” (about Lasker) For me, this personality, notwithstanding his fundamentally optimistic attitude, had a tragic note. The enormous mental resilience, without which no chess player can exist, was so much taken up by chess that he could never free his mind of this game, even when he was occupied by philosophical and humanitarian questions.”
Albert Einstein
it would have been a debacle if Karjakin had become the 17th World Champion.
Garry Kasparov 2016
Some players lose ability to think independently and rely on computers completely.
Lajos Portisch 2012
I believe that every world champion has a greatness of his own.
Kiril Georgiev 2017
After the 2nd game I could have returned to Moscow. There was only one way I could have won this match.
Boris Spassky (1974)
