Style? I have no style.

But how difficult it can be to gain the desired full point against an opponent of inferior strength, when this is demanded by the tournament position!

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.

Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so you must have very strong nervous system and then you must be well prepared, you must be able to work a lot.

I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.

By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.

It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.