Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.

The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.

The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.

No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

Chess you don't learn, chess you understand.

Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.

Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.

As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.

I don't study; I create.

The value of a substance is the product of the time spent to achieve it

If you want a work well done select a busy man: the other kind has no time.

To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.

There have been a few players described as the new George Best over the years, but this is the first time its been a compliment to me.

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.

Hitting your head against a wall is not the fastest way to move it.

My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.

It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.

Suffering = Pain x Resistance