Title created by FIDE in 1990, based on points scored in FIDE Album.
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Quotes of the Day
In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have to develop within yourself a large number of qualities, the qualities of an artistic creator, a calculating practitioner, a cold calm competitor.
Alexander Kotov
Magnus is playing fantastic and I play like I always play, pretty badly
Anish Giri 2017
I personally believe that Karpov should have been more generous with Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. Kirsan is the only president in the history of FIDE, and maybe in the history of all international federations, who has contributed dozens of million dollars for the sport he loves. By the way, some of these millions went directly to Anatoly’s pocket…
George Makropoulos 2005
Time trouble is blunder time.
Alexander Kotov
Never felt more like singin’ the blues, cos I never thought that I’d ever lose…
Vladimir Kramnik 2017