What am I doing in this pool of piranhas?
Nigel Short 2017
Petrosian would never have beaten me if he had played like that in 1963.
Mikhail Botvinnik 1966
Who was the greatest chess player? If chess is an art, Alekhine. If chess is a science, Capablanca. If chess is a struggle, Lasker.
Saviely Tartakower
” The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.”
Alexander Alekhine
Karpov Lost, Kasparov Lost, the Only One Who Remained Is Me.
Silvio Danailov 2014