Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have the right to be forgetful - it is 'life threatening'.

I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.

If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.

A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are to ordinary people, or notes or scores to musicians.

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

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

Losing can persuade you to change what doesn't need to be changed, and winning can convince you everything is fine even if you are on the brink of disaster.

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

Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games I knew the winning method.

I could now see her the way she actually is and not in the distorted way my mind presented her to me when I was trying to find a reason to reject her and move on

Be an echo of peace not an echo of bullets.

When times get tough and your path gets rough, just hold on. You'll get there soon enough.

Technical expertise is only a tiny portion of what it takes to be a successful employee and, particularly, a successful leader.

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

A lot of the time people don't even know what they want until they see something new.

"Tell em keep my name out they mouth cuz they dont know me"

The highest form of leadership is one in which a leader raises up other leaders - not as an accident, but as a result of conscious effort.

Life, he decided, was for living, not for having, and he wanted to experience every moment that he could.