When I win, I'll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I'll give players a chance to beat me.

When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties - before he died in the early forties. They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.

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.

He is the so-called father of the modern school of chess; before him, the King was considered a weak piece and players set out to attack the King directly. Steinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory.

Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.

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