No player, however strong, no member, however large, shall stand above FIDE
Florencio Campomanes
Ten years ago I said that 2010 would be the end, chess would be exhausted. But it is not true, chess will not die so quickly.
Vishy Anand 2008
it would have been a debacle if Karjakin had become the 17th World Champion.
Garry Kasparov 2016
” The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.”
Alexander Alekhine
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
Marcel Duchamp
