A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.

A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and unsocial chess player. Now matter how great his chess skills, he lacked the people skills to be a self-promoter and fund-raiser.

We know that the governments in most of the successor states formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union are replaced through a process of regular elections.

I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.

I would like to travel to my country again, to a country without a dictatorship, to a post-Putin Russia.

Though I would have liked my chances in a rematch in 1998 if I were better prepared, it was clear then that computer superiority over humans in chess had always been just a matter of time.

The Russian Dept of Tourism has declared Ukraine its most dangerous destination. Many Russian tourists have disappeared there.