If you don't take risks, you don't drink champagne.

There are exceptions of course, like for instance the Baltic States, which are members of the European Union, together with Ukraine and Moldova, as well. In those countries, the governments have been reformed as a result of elections.

One does not succeed by sticking to convention.

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.

In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy, to put it mildly. Either there's democracy, or there isn't.

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

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