"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…"

"A lot of Russians who previously supported Putin openly or did not say anything about it, chose to turn around and ar…"

"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."