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.

Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.

Moscow is simply unwilling to recognize the right of self-determination of nations.

The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.

We can't attribute a long history of democratic traditions to Japan, either, but today Japan boasts a fully-fledged democracy in which governments change according to democratic procedures. It's no coincidence that the Taiwanese, Japanese, and South Korean economies are among the most innovative in Asia.

Most likely, the system of mutual relations that has evolved in Eastern Europe and Asia corresponds to another level of governance.