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Democracies get the leaders they deserve, as

A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.

By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion

I don't really like discussions about a supposed Russian national character.

If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, compromises on principles are the street lights

It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter.

Do as little as necessary to appear to be doing something without actually committing to a cause or course of action.

I like to say that the attacker always has the advantage.

I have great energy and I have great tasks ahead of me.

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.

Chess strength in general and chess strength in a specific match are by no means one and the same thing.

Russia is a mafia state today, and Putin is its top godfather.

I feel that my chess strengths are still here, .. I believe I can still improve.

The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.

Chess is not dominoes

I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.

The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.

In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess.

Typically, however, the winner is just the player who made the next-to-last mistake.

I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.

Of course, if people do not want to do any work then it is better to start the game from a random position.

I dropped the King's Indian in 1997 after one too many bad experiences against Kramnik.

One of the strengths, and weaknesses, of liberal democratic societies is giving the benefit of the doubt even to one's enemies

There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.

If you're already in a fight, you want the first blow to be the last and you had better be the one to throw it.

Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.

A master looks at every move he would like to make, especially the impossible ones

I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.

Putin is like Al Capone.

If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences.

It is better to have a bad plan than no plan.

When you consider that only an estimated 15 percent of the US population plays chess, its cultural prominence is extraordinary. It

We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law.

One does not succeed by sticking to convention.

One comforting thing about the Trump White House is that you aren't forced to choose between malice and incompetence.

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable.

We have to always look ahead enough moves to be well prepared, even for victory!

Attackers may sometimes regret bad moves, but it is much worse to forever regret an opportunity you allowed to pass you by.

The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.

Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance

I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.

Dictators seem to learn from history much better than democrats

You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice.

Moscow is simply unwilling to recognize the right of self-determination of nations.

I'm not paranoid, but I am cautious. I don't drink tea with strangers, I don't fly Aeroflot and I avoid certain countries with close ties to Russia.

All women are inferior to men.

A moral foreign policy means your positions on certain matters are clear no matter what, and that you won't forget about them when it's convenient.

I try to play, always, beautiful games ... always I wanted to create masterpieces.

Vladimir Putin mainly has friends in Europe among the extreme right, such as Marine Le Pen's Front National in France.

I now have Croatian citizenship, but I only accepted it because Croatia allowed me to keep my Russian passport.

It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.

With this mistake I deprived myself of the possibility to make a contribution to the treasury of chess art.

The West can't come up with anything to deal with Moscow, except appeasement.

This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.

Things are currently the other way around in [Vladimir] Putin's realm. But it won't stay that way forever.

Solving new problems is what keeps us moving forward as individuals and as a society, so don't back down.

The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.

Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.

We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.

Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.

For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before.

There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end.

A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.

The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes.

In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.

It is not what a government does with data that defines it; it is what it does to human beings. Any

The Russian Dept of Tourism has declared Ukraine its most dangerous destination. Many Russian tourists have disappeared there.

The Putin regime is and always has been about one thing: money. Specifically, about how to move it into the bank accounts of Putin's

I've seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities.

I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started writing books.

We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.

The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.

Values-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of history.

Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.

Repression may begin as a means to an end, but it always ends up being an end unto itself

What did disappear - or, at least, what faded dramatically - was the willingness of the free world to take a firm stand in support of the oppressed.

Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well.

It could truly be the case that Vladimir Putin has miscalculated in the long term with his adventure in Syria.

I think our chances are not looking great today but the only way to fail for me is just not to try.

It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.

Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles

Everyone, at any age, has talents that aren't fully developed-even those who reach the top of their profession.

Chess is mental torture.

There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar.

the gravity of past success.

It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

It is foolish to let down our defenses against an attack simply because we will be in the moral right should that attack come.

Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best day is unable to defeat the best computer.

[Vladimir] Putin needs wars to legitimize his position.

Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood.

Somehow, people always forget that it's much easier to install a dictator than to remove one

In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin's Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome is fixed.

At the end of the day, it's all about money.

I would like to travel to my country again, to a country without a dictatorship, to a post-Putin Russia.