Chess Quote by Mikhail Botvinnik

The Soviet system is how everything here works. It's very difficult to break the system. The system is big and inflexible, uneffective, and also…

— Vitali Klitschko

Just as it is wrong to work on chess by studying only the first 10-15 moves, so it is wrong to play one and…

— Efim Geller

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

The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad terms, way beyond the…

— Anatoliy Golitsyn

Titled players appeared to be trotting out game after game in which the same old hoary opening sequences, memorized out to fifteen, twenty, or…

— Steve Lopez

Visitors who come from the Soviet Union and tell you how marvelous it is to be able to look at public buildings without advertisements…

— Clive James

We all are interested in an open development, without any prejudice; this refers particularly and, perhaps, primarily to the Baltic countries, for them it…

— Vladimir Putin

The Russians right now require a customer coming in and spending about six months or so in Russia and they have to learn some…

— Leroy Chiao

My hypothesis is that for people who are both trained and inclined to think in rigorously logical ways, it is particularly difficult to adapt…

— Masha Gessen

For them (the peoples of the Soviet Union) We cherish the warmest paternal affection. We are well aware that not a few of them…

— Pope Pius XI

“The peoples of the Soviet Union, in many respects, impress me as people who can not yet afford to be honest. When they can…

— Audre Lorde

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