The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
Things are currently the other way around in [Vladimir] Putin's realm. But it won't stay that way forever.
To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under pressure from your opponent. What's more, it requires a synthesis of some very different virtues, all of which are necessary to good decisions: calculatioñ, creativity and a desire for results. If you ask a Grandmaster, an artist and a computer scientist what makes a good chess player, you'll get a glimpse of these different strengths in action.
Results show that just one year of chess tuition will improve a student's learning abilities, concentration, application, sense of logic, self-discipline, respect, behavior and the ability to take responsibility for hisher own actions.
There is no democracy in Russia. Dictators do not go away through the vote. Putin relies on riot police, thousands of them, with heavy equipment, fighting Russian youngsters from opposition.
In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin's Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome is fixed.
Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one of the purest, most crystal-clear in the entire history of chess, astonishes one with his logic.
I like to spend time with my family - that's the most important thing in my life.
I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.
In the yoga of love we learn to love consciousness. Consciousness is existence. It is the very stuff of which life is composed.
A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.