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

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

Just because something is a standard doesn’t mean it is the right choice for every application. Like XML, for example.

There's no room to Rhumba in a sports car.

If you share a faith, there is an immediate foundation of trust there.

The first thing I really enjoy is to make love, after comes the music.

They wanted them to look like the Gods. God doesn't look like this.

Comedy distances pain, but leaves signs of it everywhere.

Remember, only a policeman is allowed to express himself on an expressway.

For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common ground, a place where sound was alien.

There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important.

must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.