to have the clubs, like no women were allowed and everybody went in dressed in a suit, a tie, like gentlemen, you know. Now, kids come running in their sneakers. Even in the best chess club-and they got women in there. It's a social place and people are making noise, it's a madhouse.

That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one