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

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

At the end of the day, it's all about money.

We see threats to liberal democracy coming from lots of directions. We have to create something new, a common response, because in so many places - the UK, France, Germany - ultranationalists and the far left threaten the free market and liberal democracy.

When you say politics, you conjure a whole bunch of associations: elections, campaigning, debates, fundraising. None of this exists in Russia! We are still fighting not for election victories but for having elections at all.

I certainly want to be involved in politics and help shape the transition. I am in contact with regime critics who had to leave for the West. One of them is Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former businessman, who had to endure 10 years in a prison camp.

With this mistake I deprived myself of the possibility to make a contribution to the treasury of chess art.