Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from which one can begin to grasp the secrets of chess.

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.

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

Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact problem similar to those which people are always having to solve in everyday life.

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.

I'm looking forward to the day when my country is saved - and the current winner becomes a loser.

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