Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?

Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.

People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.

I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.

There's no one alive I can't beat.

All I ever want to do is just play chess.

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.