You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of chess theory, of chess culture.

Capablanca's play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in this simplicity there was a unique beauty of genuine depth.

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

A knight ending is really a pawn ending.

Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.

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

I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been significantly greater. I can play chess well only when I have fully convalesced from chess and when the 'hunger for chess' once more awakens within me.