I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.

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

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

Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.

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 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.