Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.

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 told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.

Within every little dream seed is the potential viability of sprouting to becoming a great forest.

People who think nothing can go wrong are usually disappointed.

Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.

What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.

None of us really know where we're going.

I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin.

I think the idea was to make a horror film that became a science-fiction film with a lot of melodramatic tropes.

The rich are always afraid.

The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.