There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.

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

The Russians have fixed world chess.

I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess

The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.

There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.

For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I want you to do it again.