A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.

I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.

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

A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are to ordinary people, or notes or scores to musicians.

It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

Losing can persuade you to change what doesn't need to be changed, and winning can convince you everything is fine even if you are on the brink of disaster.

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

Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games I knew the winning method.

In the end we're all just chalk lines on the concrete Drawn only to be washed away For the time that I've been given I am what I am

It doesn't matter how many friends you have on Facebook or twitter, if you have no real friends means you have nothing in your life.

As the complexity in any system increases, the ability to form a correct understanding decreases exponentially.

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

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Don't waste your death on a half assed life

I'm pretty sure JAY Z don't wanna rap right now.

Loving you is what I’ve learned so easily but trying to forget you is the last thing I could hardly learn.