If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
I'm a pretty good chess player.
Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won.
It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.
Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.
Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have been around during the fervor of the match in Reykjavik and the rise of Bobby Fischer, so those two things conspired to pique my interest.
Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games.
When a man returned from the field and we'd look at the work, we'd criticize each other very genuinely and never offensively. And we would avoid all tricks, angle shots were just horrible to us.
Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.
I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.