FIDE Master

Title inaugurated in 1978 for a player with an ELO rating around 2300, after recommendation of his national federation.

I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone’s hand off if he puts it in my mouth Wilhelm Steinitz
What am I doing in this pool of piranhas? Nigel Short
2017
The main thing is that you’ve got to keep on studying however old you are. You can’t just rely on your capital, so you have to try and keep up, and that is a difficult task. Nigel Short
2016
If I’m thinking for more than 20 minutes about one move, it’s usually a waste. Sometimes you can come up with some amazing solution but most of the time you just end up looping: you consider a move, you reject it, then you’re desperate, you come back to the move, you don’t remember why you rejected it, you have to make a move so you make it – then your opponent replies and you remember why you rejected it. The longest wait I ever did between moves was one hour and five minutes – and the move was horrible. Magnus Carlsen
2016
It’s always better to sacrifice your opponent’s men Savielly Tartakower

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