It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter.

Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance

In Syria, Vladimir pUTIN sees the chance to make millions of refugees and weaponise them. The US has to take a lead in defending the values of the free world.

Donald Trump envies anyone who can do things he can't.

I've seen up close the benefits and drawbacks of kids working with super-strong chess programs in their training, and they definitely think differently than past generations thanks to this alien influence. While we are making our machines more intelligent, they are also changing how we think.

The handover of power to [Dmitry] Medvedev was rather painless, everybody thought that the waves would calm automatically. By now, it's quite clear that [Vladimir] Putin doesn't want to relinquish the levers of power.

I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.