When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King is under attack you don't worry about losing a Pawn on the Queen's side

There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar.

If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences.

The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.

My life is split in three parts; I don't know the percentage. One could be called "chess" - the Kasparov Chess Foundation, promoting the game, training young players, playing on the internet, sometimes exhibitions. The second area would be "writing" - books, articles, Twitter, Facebook. And then "political activity" - fighting for human rights and democracy, so TV, interviews, speeches.

Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms.

I don't have enough information, and enough courage, to come up with a definite version of events. And I think it is too dangerous for me to do so.