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

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

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.

During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk

I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own powers arising out of his overwhelming victory in New York, 1927, and his underestimation of mine.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic

During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.