You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.

I do not play chess – I fight at chess. Therefore, I willingly combine the tactical with the strategic, the fantastic with the scientific, the combinative with the positional, and I aim to respond to the demands of each given position.

In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.

Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy.

The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It makes little difference whether this originality is carried to excess, as was the case with Steinitz and Nimzowitsch.

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.