FIDE Master

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

It is not possible to become a great player without having learned how to analyse deeply and accurately. Mark Dvoretsky
Everything is very concrete nowadays. The computer often gives unnatural moves which are correct, but sometimes hard to remember. You know a line is correct, but then your forget something and lose terribly. Daniel Stellwagen
2010
We must finish once and for all with the neutrality of chess. We must condemn once and for all the formula “chess for the sake of chess”, like the formula “art for art’s sake”. We must organize shock brigades of chess-players, and begin immediate realization of a Five-Year Plan for chess. Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko
Of chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not chess. Irving Chernev
I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of Chess Siegbert Tarrasch

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