46 Quotes by Boris Spassky

The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.

Nowadays it would be reasonable to have an annual world championship.

Time control directly influences the quality of play.

I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else.

I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.

When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally.

Recently I saw Kasparov and he looked to me as still young and potent champion.

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.