It is not possible to become a great player without having learned how to analyse deeply and accurately.
Mark Dvoretsky
Now, at 51, in my life I have reach the stage between the middlegame and the endgame. But I don’t have the feeling that I am in the endgame already.
Boris Spassky 1988 NIC
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
To Put It Mildly, I Have Not a Bit of Respect For Topalov
Vladimir Kramnik 2015
No player, however strong, no member, however large, shall stand above FIDE
Florencio Campomanes