"I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any"
"The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time"
"I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore"
