To lose one's objective attitude to a position, nearly always means ruining your game.

The most powerful weapon in Chess is to have the next move

In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.

The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.

A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.

Chess is imagination.

When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, along the narrow path of 'the only move'.

Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the most thorough fashion.

Far from all of the obvious moves that go without saying are correct.

Theory regards this opening as incorrect, but it is impossible to agree with this. Out of the five tournament games played by me with the King's Gambit, I have won all five.

Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending.

You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him.""So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters, ' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

In the midst of your doubts don't forget how many of the important questions God does answer.

People look at me and see a calm, cool guy on the sidelines and I want them to know that my Christian faith affects my coaching and everything I do.

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

The crucial thing is to look in an informed way at what's going on. Look at the way in which we are forced by our imbalanced system to push away people who might contribute mightily to the NHS.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

Despatch is taking time by the ears; hurry is taking it by the end of the tail.

Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality.

The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life.