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.

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?

I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.

They're lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They're a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.

Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it