No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.

The only good Rook is a working Rook!

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

It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning endgame.

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.

And she's like, you know, the 'Grace' in U2's song, the one that 'carries the world on her hips'.” - Diana Rigsby, M.D. Ph.D.

The disruption of science is one which abandons the method and seeks to conquer grounds outside its territory. It is not at all religion but this pseudo-science that is the enemy of science.

The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.

It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.

I have just committed the mortal sin of laughing in the Members' Library. No-one around here has done that for a while.

I don t get through many pairs. Luckily enough they are very hard wearing.

I don't usually stink. But I stunk today.

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.

I'm kind of under the radar. Not a lot of people notice me. Which is surprising, because I'm so sexy. They're probably intimidated by my sexiness and crushability.