RESIGN

Surrendering a lost position, rather than taking the time and energy to play it out. The proper way to indicate you are resigning is to either gently tip your king over, or simply say, “I resign.” (see Abandon)

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
I don’t particularly like being searched electronically. It is inconceivable that such a thing would happen in any other sport. It is fundamentally anti-chess, and I think the people who are behind this decision need their heads looked at! They are sick! They are ruining the very beauty that is chess. Nigel Short
2016
I have often written that Karpov is like an iceberg. Well, Kasparov was the Titanic. Alexander Roshal
Chess should not become an obsession. Otherwise there’s a danger that you will slide off into a parallel world, that you lose your sense of reality, get lost in the infinite cosmos of the game. You become crazy. Magnus Carlsen
2010

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