If I’m thinking for more than 20 minutes about one move, it’s usually a waste. Sometimes you can come up with some amazing solution but most of the time you just end up looping: you consider a move, you reject it, then you’re desperate, you come back to the move, you don’t remember why you rejected it, you have to make a move so you make it – then your opponent replies and you remember why you rejected it. The longest wait I ever did between moves was one hour and five minutes – and the move was horrible.
Magnus Carlsen 2016
I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess. Others give only 2 percent!
Robert Fischer
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game
Siegbert Tarrasch
Kramnik was the luckiest man in the history of chess. He never won a single cycle, he got all the matches that he played for political reasons.
Veselin Topalov 2014
To Put It Mildly, I Have Not a Bit of Respect For Topalov
Vladimir Kramnik 2015
