All candidate moves should be identified at once and listed in one's head. This job cannot be done piecemeal, by first examining one move and then look at another.

My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory.

You must not let your opponent know how you feel.

Here is a definition which correctly reflects the course of thought and action of a grandmaster: - The plan in a game of chess is the sum total of successive strategical operations which are each carried out according to separate ideas arising from the demands of the position.

In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only.

The study of typical plans is something that the leading grandmasters devote a great deal of time to. I would say that the most far-seeing of them devote as much time to this as to the study of openings.

The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess.