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.

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

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 fact that a player is very short of time is to my mind, as little to be considered as an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.

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

Chess is a matter of vanity.

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.