Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.
Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it
I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.
The placing of the center pawns determines the 'topography' of a game of chess.
These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.
Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from which one can begin to grasp the secrets of chess.
Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.
Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?
The only good Rook is a working Rook!
In positions of strategic manoeuvring (where time is not of decisive importance) seek the worst-placed piece. Activating that piece is often the most reliable way of improving your position as a whole.
Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.
I am more strongly confirmed than ever in the belief that the time devoted to chess is literally frittered away.
All Chess players should have a hobby
Every Chess master was once a beginner
Attack! Always Attack!
I look one move ahead. . . the best!
It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.