Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that.

If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.

If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off

I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.

I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them.

Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo <2000, as fly-swatting makes poor spectator sport. (on simultaneous exhibitions)