When I analyse a position, I have a sparring partner who understands chess amazingly well. In a way I feel sorry for him, because of his work with me…

- Boris Gelfand

I believe that, not only in chess, but in life in general, people place too much stock in ratings – they pay attention to which TV shows have the hig…

- Boris Gelfand

The good thing in chess is that very often the best moves are the most beautiful ones. The beauty of logic.

- Boris Gelfand

I am pleased that in a match for the World Championship I was able to conduct a game in the style of Akiba Rubinstein, where the entire strategic cou…

- Boris Gelfand

A lot of these ideas are built under wrong presumptions which officials have that chess players are lazy bastards whose sole idea is to deceive (the)…

- Boris Gelfand

If you watch it, you should watch it with other players and try to find moves, like it was before. Now on many sites you watch together with the comp…

- Boris Gelfand