You know, if I'm in a bad mood, I always look at the chessboard, just to find something that can cheer me up.

I would like to travel to my country again, to a country without a dictatorship, to a post-Putin Russia.

It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.

The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.

It could truly be the case that Vladimir Putin has miscalculated in the long term with his adventure in Syria.

Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms.

The stock market and the gridiron and the battlefield aren't as tidy as the chessboard, but in all of them, a single, simple rule holds true: make good decisions and you'll succeed; make bad ones and you'll fail.