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I don't pretend to anything more than harmony.

Las Vegas is a beautiful place. I like it more and more and plan to be here often. It's a great place for chess.

Style? I have no style.

First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control.

The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.

An amusing fact: as far as I can recall, when playing the Ruy Lopez I have not yet once in my life had to face the Marshall Attack!

Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.

If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments.

I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.

Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths.

It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.

We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors.

My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again.

Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.

I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.

The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this ...

Combinations with a queen sacrifice are among the most striking and memorable.

I have won Russia at least 16 world championships. I have fought for my country.

Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.

The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.

The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.

I like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4.

Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent.

In Kansas I have a chess school.

To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.

I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.

I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.

It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the abyss.

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.

Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position

No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that.

Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after me.

You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.

No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.

But how difficult it can be to gain the desired full point against an opponent of inferior strength, when this is demanded by the tournament position!

I lost the match. I blame only myself for this. There were many opportunities to win. But I missed them, no one else.