GRAND MASTERS ASSOCIATION

Non-profit association funded in February 1987 at Brussels by the World Champion G. Kasparov and the Belgian businessman B. Kok with the aim to generate ‘a high quality environment for chess and to promote professional chess by Grandmasters’. It created also chess events named ‘World Cup Tournaments’ (final standing won by Kasparov) running from 1988 until 1991. After an agreement signed with FIDE in 1990, GMA co-organized the world chess championship in New-York and Lyon 1990. Following internal problems starting in 1990 with the resignation of Kasparov as President, the association stopped its activities in March 1993. GMA

Kutin, Anderton, Makropoulos, Kok, Timman, Ditt, Kinzel and Schulz

I thank the Lord for not pairing me with Black against Magnus Carlsen in the first round. Nigel Short
2017
FIDE is now a political organization. And being a political organization, it, of course, means that people in FIDE have some other interests – that is, to sit in their positions for the next hundred years. Silvio Danailov
2016
Some twenty years ago an English journalist complained that in sports, only chess and marbles were above suspicion. One wonders what has happened in the world of marbles. Hans Ree
When you see a good move, look for a better one Emanuel Lasker
With the modern computer age, there are some new ideas, but the principles are basically the same… I try not to over-focus on preparation. Magnus Carlsen
2012

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