GRANDMASTER See International Grandmaster

” (about Lasker) For me, this personality, notwithstanding his fundamentally optimistic attitude, had a tragic note. The enormous mental resilience, without which no chess player can exist, was so much taken up by chess that he could never free his mind of this game, even when he was occupied by philosophical and humanitarian questions.” Albert Einstein
I think I am certainly more talented than many other people. But I don’t know what talent consists of. Magnus Carlsen
2014
Fischer was the first to send me a telegram when I was in Amsterdam after I had defected, saying ‘Congratulations on the correct move’. Vikor Kortchnoi
1986 NIC
Ten years ago I said that 2010 would be the end, chess would be exhausted. But it is not true, chess will not die so quickly. Vishy Anand
2008
One of the most important things in chess is pattern recognition: the ability to recognise typical themes and images on the board, characteristics of a position and their consequences. Magnus Carlsen
2010

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