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

I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.

Playing black, I put great stake in the Ruy Lopez: I liked it, feel it, and understand it; in matches with Hjartarson and Timman it served me well. - on preparing for World Championship versus Garry Kasparov

I still remember Botvinnik's reaction to each of my games, right from the opening moves. At first he would express amazement, then annoyance, and, finally irritation.

Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.

No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that

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