Chess you don't learn, chess you understand.

Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow.

[Garry] Kasparov and [Anatoly] Karpov have something in common. They both want to become deputies of the Russian State Duma.

The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

The aim was simple: to deprive Karpov of his favourite occupation - standing at the board, staring straight at his opponent. While I was wearing these glasses, all he could admire was his own reflection.

The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.