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)

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

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.

God is good all the time!!

The significance of the dwelling is in the dweller.

I know I play with danger every time I swim, but I need this. I’m Mer and the ocean is mine.

Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.

Every person writes his own book with the example of his life.

Never judge a book by its "spine".

Apartheid cannot be reformed, it has to be eliminated.

In order to create an alternative an oppressed group must at once shatter the self-reflecting world which encircles it and, at the same time, project its own image onto history.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

Adult stem cells tend not to form tumors.