Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin's Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome is fixed.

Nervous energy is the ammunition we take into any mental battle. If you don't have enough of it, your concentration will fade. If you have a surplus, the results will explode.

The situation in the [North Caucasus ] region can easily get out of control if the capital inflow is interrupted. It is apparent, even when leaving democratic institutions and values aside for a moment, that [Vladimir] Putin's regime has led the country down a blind alley. Our task is to usher in a shift of paradigms, a new foundation.

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

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

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