It is not possible to become a great player without having learned how to analyse deeply and accurately.
Mark Dvoretsky
In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have to develop within yourself a large number of qualities, the qualities of an artistic creator, a calculating practitioner, a cold calm competitor.
Alexander Kotov
it would have been a debacle if Karjakin had become the 17th World Champion.
Garry Kasparov 2016
As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.
Mark Dvoretsky
Parapsychology? That’s a bunch of bananas. Korchnoi believes in that. He is still playing his game with the ghost of Geza Maroczy.
Nathan Divinsky 2004
