MATCH OF THE CENTURY

The title given to the first match between the teams of USSR and the Rest of the World held in Belgrade in 1970 (see USSR vs. Rest of the World).

The main thing is that you’ve got to keep on studying however old you are. You can’t just rely on your capital, so you have to try and keep up, and that is a difficult task. Nigel Short
2016
Magnus is playing fantastic and I play like I always play, pretty badly Anish Giri
2017
The Golden Age, when machines were weak and my hair was strong! Garry Kasparov
2017
I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up. Magnus Carlsen
Carlsen is paying far less attention to opening theory than his rivals, he is happy to go down paths that may offer no advantage yet have the benefit of dragging opponents out of their “openings book”. Once beyond the reaches of computer-aided openings, Carlsen starts to turn the screw. Judith Polgar
FT, 2014

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