Championship Quote by Lev Polugaevsky

Your Soviet players are cheating, losing the games on purpose to my rival, Botvinnik, in order to increase his points on the score. -…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

Now that the Cold War is over with, it's kind of hard to take the Soviet Union seriously. We won, period. We ran them…

— John Mearsheimer

In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented…

— Pal Benko

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

— Garry Kasparov

In Russia itself the proletariat conquered in spite of the fact that there was no Soviet State in existence at the time elsewhere. For…

— Leon Trotsky

The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.

— Alexander Kotov

In so-called communist Romania, chess was held in high esteem, even if our champions were weaker than the Soviets. This game, this "sport of…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

Soviet mathematics was particularly good in the second half of the 20th century, basically because of the arms race, because the Soviet Union realized...…

— Masha Gessen

We weren't more physical than Russia, we didn't play faster than Brazil, but we 'out-teamed' our opponents.

— Hugh McCutcheon

So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or…

— Ralph Boston

The system set up by F.I.D.E. ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion... The Russians arranged it that way.

— Bobby Fischer

I always like it when I win, especially against a Soviet.

— Dave Schultz