SCHACHWOCHE

One of the great weekly magazines from Switzerland which ran from 1979 until May 2003. The chief redactor was Werner Widmer.

I have often written that Karpov is like an iceberg. Well, Kasparov was the Titanic. Alexander Roshal
When I saw MVL’s position, it is like a football match where you’re 3:0 down, with two minutes to go and you’re down to 10 men! Lev Aronian
2016
When Korchnoi was living in the USSR I called him ‘hero of socialist labour’; when he moved to the West I renamed him ‘hero of capitalist labour’! Boris Spassky
Unfortunately this gentlemanlike behaviour among chessplayers is out of fashion. It’s my principle that you should respect your opponent as much as you respect yourself. Lajos Portisch
1990
The duty of a World Champion is not only to play games but also to explain to the public why he is winning Garry Kasparov
NIC 1989

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