Chess is not dominoes

Chess is mental torture.

Putin is like Al Capone.

All women are inferior to men.

I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

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

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

Perfectly correct chess exists only in theory.

The only way to fail for me is just not to try.

One does not succeed by sticking to convention.

My opponent is Short and the match will be short.

Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.

If you don't take risks, you don't drink champagne.

Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.

Donald Trump envies anyone who can do things he can't.

[Vladimir] Putin needs wars to legitimize his position.

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

In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.

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

The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.

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

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

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

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

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

My nature is that I have to excite myself with a big challenge.

Rhetoric matters, but at the end of the day policy matters more.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

History tells you if dictators are not stopped in time, they cause more damage.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the event that we don't want to lose the Far East and Siberia, we need a united Europe.

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