Carlsen: “I ran out of steam towards the end but fortunately I played better than he did”
Magnus Carlsen 2017
Looks like I’m going to raise the average age of the field and lower the average rating!
Garry Kasparov 2017
” (about Lasker) For me, this personality, notwithstanding his fundamentally optimistic attitude, had a tragic note. The enormous mental resilience, without which no chess player can exist, was so much taken up by chess that he could never free his mind of this game, even when he was occupied by philosophical and humanitarian questions.”
Albert Einstein
Carlsen is a combination of Karpov and Fischer style.
Garry Kasparov 2017
When I am White I win because I am White. When I am Black I win because I am Bogoljubov.
Efim Bogoljubov