When you have finished analyzing all the variations and gone along all the branches of the tree of analysis you must first of all write the move down on your score sheet, before you play it.

Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.

Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!

You must not let your opponent know how you feel.

It is better to follow out a plan consistently even if it isn't the best one than to play without a plan at all. The worst thing is to wander about aimlessly.

The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess.

Sit there for five hours? Certainly not! A player must walk about between moves, it helps his thinking.

The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.

I can remember a case where Capablanca worked out an impressive combination, but then chose to make a simple move in answer to which his opponent resigned at once!

Time trouble is blunder time.

In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only.

A tingling in her spine warned her the path that lay ahead was dangerous, but her curiosity placated her, driving her onward against her instincts.

It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.

Friends have ways of speaking without words.

The best is the enemy of good.

If I die tomorrow, I'll be alright because I believe that after we're gone, spirit carries on...

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

My first fight was a little weasel from American called Andre Dirrell. I say that because he runs and holds, and I hope Abraham bangs him out.

There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.

Animation is capable to go beyond superego defense strategies and touch deep human being contents as no other art expression.