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"Chess is mental torture."
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"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."
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"My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs."
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"The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner."
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"I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting."
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"Chess is intellectual gymnastics."
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"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."
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"The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost."
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"Chess is the gymnasium of the mind."
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"I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt."
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"Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways."
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"Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials."
Power
"I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels."
Vision
"We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types."
Old
"I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore."
Decision
"I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections."
People
"I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention."
People
"Chess is mental torture."
Chess
"I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security."
Action
"More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people."
People
"I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country."
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