You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

To my surprise I found that when other top players in the precomputer age (before 1995, roughly) wrote about games in magazines and newspaper columns, they often made more mistakes in their annotations than the players had made at the board.

A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.

The regime is in trouble economically and can no longer offer anything to its citizens. That's why [Vladimir] Putin has to pursue an aggressive foreign policy, so he can serve his people the fairy tale of Russian pride and regaining its strength as a major power.

Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood.

Russia is a mafia state today, and Putin is its top godfather.

Values-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of history.