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'Never in my life have I planned anything that didn't happen'
(Überschrift NIC Magazine 1/1984, p. 29; Florcencio Campomanes zum Wettkampf UdSSR - Rest der Welt)
'Everything that I want or dream of actually happens'
(Überschrift zum Interview mit Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, NIC Magazine 7/2007, p. 26)

"Chess theory has reached a point where words like 'understanding' and 'talent' will soon be replaced by 'perfect analysis' and 'good memory'."
(Topalov, NIC Magazine 7/2007, p. 22)

"I didn't know the theory, but that doesn't matter. Normally in modern chess if you have positional skills you will find the theoretical lines yourself - the theoretical moves or maybe even better."
(Aronian, New in Chess 8/2006)

Bronstein über Schiedsrichter: "However it's hard to change these rules [time control]. Because in the world there is an enormous army of chess arbiters. And they don't like to work quickly. During tournaments they want to relax. And when you play a five-hour game, their 'holidays' last four or even four and a half hours. And only when time-trouble becomes imminent do they come up to the boards and assume an air of importance. An excellent little job! With the rapid play everything would have changed. This is the problem."
(Bronstein, NIC Magazine, 1/2007, p. 58)

"I knew that, when attacking along the eighth rank, contrary to the desires of beginners it is the queen that should stand behind the rook."
(Bronstein, NIC Magazine, 1/2007, p. 61)

"Die Relativitäts-Theorie als Ganzes, als ein System der Erklärung der Wirklichkeit, ist irrig sowohl in ihren Methoden wie in ihren Ergebnissen."
(Em. Lasker, Die Kultur in Gefahr (Berlin 1928), p. 27)