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
” Chess is a sport. A violent sport.”
Marcel Duchamp
” Oh, those exclamation points! How they erode the innocent soul of the amateur, removing all hope of allowing him to examine another player’s ideas critically!”
Tigran Petrosian
People knew about 110 years of chess history. Nowadays, nobody is able to tell you the name of the world champion of 2000.
Anatoly Karpov 2005
I think I would beat Tal pretty easily. Fischer would be more difficult, but I think I could beat him too.
Magnus Carlsen
