Somehow, AI is playing an important role of breaking up the ice of complacency. We have a comfortable life, we just don't want to take risks. AI is threatening too many comfortable jobs to make people think about taking risks again.

A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and unsocial chess player. Now matter how great his chess skills, he lacked the people skills to be a self-promoter and fund-raiser.

I don't have enough information, and enough courage, to come up with a definite version of events. And I think it is too dangerous for me to do so.

We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law.

Winning is not a secret that belongs to a very few, winning is something that we can learn by studying ourselves, studying the environment and making ourselves ready for any challenge that is in front of us.

I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.

Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best day is unable to defeat the best computer.