We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

I don't want ever to be champion again.

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

I still hope to kill Fischer

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive.

In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.