I didn't picture myself as even a grandmaster, to say nothing of aspiring to the chess crown. This was not because I was timid - I wasn't - but because I simply lived in one world, and the grandmasters existed in a completely different one. People like that were not really even people, but like gods or mythical heroes.

Blunders rarely travel alone.

The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this.

Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths.

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

In Kansas I have a chess school.

Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.