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
Carlsen is paying far less attention to opening theory than his rivals, he is happy to go down paths that may offer no advantage yet have the benefit of dragging opponents out of their “openings book”. Once beyond the reaches of computer-aided openings, Carlsen starts to turn the screw. Judith Polgar
FT, 2014
Peter Svidler clearly needs to be more ambitious and take more risk. 12 draws out of 14 games, I mean, come on, that’s not a Champion’s attitude there! Anish Giri
Botvinnik, Korchnoi and Kasparov had to hate the opponent to play successfully. I belong to a different type of chess players. I’m like Keres, Spassky and Portisch. On the board we fight, but in life we get along great. Anatoly Karpov
2015
I think I am certainly more talented than many other people. But I don’t know what talent consists of. Magnus Carlsen
2014

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