Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.

If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it.

Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately

When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete variations.

Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.

In short, we can see Karpov as an exploiter of other people’s ideas. His ability to use these ideas is not at issue, but he himself is about as fertile as a woman who has been sterilized is.

Chess is the art of analysis.

Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is closely linked with plans for the middle game.

Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline

Protect your self-esteem and self-confidence - it is your responsibility!

You can call a thing possible which is still to happen, but not which has already taken place.

You are here for a reason.

A person who is insane has no sense of their place; they've lost that ability, which our friend don Juan describes as the tonal.

Don't say 'what,' say 'pardon,' darling, and do as your mother tells you.

Don't dress for fashion, dress for yourself

Prayer must emanate from the heart, where God resides, and not from the head where doctrines and doubts clash.

But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.

It is better to know what to fear than to say 'no fear.'

America's government has to get the public investments right.