One does not succeed by sticking to convention.

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

I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.

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.

Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.

Remember that the machine is there to help you, because at the end of the day, you're not playing freestyle chess, advanced chess, human-plus-machine. If you are playing against other humans, it's about winning the game. The machine will not be assisting you, unless you are cheating of course. And since the machine is not there, you have to make sure that everything you learn from the computer will not badly affect the way you play the real game.

With this mistake I deprived myself of the possibility to make a contribution to the treasury of chess art.