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Three of my children are here, but Polina, who is twenty-five, is a graduate student in philosophy. So I am raising two, yes. I am an incorrigible optimist by nature. The future is a self-fulfilling prophecy. I believe this firmly. I am fervently in favor of resuming space exploration. We have to start living in the algorithm of exploration again. I moved here permanently in February, I had to. We had a place here. Aida was born here, in We were paying taxes here. If you exit at all.

It was one of the cases stemming from the protests of — I happened to be abroad when we got the call, and I never went back. Soon after, you started the Free Russia Forum, an organization for political activists in exile. In December we are going to hold our sixth conference, in Vilnius, Lithuania.

I am always amazed at the civic courage of the people who come from Russia, because this is a gathering that Channel One covers as a congress of the enemies of the people. Marat Guelman is starting to organize a culture track.

We talk about the sanctions. This time we are going to talk about the church schism. We talk about how the state should be constituted and we discuss the mistakes of the past. What happened that led to the Russian Constitution, which virtually made Putin inevitable? We need these kinds of discussions so that if a window opens up—as I think it will—we have an accumulation of intellectual capital that will allow us to avoid making the same mistakes.

Dictatorships fall unexpectedly. The church schism is a very serious topic. In effect, it constitutes the end of the Russian concept of religious autocracy. Now Ukraine, Belarus, and a couple of Russian regions are splitting off—they are returning to Europe after three hundred and thirty years. In other words, Russia is being isolated. You can see that when the minister of defense of the Netherlands says that they are in a state of cyberwar with Russia.

England has stopped just short of saying that. I recall that when you and I spoke in , you were sure that the system was at the edge of collapse. The West addressed the financial crisis by printing a giant amount of money, and a lot of that money went to Russia, as payment for oil. Back in it was still possible to influence Putin.

Russia was more integrated into the world. Then there was And now the outside world itself is unstable. How dependent were these people? They keep their money in the West, after all. I can imagine a scenario in which things would have worked out differently. But that would have required more decisive action on the part of the protesters. If you had to do it over again, as one of the leaders of the protest, what would you have done differently?

I think we had a chance on December 24th. No one was prepared to take responsibility for dispersing the protesters. In Moscow we had a hundred and twenty thousand people in the street. We had the option of laying siege to the building of the Central Election Commission and demanding that election results be annulled. Another was the Maydan option. Instead, we went on holiday break. Leaders of the protests took their planned vacations; I came to America to see my kids.

We should have maintained the revolutionary momentum. On February 4th, we had an even bigger crowd, but, by that time, they were prepared for it. They cracked down, but now their scorched-earth approach is going to backfire.

Whatever protest comes next, it will be spontaneous and will come out of nowhere, or everywhere at once. The thing is, young people keep coming out to protest. And still things are happening. I just said that the system is unstable. There are different ways they can play out. I believe that anything is better than Putin because that eliminates the probability of a nuclear war.

Putin is insane. He is an aging paranoid dictator who may be losing power. Anyone who replaces him, any new system, however ugly it may be, will aim to reach some understanding with the West. They have their financial interests, if nothing else. The greatest danger today stems from Putin, both because he is uncontrollable and because his staying in power serves to encourage the worst impulses of all the Saudi, Arab, and other dictators. So, if Putin goes, that will be a positive.

Back in Russia, you had a team of bodyguards and you consumed only food and drink that had been kept securely. Do you feel safe here? But what can I do? Fortunately, in America there is a city called St. And there is the Sinquefield family, and Rex Sinquefield, whose Saint Louis Chess Club spends millions of dollars a year to promote chess. I work with them a lot. Twice a year I hold sessions for gifted children. I want chess tournaments to be a commercial enterprise and chess to be a professional game.

For now I feel optimistic. I play a little bit when I go to St. No, I enjoy playing. Everyone there respects the game. That makes me feel comfortable playing there, even if I know that I can no longer win. How does the greatest chess player in history feel being unable to win? I can play a strong chunk of a game, or I can win one game in a beautiful way. By Erin Overbey. This is the essential element that cannot be measured by any analysis or device, and I believe it's at the heart of success in all things: the power of intuition and the ability to harness and use it like a master.

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The international community has to face up to that. Kasparov is also squaring up for battle on a second front as he attempts to capitalise on the extraordinary chess boom of the past year by launching Kasparovchess. The website is backed by the French multinational Vivendi, but Kasparov knows the competition will be intense. However when it comes to content, I think we will be superior.

We will be offering even more, at a much lower price. While they might be rivals in business, it is obvious Kasparov has immense respect for Carlsen, who has been the world No 1 since , and world champion since The pair worked together, briefly, when the Norwegian was a teenager and Kasparov still follows his games closely. And he has this motivation, like Bobby Fischer, to win and to fight — and also an ability to use every resource like Anatoly Karpov.

But Magnus has already clearly had a phenomenal career. More than that, he has helped make chess mainstream. But there is a word of warning for the reigning world champion too.