My sister bought me a set at a candy store and taught me the moves.

Patzer sees a check, gives a check.

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

I don't remember one thing I learned in school.

For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I want you to do it again.

But the thing that was great about Capablanca was that he really spoke his mind, he said what he believed was true, he said what he felt. He [Capablanca] wanted to change the rules [of chess] already, back in the twenties, because he said chess was getting played out. He was right. Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorisation and prearrangement. It's a terrible game now. Very uncreative.

I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.