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.

There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player

Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others.

But the thing that was great about Capablanca was that he really spoke his mind, he said what he believed was true, he said what he felt. He [Capablanca] wanted to change the rules [of chess] already, back in the twenties, because he said chess was getting played out. He was right. Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorisation and prearrangement. It's a terrible game now. Very uncreative.

I add status to any tournament I attend.