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

The only good Rook is a working Rook!

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.

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

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.

What we do with our lives largely depends on the philosophy of life we have subjected our lives to as a way of living life, and which controls, move and directs our lives!

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

Don't talk yourself into not being you.

Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.

There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness. George S. Patton Jr.

It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.

I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.

I want to win a gold medal in London.

I grew up in a household of girls, so I would just pick up naturally what everyone else was doing.

The Second Amendment was designed explicitly to protect weapons that would be useful in a military context.