It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.

It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.

From Ukraine to Syria, he [Vladimir Putin] is behaving like the world's new general and celebrating victories, while the American president sits on the sidelines and Europe sleeps. The West's behavior toward Putin is political and moral capitulation.

For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.

Attackers may sometimes regret bad moves, but it is much worse to forever regret an opportunity you allowed to pass you by.

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

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.