I enjoy playing the game. It's hard for me to just watch it, even while broadcasting.
My most difficult opponent is myself. When I am playing I often involuntarily make a world champion out of a candidate master.
Analysis, if it is really carried out with a complete concentration of his powers, forms and completes a chess player.
Analysis is a glittering opportunity for training: it is just here that capacity for work, perseverence and stamina are cultivated, and these qualities are, in truth, as necessary to a chess player as a marathon runner.
First and foremost it is essential to understand the essence, the overall idea of any fashionable variation, and only then include it in one's repertoire. Otherwise the tactical trees will conceal from the player the strategic picture of the wood, in which his orientation will most likely be lost.
In those years, it was easier to win the Soviet Championship than a game against 'Iron Tigran'.
A sensation, hidden in the depths of my emotional memory, was suddenly revived: what if. . . What if for me The Variation is not dead? If The Variation is alive?!
God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
Who I've been is not as important as who I'm becoming.
You're awfully philosophical for a girl that just got busted.
America does not seek good for Islam, for the Muslims, and for the repressed.