I don’t particularly like being searched electronically. It is inconceivable that such a thing would happen in any other sport. It is fundamentally anti-chess, and I think the people who are behind this decision need their heads looked at! They are sick! They are ruining the very beauty that is chess.
Nigel Short 2016
I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
Robert Fischer 1971
Looks like I’m going to raise the average age of the field and lower the average rating!
Garry Kasparov 2017
Chess is my hobby. I have been playing chess since five years old. I like to play chess, to help chess, sponsoring chess, and attract my business friends to chess in order to develop and popularize chess. Everybody has a hobby. My hobby is chess, boxing and Buddhism.
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov 2010
it would have been a debacle if Karjakin had become the 17th World Champion.
Garry Kasparov 2016
