In my 36 years experience, I've never been under any kind of clock, chess or otherwise. Judges move cases along, that's their function. But I've never heard of having to punch a clock.

To touch is to experience, but to feel is to live

I feel that my chess strengths are still here, ... I believe I can still improve.

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ...
It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

I am lucky, ... that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.

Hotels are probably the best design showrooms for beds and home furnishings that exist right now. People can experience luxury with us for a night or two, then decide what they want for their home. You know, it's awfully hard to spend the night at Bloomingdale's.