When I play well, I don’t win!
Maxime Vachier Lagrave 2017
We must finish once and for all with the neutrality of chess. We must condemn once and for all the formula “chess for the sake of chess”, like the formula “art for art’s sake”. We must organize shock brigades of chess-players, and begin immediate realization of a Five-Year Plan for chess.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko
I will be World Champion, if not now I will be World Champion later, but of course better now!
Sergey Karjakin 2016
Petrosian-Spassky? To think I could have watched an excellent football match instead!
Mikhail Tal 1966
I think I like chess. That’s the main reason that I’m able to play at a reasonably high level – that I really love chess. Always have and always will (smiles). It’s the best game in the world!
Nigel Short 2016
