If the 12th game (from the match Carlsen-Karjakin)… were a restaurant dish, I would send it back to the chef.
Nigel Short 2016
A game of chess has three phases: the opening, where you hope you stand better; the middlegame, where you think you stand better; and the ending, where you know you stand to lose.
Savielly Tartakower
After the 2nd game I could have returned to Moscow. There was only one way I could have won this match.
Boris Spassky (1974)
I believe that every world champion has a greatness of his own.
Kiril Georgiev 2017
When I am in the USSR, I have the feeling that every tram conductor plays chess better than I do.
Hans Ree
