Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.

The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.

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.

When you have finished analyzing all the variations and gone along all the branches of the tree of analysis you must first of all write the move down on your score sheet, before you play it.

You must not let your opponent know how you feel.

Time trouble is blunder time.

After a great deal of discussion in Soviet literature about the correct definition of a combination, it was decided that from the point of view of a methodical approach it was best to settle on this definition - A combination is a forced variation with a sacrifice.