I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.
Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again.
The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.
Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.
I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter, because the truth is that all pursuits are connected if we gain an eye for the thematic links.
Chess is intellectual gymnastics.