You have to win something for people to think about you.

Studying is something I really love doing, and I just hope to have enough money for tuition.

A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.

Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.

When you stop playing for a while, people tend to forget about you.

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

I have never been a professional model; I have had some modeling sessions.

It's now possible to play and take lessons from any place of the world. The concept of physical distance doesn't exist in the online world, and that is so cool!

If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also.

I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.

And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don't know me yet.

The intangibles are a euphemism for we have no idea what we're looking for but we know it when we see it.

In code, it never pays to rush.

When I am in the darkness, I want to think of it in the light, with you. - James Carstairs

Almost half of the Turkish population believes it is not legitimate to criticize the government. Interestingly, this correlates with the number of supporters of Erdogan's government.

Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.

Coincidence is a wonderful thing.

Technically he is perfect and he plays so naturally, almost without effort. It's like when Roger Federer plays tennis, he barely sweats.