Mikhail Botvinnik Quotes
If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.
If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it.
When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete variations.
In short, we can see Karpov as an exploiter of other people’s ideas. His ability to use these ideas is not at issue, but he himself is about as fertile as a woman who has been sterilized is.
Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline
Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is closely linked with plans for the middle game.
The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession
Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board
It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.
I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own.
There is no better place for learning to work independently and to extend your horizon than in higher school.
With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop.
Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.
Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to organize their creative work
It must be clearly understood that Soviet players do not seek simple systems in the opening, but try to formulate opening systems in which everything is complicated, distinctive, or new.
Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible.
You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of chess theory, of chess culture.
Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all.
Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists
If Tal would learn to program himself properly, then it would become quite impossible to play against him.
It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers.
