Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists

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.

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it.

Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately

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.

Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.

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 the art of analysis.

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.

Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a tremendous cost.

Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.

It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.

My brain's not sharp enough to come up with a witty comment.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

Sinners think they are saints, but saints know they are sinners.

Love seeks a guerdon; friendship is as God,Who gives and asks no payment.

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

This manifesto only refers to future marriages, and does not affect past conditions.