Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

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.

Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position

My studies with Botvinnik brought me immense benefit, particularly the homework assignments which forced me to refer to chess books and to work independently.

'Rubberneck' has nothing to do with comedy, nor does it follow comedic people.

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

In Kansas I have a chess school.