The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes.

I am between the Tories and the Lib Dems. I am fiscally conservative. I'm for strong foreign policy, but socially very liberal. I am not religious. That makes me feel uncomfortable with American Republicans. I don't feel at home anywhere, really. Labour under Tony Blair was not something I would associate myself with, but I didn't have a big problem with it. I have to make a choice between fiscal and the role of the state and social freedom.

The West can't come up with anything to deal with Moscow, except appeasement.

One does not succeed by sticking to convention.

The only way to fail for me is just not to try.

In an age when schools are facing significant budgetary restraints, there is a greater need than ever to make chess available to as many students as possible. We've assembled the very best in chess education to develop a complete chess curriculum - K through 12. We've designed a program that encourages creativity, instills self-discipline and offers hope and a feeling of accomplishment to millions of children.

At a certain point, the atmosphere in the West could change. But I don't see determined political will [for that] at the moment.