Psychologically, the choice of an appropriate opening is of the utmost importance for a player's success in a tournament.

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.

I talk to myself because I like dealing with a better class of people.

No one ever won a game by resigning.

The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake.

Seize the outpost K5 with your knight, and you can go to sleep. Checkmate will come by itself.

The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player.

To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game

A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!

The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing

The mistakes are there, waiting to be made

I discovered that those who seldom dwell on their emotions know better than anyone else just what an emotion is.

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children.

As a competitor, you have to learn pretty quickly how to deal with pressure.

We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget.

Punk Funk means to be one with yourself. To be rebellious, aggressive, able to do and say what you feel at all times, without inflicting mental or spiritual pain.

People read fiction... to learn something about how to live their lives.

I think people thought that if [Donald Trump] won, he'd win by one state the way that President [George W.] Bush did.

Hasn’t anyone ever told you? Life isn’t fair.

A man isn't tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.