The only way to fail for me is just not to try.

...comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come from? The answer is synthesis, the ability to combine creativity and calculation, art and science, into whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts.

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.

I’ve seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities.

I can't think of a scenario under which [Vladimir Putin] would gradually resign from power. For him and those around him, power became a source of unlimited enrichment. A loss of power would be tantamount to an annihilation of the economic success that has been achieved so far.

The only way to fail for me is just not to try.

I don't think that nature envisaged an insurmountable mechanism that would hinder any country from taking the path of democratic development.