If we look at statistical data, we see that Protestant countries in terms of economic development are more successful than those observing Catholicism.

You know, if I'm in a bad mood, I always look at the chessboard, just to find something that can cheer me up.

Putin is like Al Capone.

Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess.

It was an impressive achievement, of course, and a human achievement by the members of the IBM team, but Deep Blue was only intelligent the way your programmable alarm clock is intelligent. Not that losing to a $10 million alarm clock made me feel any better.

We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.

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.