You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

I feel that my chess strengths are still here, ... I believe I can still improve.

I am lucky, ... that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.

Chess is mental torture.

All women are inferior to men.

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.