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I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.

Chess is mental torture.

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

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

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.

I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.

I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.

For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.

The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.

When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.

Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won.

I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing.