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"Chess is mental torture."
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"Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though."
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"What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess."
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"Chess is the gymnasium of the mind."
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"Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess."
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"I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess."
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"Chess first of all teaches you to be objective."
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"The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner."
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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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"Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess."
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"I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event."
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"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."
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"It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess."
Life
"There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes."
Power
"We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types."
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"I've met enough KGB colonels in my life."
Life
"I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy."
Capitalism
"It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game."
Power
"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'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay."
Years
"The only successor to President Putin is President Putin himself and we could of course dream about President Putin stepping down voluntarily and picking out successor which would be probably as bad as him."
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