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

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

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

Once in a Moscow chess club I saw how two first-category players knocked pieces off the board as they were exchanged, so that the pieces fell onto the floor. It was as if they were playing skittles and not chess!

Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!

It is better to follow out a plan consistently even if it isn't the best one than to play without a plan at all. The worst thing is to wander about aimlessly.

If you can play the first ten or fifteen moves in just as many minutes, you can be in a state of bliss for the rest of the game. If, on the other hand, Bronstein thinks for forty minutes about his first move, then time trouble is inevitable.