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

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

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.

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

Chess is a matter of vanity.

A lifetime in not enough to learn everything about chess.

Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against his will, whose notion of Beauty always differs from yours and whose means (strength, imagination, technique) are often too limited to help you effectively! What torment, to have your thinking and your phantasy tied down by another person!