Title inaugurated in 1978 for a player with an ELO rating around 2300, after recommendation of his national federation.
ECHESSPEDIA
Quotes of the Day
This one hour allows me to put the problem into the background and then, when I come back, I am much more rational and less emotional about the particular problem and I can think better about it.
G. Borg 2016
Magnus is playing fantastic and I play like I always play, pretty badly
Anish Giri 2017
Kasparov doesn’t care about chess, but only about himself and his political goals
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov 2015
I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middle-game!
David Janowski
” Kasparov was like Samson, but his hair has been shorn (2000).”
Nathan Divinsky