“When I am trying to understand the method of winning in the endgame with two bishops against the knight, chess is a science, when I admire a beautiful combination or study, then chess is art, and when I am complicating position in the approaching time trouble of my opponent, then chess is sport.”

S'pore Chess News, 7 September 2010 http://www.singaporechessnews.com/reflections_1.html

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