FIDE Master

Title inaugurated in 1978 for a player with an ELO rating around 2300, after recommendation of his national federation.

You only task in the opening is to reach a playable middle game. Lajos Portisch
Politics is a team game, here it is necessary to compromise, to take into account the views of other people. As for Garry, he is quite a contentious, totalitarian person. But in general, I’m sorry that Kasparov switched to a role that does not match the scale of his personality. Vladimir Kramnik
2015
Petrosian would never have beaten me if he had played like that in 1963. Mikhail Botvinnik
1966
The competition in the men’s tournament has grown massively over the past 20 years. Chess is becoming more and more popular, and there are no weak teams in the tournament any longer. Andrey Filatov
Some players lose ability to think independently and rely on computers completely. Lajos Portisch
2012

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