Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles

Like Dvoretsky, I think that (all other things being equal), the analytical method of studying chess must give you a colossal advantage over the chess pragmatist, and that there can be no certainty in chess without analysis. I personally acquired these views from my sessions with Mikhail Botvinnik, and they laid the foundations of my chess-playing life.

[Vladimir] Putin's Russia is only indirectly concerned with the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan as a means of maintaining its sphere of influence. I doubt that Russia will meddle. Moreover, I'm quite sure that Ilham Aliyev won't decide to carry out any serious action - it's not in his interest. He's learned his lesson very well - threaten to take action but never act on such words.

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.

If you're already in a fight, you want the first blow to be the last and you had better be the one to throw it.

Perfectly correct chess exists only in theory.

Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best day is unable to defeat the best computer.