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

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.

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.

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.

Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.

I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.

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.