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

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

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

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.

Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from which one can begin to grasp the secrets of chess.

It is quite clear, however, that there won't be any real changes with the current clan structure having seized power in the course of the Karabakh conflict.

A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.