You must not let your opponent know how you feel.

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

There is no doubt that the reason for my awful oversight was over-confidence that sapped my sense of danger. So that is where to look for the cause of bad blunders - in the exulting feeling of self-congratulation.

I cannot think that a player genuinely loving the game can get pleasure just from the number of points scored no matter how impressive the total. I will not speak of myself, but for the masters of the older generation, from whose games we learned, the aesthetic side was the most important. -

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

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

The masters and grandmasters can be divided into three groups - the inveterate time trouble merchants, those who sometimes get into trouble, and those for whom the phenomenon is a very rare occurence.