Title created by FIDE in 1953 and awarded annually by ICCF and approved by FIDE.
ECHESSPEDIA
Quotes of the Day
We must finish once and for all with the neutrality of chess. We must condemn once and for all the formula “chess for the sake of chess”, like the formula “art for art’s sake”. We must organize shock brigades of chess-players, and begin immediate realization of a Five-Year Plan for chess.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko
As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.
Mark Dvoretsky
Carlsen is a combination of Karpov and Fischer style.
Garry Kasparov 2017
Fischer was the first to send me a telegram when I was in Amsterdam after I had defected, saying ‘Congratulations on the correct move’.
Vikor Kortchnoi 1986 NIC
I think I am certainly more talented than many other people. But I don’t know what talent consists of.
Magnus Carlsen 2014