Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization.

The only good Rook is a working Rook!

Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience.

It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning endgame.

No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.

My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian

Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.

Tartakower once wrote that after planting a Knight in the center you can go to sleep. This is not to be taken literally, of course, but it contains more than a germ of truth.

What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties: isolated, doubled, too advanced, retarded.

I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.

To think or not to think? That is the new question.

I'd rather be the one making mistakes than the one laughing at someone making mistakes, for that laughing person is a wimp." ~ Denise Mansfield Bradberry.

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.

A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.

People love being scared, even for long periods of time.

A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned.

I've always been the bookish type, and I've never really hidden that about myself.

The experience taught me to be present in the real Buddhist sense of paying attention to the moment.

I tend not to look back. It's confusing.