Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.
I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.
I don't play in tournaments, but I follow some.
I don't want ever to be champion again.
The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.
Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?
The thought was, 'We're going to go to California, where the soil is black and ten feet deep, and there are no rocks, and there's gold in the hills. ' The West becomes the surface onto which people project their fantasies, where once the future had been the place they projected their fantasies. So it's not just the war that ends the utopian communities, but what follows.
We are always in our own company.