Perfectly correct chess exists only in theory.

I'm looking forward to the day when my country is saved - and the current winner becomes a loser.

I would say that when you go to the very, very top, it's an ability to come up with new ideas, with something new, to make the difference. Every world champion, every player who was traversing this universe, managed to bring something new to the game. This ability to always find some unconventional ways. That makes the final difference.

His teaching became a turning point in chess history: it was from Steinitz that the era of modern chess began. The contribution of the first world champion to its development is comparable with the great scientific discoveries of the 19th century.

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.

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.

The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes.