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.

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

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

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

The retreat of a minor piece to the back rank, where it cuts the lines of communication between the rooks, is permissable only in exceptional cases.

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.

Psychology is the most important factor in chess.