FIDE Master

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

I think I am certainly more talented than many other people. But I don’t know what talent consists of. Magnus Carlsen
2014
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
My chess method is without formulas, without orthodox thinking. I always explain that chess is an art and that there are no definite judgments. Lev Polugaevsky
1990 NIC
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game Siegbert Tarrasch
When I am in the USSR, I have the feeling that every tram conductor plays chess better than I do. Hans Ree

error: Content is protected !!