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

I'm not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn't changed me.

They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.

I think it's almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.

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.

When I won the World Championship in '72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.