Naturally, the psychological susceptibility of a match participant is significantly higher than a participant in a tournament, since each game substantially changes the over-all position.

The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it.

Some sacrifices are sound; the rest are mine

I'd like to always be romantic in chess. Sadly, this doesn't always work like that.

If (Black) is going for victory, he is practically forced to allow his opponent to get some kind of well-known positional advantage.

In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate my thought processes into normal human language.

There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine