REFUTATION

Analysis proving that a previously accepted move or variation is inferior upon comparison to a better one, assuming best play on both sides.

Chess should not become an obsession. Otherwise there’s a danger that you will slide off into a parallel world, that you lose your sense of reality, get lost in the infinite cosmos of the game. You become crazy. Magnus Carlsen
2010
Of chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not chess. Irving Chernev
In the 70s Karpov was a darling of the Politburo or the political elite. So Kramnik is now. Just like the old days. But at least Karpov, unlike him, played in and won qualifying matches. Veselin Topalov
I have often written that Karpov is like an iceberg. Well, Kasparov was the Titanic. Alexander Roshal
” The essence of chess is thinking about what chess is.” David Bronstein

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