First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control.

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency.

Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.

Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position

The priority must be the unification of the world titles to straighten things out. But we should not wait that long anymore to change the situation, because we are running out of time.

The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this.

I still remember Botvinnik's reaction to each of my games, right from the opening moves. At first he would express amazement, then annoyance, and, finally irritation.

By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.

To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.

Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.

Africa PRODUCES what it does NOT CONSUME and CONSUMES what it does NOT PRODUCE.

Justice to others and to ourselves is the same; that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square, but must fill with them the great circle traced by the compasses

The thought of going abroad makes my heart leap.

Being a celebrity can be dangerous. Nobody says 'no.'

All the records of your past lives are contained within your own mind, just as the records of your ancestors are contained within your DNA.

At 19, you know everything; by the time you're 40, you haven't got a clue.

Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.

The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears, Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores Of will and judgment.