” Chess is a sport. A violent sport.”
Marcel Duchamp
After an upsetting defeat the best psychology for the next game is a placid draw
Dr. Vidmar
To Put It Mildly, I Have Not a Bit of Respect For Topalov
Vladimir Kramnik 2015
Now, at 51, in my life I have reach the stage between the middlegame and the endgame. But I don’t have the feeling that I am in the endgame already.
Boris Spassky 1988 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