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"Chess is mental torture."
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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 Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that."
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"In Kansas I have a chess school."
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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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"My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs."
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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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"Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways."
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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 not for timid souls."
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"Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic."
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"We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types."
Old
"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
"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've met enough KGB colonels in my life."
Life
"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
"Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin."
Parliament
"The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media."
Life
"There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin."
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"Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters."
Nature
"It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess."
Life
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