Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something

Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others.

I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.

As Olafsson showed me, White can win... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.

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

Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.

In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory. So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn't do well. They'd get bad openings.