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"The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that."

"My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs."

"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."

"The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner."

"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."

"I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess."

"Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways."

"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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"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."

"We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types."

"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."

"Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin."

"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by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people."

"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."

"I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention."

"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."
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