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

We know that for the last 300 or 400 years, the size of human bodies is growing. Now what happened is that we suddenly, in history, have the backward process. We have these great Greek athletes, we have ultra-powerful Roman soldiers. You look at the size of the Roman soldier who has to carry all this ammunition. You're talking about 300,000 Arnold Schwartzeneggers.

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

When you say politics, you conjure a whole bunch of associations: elections, campaigning, debates, fundraising. None of this exists in Russia! We are still fighting not for election victories but for having elections at all.

The ability to work hard for days on end without losing focus is a talent. The ability to keep absorbing new information after many hours of study is a talent.

Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance

By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion