When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, along the narrow path of 'the only move'.

The most powerful weapon in Chess is to have the next move

In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.

To lose one's objective attitude to a position, nearly always means ruining your game.

The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.

A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.

Chess is imagination.

Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the most thorough fashion.

Far from all of the obvious moves that go without saying are correct.

Theory regards this opening as incorrect, but it is impossible to agree with this. Out of the five tournament games played by me with the King's Gambit, I have won all five.

Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending.

I’ve always hated the “Who are you?" question. This is a philosophical inquiry. Answering that question is why we’re on earth. You can’t answer it in thirty seconds or in an elevator.

It will be a great day in this world when nobody wants anything because everyone has given and there is nothing left to take.

I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.

Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks.

If you don't risk doing something foolish, you'll never do anything special.

I don't think I was a fine game coach I think I was a good practice coach.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl? The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one.

I have no intention of sharing my authority.

Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy