Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.

If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.

Of course, if people do not want to do any work then it is better to start the game from a random position.

The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.

There is no democracy in Russia. Dictators do not go away through the vote. Putin relies on riot police, thousands of them, with heavy equipment, fighting Russian youngsters from opposition.

I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.

I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.