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A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.

For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

Chess is mental torture.

I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.

You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.