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.

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.

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

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.

I have started all over again so many times in life and i finally came to the conclusion that i was only making continuations into other gateways but only stronger than before

In truly deep darkness, all kinds of strange things were possible.

Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.

Truthfulness itself is almost medication, even when it’s served without advice or insight.

There never seems to be any trouble brewing around a bar until a woman puts that high heel over the brass rail. Don't ask me why, but somehow women at bars seem to create trouble among men.

Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion; great understanding goes with great compassion.

Not every day can be an easy one, nor every day fully happy; but even a day of tough going and difficulty can be a good day.

When I stopped doing ballet, I started training in the pool. I would do my barre exercises in the water, because that prevents injuries.

I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.

Decisions decide destiny, there is no action without decision