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

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

I dropped the King's Indian in 1997 after one too many bad experiences against Kramnik.

It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked at chess as the ultimate test. So they thought, "Oh, if a machine can play chess, and beat strong players, set aside a world champion, that would be the sign of a dawn of the AI era." With all due respect, they were wrong.

Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

The loss of my childhood was the price for becoming the youngest world champion in history. When you have to fight every day from a young age, your soul can be contaminated. I lost my childhood. I never really had it. Today I have to be careful not to become cruel, because I became a soldier too early.