The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.

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.

We know that the governments in most of the successor states formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union are replaced through a process of regular elections.

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

I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.