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Quotes of the Day
I thank the Lord for not pairing me with Black against Magnus Carlsen in the first round.
Nigel Short 2017
No player, however strong, no member, however large, shall stand above FIDE
Florencio Campomanes
I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone’s hand off if he puts it in my mouth
Wilhelm Steinitz
Kramnik was the luckiest man in the history of chess. He never won a single cycle, he got all the matches that he played for political reasons.
Veselin Topalov 2014
It is true, in chess so far that men and women cannot be on the same level from an economic situation, but there can always be a more reasonable way to combine the financial part and the players’ situation.
Hou Yifan 2016
