We know that the governments in most of the successor states formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union are replaced through a process of regular elections.

Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.

We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.

The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough.

Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact problem similar to those which people are always having to solve in everyday life.

The only successor to President Putin is President Putin himself and we could of course dream about President Putin stepping down voluntarily and picking out successor which would be probably as bad as him.

I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.