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

If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me

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.

Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like.

Is it against the law to kill a reporter?

I'd like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.

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