"I wanted to say it was a good fake, but no. It was a bad fake."

"Many people ask if I regret my public support of the special operation? After all, I have already lost invitations to…"

"Sergey Karjakin is found guilty of breach of article 2.2.10 of the FIDE Code of Ethics, and is sanctioned to a worldw…"

"I think Sergey went over the top in quite a few of his statements. He’s definitely entitled to an opinion, but some o…"

"I saw what he’s been writing on Twitter — I have nothing to say against Sergey, but I think he’s lost his mind in the…"

"Later, I began to succeed in decisive games, perhaps because I realised a very simple truth: not only was I worried, …"

"To play for a draw, at any rate with White, is to some degree a crime against chess."

"When one of us first plays chess, he is like a man who has already caught a dose of microbes of, say, Hong Kong flu. …"

"You must take your opponent into a deep, dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one."

"There are two kinds of sacrifices: correct ones, and mine."