I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.

A lifetime in not enough to learn everything about chess.

Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.

When asked, -How is that you pick better moves than your opponents?, I responded: I'm very glad you asked me that, because, as it happens, there is a very simple answer. I think up my own moves, and I make my opponent think up his

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

Chess is not only knowledge and logic