Magnus is playing fantastic and I play like I always play, pretty badly
Anish Giri 2017
When Korchnoi was living in the USSR I called him ‘hero of socialist labour’; when he moved to the West I renamed him ‘hero of capitalist labour’!
Boris Spassky
In the past twenty years Kramnik has played a few thousand games, and if you show me a position from one of them, in 90 percent of the time I will be able to tell you which game it is from.
Vishy Anand 2008
It’s always more difficult to hold the title than to get it.
Vladimir Akopian 2012
I think I am certainly more talented than many other people. But I don’t know what talent consists of.
Magnus Carlsen 2014
