I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.

Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game

If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off

I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them.

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.

If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.

Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo <2000, as fly-swatting makes poor spectator sport. (on simultaneous exhibitions)

Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.

Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that.

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.

I don't know if you've ever been covered head to toe in prickle bush, but let me tell you, it's not a pleasant experience, as I'm sure you can imagine.

Is typecasting really a problem?

There is often a big disparity between the way in which we perceive things and the way things really are.

People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four.

Ah, but the servant waits, while the master baits.

The murder of a man is still murder, even in wartime.

It stirs up envy, fame does.

He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.