Playing in your home city is very special. You feel the support and attention. When everything goes well, it's very great, but when it doesn't, you might as well turn off your phone: the advices seem endless.

Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess.

Quiet moves often make a stronger impression than a wild combination with heavy sacrifices.

I think that the FIDE leaders have to reconsider the current drawing rules - their advantages aren't very clear, but their shortcomings are obvious. Artificial drawing of the lots is detrimental for everyone.

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

I will not hide the fact that I love to hear the spectators react after a sacrifice of a piece or pawn. I don't think that there is anything bad in such a feeling; no artist or musician is indifferent to the reactions of the public.

Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens.