Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

The Greeks according to official history used letters for hundreds, for tens, and ones.It was extremely complicated. If you talk about Archimedes, you should use Greek letters.

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.

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

At the end of the day, it's all about money.

Chess is mental torture.

The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes.